(CNN) A new video has surfaced showing the confusion surrounding the health of a rare La Plata dolphin being taken out of the water by beach-goers in Argentina earlier this month. The video shows some in the crowd saying the dolphin was dead while others called for it to be returned to the ocean.
Vida Silvestre, a wildlife foundation in Argentina, reported that one dolphin died after a group of beach-goers took it out of the ocean, then surrounded and handled it.
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Sky News obtained video of a person removing a dolphin from the water in Santa Teresita, a coastal town about 350 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires, and beachgoers took photos of a dolphin that appears to have been left to die in the sand.
It is unclear why the dolphin was initially removed from the water, and the new video cuts off after the dolphin is laid on the sand and people are patting it.
The Argentine wildlife organization released a statement urging people to return the dolphins to sea if they come across them.
"It is vital that people help to rescue these animals, because every Franciscan counts," they wrote.
The sea mammal, which typically shies away from humans, is found mostly in the waters of the Rio de La Plata and the Atlantic coast between Argentina and Uruguay, and has also been seen off the shores of Brazil.
In 2010, researcher Alexandra Swanson set up 225 camera traps across the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
The traps were set up over 1,000 kilometers of the park.
Swanson wanted to see how different carnivores interacted with lions.
"I wanted to see how large carnivores share the landscape and how they coexist with lions, because lions interact aggressively with the smaller guys."
The project is the largest camera tracking survey to date.
Swanson collected over 1.2 million animal "selfies" as part of the project.
Around 40,000 volunteers (many without a science background) helped sort through the image data on Zooniverse, an online platform for citizen science projects.
One thing Swanson discovered from the research was how cheetahs, hyenas and jackals share the same landscape with lions without getting injured.
She discovered that large carnivores treat the area like a 'timeshare', often visiting certain habitat hotspots (those with ample water and shade) in turns.
Sometimes, she'd see carnivores taking turns at eating the same carcass.
The data, she says, is also giving scientists a more complete view of the great wildebeest migration that takes place every year.
"On a much finer scale, though, we don't understand how they make their decisions movement to movement. By combining the camera trap data with rainfall data, we are trying to map that migration in more detail and understand why they do this on any given day," she says.
The Zooniverse volunteers, she notes, were able to classify animals in the photos with 97% accuracy.
The same image would be sent out to several volunteers. If everyone correctly identified an animal, she says chances are it was a correct identification.
If there was disagreement about what type of animal was in a photo, that was usually a good indicator that an expert needed to look at the photo.
The camera research provides a much more complex picture than traditional radio collars, she says.
The La Plata dolphin was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species after hundreds of them were caught annually in fishermen gillnets in the 1960s, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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La Plata dolphins -- also known as Franciscan dolphins because their brown-toned skin is reminiscent of the attire of Franciscan monks -- can live up to 20 years, according to NOAA.