Record 1,100 Dolphins Wash up on French Shores This Year

Record 1,100 Dolphins Wash up on French Shores This Year
A dead dolphin lies on a shore of Atlantic coast of west France, on Feb. 10 2019. Helene Peltier, Observatoire Pelagis/CNRS/Universite de la Rochelle via AP
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PARIS, France—The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off.

But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t just the brutality of the deaths of these highly intelligent mammals, but also the numbers involved—a record 1,100 have washed up on France’s Atlantic coast since January.