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The striped dolphin,

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one day when I was starting my survey

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and I was just walking down here and I saw

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something, like just didn't, just

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in the surf a little bit.

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And I was like "What is that?

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It looks like a big fish or something,"

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and I went down and it was a dolphin,

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a striped dolphin.

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And I dragged it out of the

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water and it was beautiful, it was

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perfect -- it was dead --

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but perfect. It had just died

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and I could open its mouth and look at its teeth.

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And so I called

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Jan at the office and she said

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to stay with it, and then we got the

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Marine Mammal Center to come out and

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collect it. But I had, I spent about

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a couple of hours with it because

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we didn't want it to be scavenged.

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It still even had its eyes. It was beautiful

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beautiful animal

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and the Marine Mammal Center came and

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collected but it was so odd because i'm

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sitting on the beach with my dolphin and

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people come up and say "Is that real?"

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It's like "yes, it is, it's dead."

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And then I think the last survey four weeks ago,

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I had a baby harbor porpoise that had

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washed up and that was also fresh dead.

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Tiny, it was like a little little toy.

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It's not, you know, I guess it

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sounds odd to be excited about finding

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these dead things but I, I just feel like

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that's--I'm never going to get close to

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these animals, and this is, you can

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get close to it, with a bird you can look

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at its feathers, you can look at the feather

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pattern, and it's really, it's sad that

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it's dead but it's really wonderful

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to get that close and to examine them.

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So. I like it.