JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Photos of injured dolphins have been filed in the case involving bankrupt dolphin parks i n Florida.
First Coast News has obtained the images of the animals that were allegedly hurt while they were transported from one park to the other in June, according to court records.
Some of the wounds on the dolphins are "deep," according to the USDA, and most are located near or under the pectoral fins.
One man, who is trying to save Marineland from development , says these pictures are a call to action.
"It's disturbing. It's disturbing," Jack Kassewitz, a dolphin researcher, told First Coast News .
Kassewitz says these photos show the dolphins that were transported this summer from the Gulf World park in Panama City Beach to the Dolphin Connection in the Florida

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