Sea patrol members, fishery officers and the police in San Teodoro town in Oriental Mindoro rescued a dolphin stranded in the town poblacion at around 2 p.m. Thursday and was able to release it back to deep waters two hours later, a fishery officer said. Weak and with wounds on its dorsal fin, the dolphin, which measures 2.5 meters and is known as a Risso’s Dolphin, was found near the shore in the poblacion, said Rhodora Ramiento, agricultural technologist of the Provincial Agriculture Office–Fisheries and Coastal Resource Management Division (Pago-FCRMD). Ramiento said the dolphin was found by the municipal police, sea patrol member Terence Panado, and Jacinto Abdon, officer in charge of the municipal Fishery Management Office.

Virola, M. (2010, September 4). Dolphin rescued, released in Mindoro. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A14.