In late 2019, people started calling the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network to report seeing a dolphin that they thought might be trapped. Day after day, this dolphin was spotted in the same isolated cove area on North Padre Island in Texas. It was, well, an odd place for a dolphin to be.
The Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network sent a team to check out the dolphin in April 2020 and found that it was behaving normally. “It was feeding on its own, it was showing boat avoidance, and it was definitely acting the way