Experts were unable to explain the washing ashore of a thousand starving sea-lion pups in California; thousands of dead prawns and crabs in Chile; hundreds of dead puffins in eastern Scotland; hundreds of cormorants, gannets, guillemots, and razorbills, both living and dead, in Cornwall and Devon; five live seals in New Jersey (including one at the Taj Mahal, one at Avalon, and one at Loveladies); and tens of thousands of small fish, twenty-four dolphins, two penguins, and at least one leafy seadragon in South Australia. Scientists remained uncertain whether to blame the recent spike in porpicide in the Gulf…