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More than 100 dolphins, eight marine turtles and five beaked whales
have washed up dead on the windswept beaches of southern Mauritania
in recent days, puzzling scientists and worrying the government.

Experts from the West African country’s Institute of Oceanographic
Research and Fishing visited the scene but were unable to take any
samples because of the advanced state of decay of the corpses, the
government said.

It was the third June in a row that scores of dead marine mammals had
suddenly appeared along the country’s coastline, but authorities
voiced concern at this year’s number of deaths, which included 139
dolphins.