re: Dolphin found shot to death on beach in Louisiana

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one shot to the head should do the trick.

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Not if someone was trying to send a message.

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Why is this anymore gruesome than shooting say, an armadillo? I get it, it isn't a game animal, they are mammals, and humans have an irrational attachment to some animals over others.

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Intelligence. They're very smart mammals, similar to a chimp. I don't want to kill shoot chimps either. In fact, I think science believes dolphins are the second smartest animal on Earth to humans. That is a level of evolution I feel should be protected more than say, an armadillo's.

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Hard case to solve. They'll need to identify the victim and see if they had any known enemies or someone that wanted to harm them.

Run the bullets for a ballistic match for guns used in other crimes.

Dolphins like to talk, somebody knows something.

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Have they ruled out a triggerfish?

Some idiots just lash out when they run up against superior intellect...

Probably more dolphin on dolphin crime.

I wonder if it was on porpoise?

It was the Japanese.

NGL, I've wanted to do the same a few times trout fishing. Damn things take the trout off your line.