Exploding dolphins not the best way to dispose of carcass

A dead dolphin at Broadstrand, Seven Heads, West Cork, carried in on a high tide and now above the tideline, so not likely to be carried out again. It’s a big animal, rotund and heavy. It’s on a popular walking route: what’s to be done?

It will, inevitably, be scavenged by birds, possibly even foxes, but it will make an unsightly picture and an unwelcome smell for some time. One hopes that most walkers will understand that while we enjoy wild creatures in life, we can hardly damn them in death.

What greatly impressed me were the teeth. The serried rows of razor-sharp matching pairs on top and bottom jaws would allow no hope of escape for any creature caught between them. For all their frolics and their human-friendly intercourse, dolphins are deadly hunters.