Mumbai: Six-feet-long dolphin washes ashore Worli seaface

The sad tale of dead dolphins being washed ashore Mumbai's coastline continues, as another carcass was found along the Worli seaface on Saturday morning.

According to the Mangrove Cell of the state forest department, the six-feet-long dead mammal was spotted afloat by joggers in the waters hugging the south Mumbai shore at around 9am.

Tides swept the rotting carcass on the rocky shoreline in the wee hours, after which civic conservancy workers hauled it outside the waters.

The carcass measured around two metres in length and weighed around 145-50 kg.

A team of two veterinary doctors, from the Parel-based Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA), carried out the necropsy on the dolphin - to determine the cause of death.

"The dolphin seems to have died, almost 9-10 days back in deeper waters of the Arabian sea. Almost 90 per cent of the skin has peeled off and its bloated internals are spilling from its mouth," a veterinary doctor told iamin.

He added that, as most of the internal organs had autolysed, a forensic examination of the viscera would only help determine the unexplained death.

The discovery of this dolphin comes almost two weeks after a mammoth 24-feet-long Whale Shark was found in waters near Palghar, in Thane district, on 4 March this year.