Animals-especially baby animals-are adorable, but the growing trend of tourists getting far too close in hopes of capturing a viral selfie is troubling to say the least.
Tourists in San Bernardo, Argentina are now being blamed for killing a baby dolphin by failing to return it to the water after it swam ashore this past weekend. La Nacion reported the disturbing incident occurred Sunday when a group of vacationers was attempting to photograph themselves with the animal.
"They let him die," a witness told C5N News. "They could have returned him to the ocean. He was breathing, but everyone started taking photos and touching him, saying he was already dead."
It's unclear whether the dolphin was already ill or if being kept from the ocean was the sole cause of death.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time a tragic dolphin death has been pinned on tourists. Last February, a dolphin died in Santa Teresita, Argentina after a beachgoers removed it from the ocean.
While the tourists were fortunate to come away unscathed in this instance, some foolish travelers haven't been so lucky. Earlier this year a French woman was bitten by a crocodile in Thailand after she tripped while approaching it for a selfie.
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