A viewer spotted the mother pushing her calf through the waters near the Boca Ciega Point community on Sunday evening, and captured the sad spectacle on video.
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it s going to be a few weeks. like i said, it s very difficult right now to get tissues to send to the laboratories. right. so, it s going to be a matter of weeks, possibly even months before the researchers know what s happened. and you know, i should say that in past cases of mass die-offs of dolphins and whales, the investigators have only had about a 50% success rate in determining the cause of these kinds of mass die-offs, so, it s very challenging work. you know, not that much is known about dolphin biology, compared to human biology. and you know, it s going to be hard to connect the oil spill directly to these deaths. i mean, you may be able to find oil in the tissues of these animals, but that doesn t necessarily mean, you know, that you can say that the oil is what caused the mothers to spontaneously abort these fetal dolphins. we ll just have to be patient for the right answers. brian vastag, great to have you on today. thank you, sir. thanks. prince william and ka