The carcass of a large dolphin was washed up onto one of Salobrena’s beaches yesterday. The Spanish name is delfin calderon but is known as a Risso’s dolphin, (grampus griseus) after the chap who first described them in 1812.

They are big animals, weighing between 300 and 500 kilos and measuring between 3 and 4 metres in length.

The dolphin, which was probably hit by a ship, as its tail was almost severed, was found on the cagailla beach.

Poor sod.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)