Three days after a humpback dolphin’s carcass washed up at Cuffe parade, two extra dolphin carcasses had been present in Mumbai, on Thursday.

The carcasses of two ocean humpback dolphins, 4-ft and 5-ft in size, washed ashore at Reti-bunder in Mahim and Haji Ali respectively on Thursday morning. “The reason for the demise can be cleared after the post-mortem,” stated an official from the Mangrove Basis.

Dolphins are endangered aquatic mammals, protected beneath Schedule I of the Wildlife Safety Act, 1972. Within the latest previous, dolphin sightings have elevated alongside the town’s shoreline.

A carcass of a 7-ft humpback dolphin had washed ashore on the seaside in Cuffe Parade on Monday. Following complaints from residents, the vary forest officer and volunteers from the state forest division’s mangrove cell visited the spot. Final July, an 8-ft-long humpback dolphin had washed ashore Bhayander.