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PROVINCETOWN, Mass. —

The International Fund for Animal Welfare says nine dolphins were stranded over a two-day period on Cape Cod and that two of them had to be relocated after they ended up swimming close to shore.

According to the IFAW, its marine mammal rescue team responded to Wellfleet Harbor on Monday after the nine Atlantic white-sided dolphins were reported swimming in shallow waters during the early afternoon.

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One of the nine dolphins swam off into deep water, but the remaining eight were stranded and needed to be rescued. The eight dolphins received a health assessment and treatment after they were rescued and released to deeper waters.

On Tuesday, the IFAW said one of the eight stranded dolphins that was released on Monday was stranded early in the morning in Provincetown. The rescue team responded, but the dolphin had refloated. The team then used kayaks to herd the dolphin into an area where they could assess and treat it before it was released to safer waters.

While the IFAW rescue team was helping the stranded dolphin in Provincetown, another one of the dolphins that was stranded in Wellfleet on Monday was seen swimming between the boat slips in Barnstable Harbor on Tuesday. Members of the team used kayaks to herd that dolphin to an area where it could be extracted so that it could be assessed and treated.

At the same team, a second rescue team was responding to reports of a dolphin that was seen swimming close to shore near the Wellfleet Pier at midday Tuesday. The IFAW said that the dolphin is likely the one that did not end up getting stranded in Wellfleet on Monday. The team used kayaks to herd the dolphin close to shore, which allowed staff to extract the animal for assessment and treatment.

The two dolphins that were rescued in Barnstable and Wellfleet on Tuesday were brought together and rode in the IFAW’s custom-built mobile dolphin rescue vehicle to Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, where they were released early Tuesday evening.