Chinese Tourists Snap Selfies with Dying Dolphin

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Tourists who stumbled onto a gravely injured dolphin while swimming off the coast of Sanya City in the Chinese province of Hainan are being blasted on local social networks for manhandling the distressed animal and posing with it for pictures in lieu of alerting wildlife authorities.

The dolphin later died of "excessive bleeding" at a nearby marine park, according to Shanghai Daily. Experts believe the dolphin may have collided with a fishing boat, as evidenced by the injury to its tail.

A group of men who found the stranded dolphin proceeded to lift it out of the water and take photos of themselves, which were later posted to the microblogging service Sina Weibo. Users were outraged, saying the photos, exhibiting a basic disregard for life, shook their faith in China.

The tourists have yet to be identified in the press, but it will unlikely lead to any charges as China does not currently have any laws on the books that protect non-endangered species.

http://gawker.com/chinese-tourists-snap-selfies-with-dying-dolphin-514264840

[dipsydoodle]

1. Sickos

[geek tragedy]

2. The Chinese are driving every species of rhinosceros to extinction, so this

is not surprising behavior.

[datasuspect]

3. basic disregard for life?

huh? in china?

life (and labor) is verrrrry cheap there.

[rrneck]

4. Maybe the Chineese will take the title of "The mose ugly tourist" for a while. nt

[get the red out]

5. Sickening

Completely devoid of any higher thought, or respect for another living thing at all.