The dolphin found dead in Astoria exhibited signs of blunt force trauma consistent with a boat strike, as assessed by a necropsy. Experts suggested that the dolphin, suffering from kidney stones and renal failure, was potentially compromised and thus more vulnerable to colliding with the vessel. Though the necropsy indicated that the traumas may have caused death, verification awaits further pathology results. The animal displayed signs of feeding prior to death, indicating it was not in a complete state of decline at the time.
The fact that there's evidence of the blunt force trauma, I would lean towards that this happened before the animal died ... until we get the pathology report, we wouldn't say anything definite.
The renal failure looks like that was something that was ongoing a lot longer. The blunt force and sharp force trauma is something that's more acute because the animal was feeding, but what was the animal operating at optimum efficiency?
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