“This mass stranding comes toward the end of an unprecedented summer for our team due to the sheer number of dolphin strandings. Since the end of June, the team has responded to 175 live stranded dolphins, which is over 2.5 times our annual average,” Kasper said.

Marine rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said this is the largest bottlenose dolphin mass stranding seen in the Northeast. When rescuers arrived, three of the dolphins were dead, but efforts to save the remaining 11 continued in to Tuesday morning.

This summer on Cape Cod has been a record breaking one for the International Fund for Animal Welfare which oversees the rescue of stranded dolphins, including 11 bottlenose dolphins first discovered in muddy flats in Brewster Monday,

Dolphins stranded twice in as many days on Cape Cod. Rescuers say this summer has seen more than double the average number of dolphin strandings.

In the last two weeks alone, IFAW’s Yarmouth-based marine mammal rescue team has responded to 26 stranded dolphins, including 14 stranded bottlenose dolphins in Brewster on Monday. That event marked the largest recorded mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the U.

The British Divers Marine Life Rescue charity issues guidance for what do on finding a beached mammal.

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