Did the remaining five Atlantic bottlenose dolphins make it out to Sandy Hook Bay before their temporary home in the Shrewsbury River froze over?
Two weekly newspapers have accounts in their current issues from witnesses who say they saw the animals swimming from the river into the bay on January 15, before the river froze.
The Monmouth Journal and the Two River Times have similar accounts quoting Jay Cosgrove, co-owner of Bahrs Landing Seafood and Marina in Highlands, and restaurant employees who said the dolphins were leaping and diving as they headed into open waters late that morning.
The dolphins were “jumping right out of the water, like SeaWorld,” Cosgrove tells the Journal.
Employee Maryann Crinigan tells the TRT:
“They were actually doing flips in the water as they were leaving,” Crinigan said. “They looked happy and were very entertaining.”
The restaurant is located just on bay side of the Route 36 bridge that spans the strait between the river and bay.
Teri Frady, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, the federal agency with jurisdiction over the dolphins, says the agency has interviewed one of the witnesses to the apparent departure.
She says, in an email:
At present, the location and condition of 13 of the original 16 animals is unknown. Without confirmed resightings, it is not possible to know if they are alive or dead, still in the river system or elsewhere.
NOAA urges anyone who sees the dolphins, or has seen them since January 13 is urge to
let us know at nj.dolphins@noaa.gov.
see we were just like a bunch of Beny's we came we ate, we played, we f'd with you and then we left…see ya next summer
oh and thanks for all the fish!!!
I wonder if we civilized human species will ever fully recognize that the rest of the animal kingdom can readily take care of themselves.
"Flipper" great Douglas Adams reference (he is truly missed) "Irving place" as a vegetarian I have already taken the first step in "fully recognize that the rest of the animal kingdom" How about you?
Neanderthals drew bison on cave walls. Early homo sapiens tended various flocks. I wonder what the vegan contribution will be many years from now when it is no longer trendy?
As the world's population increases to the point where the amount of resources required to produce meat will be unsustainable, and more and more of the earth's population is forced to get protein from vegetables, the vegan's ingenuity in getting protein from vegetables will benefit everyone.
Hopefully I'll be dead by then, because I can only take so much soy.
Anything new that you know of, John? Thanks!