Scores of Pacific Coast marine animals — including whales, dolphins, sea lions and pelicans — are falling ill, becoming aggressive, and even dying due to a particularly toxic bloom this year.
The victims include “an unprecedented number of dolphins” washing ashore, scientists told KABC-TV.
“It’s the worst we’ve ever seen here in Southern California on many different fronts, but dolphin strandings, it’s unprecedented,” according to John Warner, CEO of the Marine Mammal Care Center in Los Angeles.
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The animals are suffering from domoic acid toxicity due to an algae bloom that has been getting worse for several years.
Not only is the algae killing animals up and down the southern California coast, the potent neurotoxin causes many of them to exhibit unusually aggressive behavior.
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