Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer

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Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer
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Couldn't it have washed ashore and then someone used it as target practice? Artical says gunshots happened near the time of death.

The authorities likely checked the dolphin's internal temperature to figure out time of death. And if the wounds had been hemorrhaging = the dolphin was alive when it was shot.

This is the same way authorities figure out when a person died and if injuries occured before or after death.

Artical says gunshots happened near the time of death.

Well yeah... gunshot wounds and death tend to be highly correlated.