About 10:00 am on August 4, 1954, while on a boat patrol in the Everglades National Park in south Florida, district rangers Vincent M. Mrazek and Lyle H. McDowell were passing through the middle of Whitewater Bay near Long Point (lat. 25° 17′, long. 80° 59′). Seeing two bottle-nosed dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) associating in the calm water with a small, whitish, floating object, the rangers circled back to investigate. The dolphins, one of which had been rather continuously bumping the object along with its snout, submerged and disappeared as the boat approached, but when the rangers came to within about 25 feet of the floating object, they discovered it to be the head of a baby dolphin. Its body had been cut away from the head very smoothly, suggesting the bite of a large shark. Having identified the object of the attention of the dolphins, the rangers withdrew 70 …