Talk:Akeakamai

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I'm curious. In the March 2008 issue of National Geographic it says that Akeakamai, Phoenix and "two others died accidentally four years ago." This article says that Akeamai died of cancer. Which was it? Did the scientists cause the death of this dolphin through an accident or was it disease?

found this: Hiapo, a 20-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin captured as a calf in the Gulf of Mexico, died Monday night of unknown causes. Two others have died in the past four months: Akeakamai died in November and Phoenix last month. Both were 27 and died of cancer. A dolphin's typical life span is 35 or more years.

Questions about the latest death were being referred by the laboratory to University of Hawai'i spokesman Jim Manke, who said Hiapo had a physical as recently as Feb. 19 that pronounced him in "excellent health."

The death was "kind of a mystery," Manke said, and "a surprise to everybody.” Initial tissue samples from a necropsy have shown nothing significant and samples have been sent to the Mainland for further analysis.

The Honolulu Star Bulletin article says this: "Both animals died of cancer that had spread from an oral tumor."

I moved this comment out of the main article. --bainer (talk) 13:08, 6 March 2008 (UTC)