Hurricane Katrina--RESCUE SET FOR DOLPHINS

Excerpted from Reuters Alert Net--

Source: Reuters
HOUSTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Wildlife experts will try to rescue eight bottlenose dolphins swept from their aquarium home into the Mississippi Sound by Hurricane Katrina, a federal agency said on Wednesday.

The dolphins were spotted in the sound off the Mississippi coast on Saturday and appeared to be underweight and injured, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service said.

Because they lived in captivity in the Marine Life Aquarium in Gulfport, Mississippi, they do not know how to forage for food and are being fed several times a day from a NOAA vessel.

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