A young dolphin has died of suspected dehydration after being paraded around like a trophy and stroked by a crowd of sunbathers who then abandoned it on the sand.
The group of people huddled around the mammal taking selfies after it was found on the Argentine beach resort of Santa Teresita in the north-eastern Buenos Aires Province.
Dozens of people crowded round to look at the squirming calf as they strained to touch it, and have their photos taken with it.
The La Plata dolphin - also known as the Franciscana dolphin can live to be twenty years old.
The last tragic images show the body, abandoned on the sand, as people continue to take pictures.