Baby dolphin overheats and dies as tourists take it out of ocean for selfies

Horrible.

Selfie-crazed tourists are responsible for the death of a baby dolphin in Argentina.

The young animal was picked up after it washed up on an Argentinian beach, but instead of returning the dolphin to the sea, the poor thing was passed around a mob hungry for photos with the sea mammal.

The beach at a popular Santa Teresita resort was not short of tourists and soon the animal overheated and died.

The baby dolphin was then discarded on the beach while beach-goers continued to take photos of the dead animal.

Local animal charities have said the dolphin was of the Franciscan variety, which is a rare species in danger of extinction.

There are only 30,000 of these dolphins left in the world.

International organisation Peta was outraged by the tragedy asking people to imagine the trauma experienced by the young animal in its final moments as it was roughly manhandled and passed around for selfies.