A dolphin washed up about 30 miles upstream on the River Thames may have had an infection.
Scientists are carrying out tests on the short-beaked common dolphin after officials from the Port of London Authority found its body on the river in Wandsworth on Tuesday morning.
The so-called Thames Dolphin was spotted at the end of last month near Putney Bridge and became a minor celebrity on social media. It had swum more than 30 miles up the Thames and was photographed at several locations by observers including two public school rowing clubs and the marine division of the Metropolitan police.
The “Thames dolphin” — a short-beaked common dolphin — was first spotted at Putney Bridge
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Specialists at the Zoological Society of London’s Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme said that it had been too weak to refloat itself and that it