Dolphin died ‘after eating rubber’

A RARE dolphin that starved to death had part of an old rubber glove in its stomach.

The Risso’s dolphin – known for its distinctive ‘smirk’ – was the first of its kind washed up in the southern North Sea since the 1960s. It was found dead in Great Yarmouth on May 12. Tests showed it had ingested part of a rubber glove. Rob Deaville, a marine biologist, said stranding then starvation was the ‘most significant factor’ in its death and that the glove in its gut was ‘interesting but incidental’.