Mysterious deaths of dolphins linked to climate change

Kate Robb, who heads the Marine Mammal Foundation's research center in Australia, has teamed up with

wildlife veterinary pathologist PadraigDuignan, who worked at the University of Melbourne's veterinary school, and Nahiid Stevens, a veterinary pathologist at Murdoch University, who is studying similar dolphin deaths in Western Australia to try to solve the mysterious dolphin deaths.

According to scientists, the dolphins died due to the fact that their habitat became desalinated.

More than ten years after the massacredolphins in 2007, a group of scientists published an article in the journal Nature Scientific Reports that linked the death of dolphins due to freshwater skin disease to climate change.

By the way, fresh water is the reasonfatal skin ulcers not only in dolphins, but also in whales. The new study provides more evidence for freshwater-related deaths in dolphins. In addition, scientists were able to prove that the increase in the number of extreme weather events due to climate change has led to the fact that populations of dolphins enter more fresh water.

Originally biologists, ecologists and pathologistsThe bacterial or viral nature of fatal skin ulcers was suspected, but this assumption turned out to be erroneous. Scientists noted that dolphins are able to tolerate changes in the salinity range, but fluctuations caused by climate change were too severe.

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