Article: Five-day-old dolphin dies at Brookfield

The Brookfield Zoo's baby bottlenose dolphin died Sunday, five days after birth.

The male calf was the firstborn of 10-year-old Tapeko, who is on breeding loan from Boston's New England Aquarium.

Newborn dolphin mortality is very high - as much as 57 percent in the wild - for calves born to inexperienced mothers. No one knows why, but most firstborn and many second- or third-born calves die, said Mary Burke, manager of the Seven Seas Dolphinarium.

However, zoo officials hoped this one ...

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