In this file photo, a pair of dolphins are shown at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 | 2:47 p.m.
The Mirage reported today that one of the bottlenose dolphins at its dolphin habitat died last week.
Beetle, a 12-year-old male dolphin, died Oct. 27 from unknown causes. Pathology specialists are looking into the cause of death, the resort said.
Beetle had lived at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat since spring 2010.
“We will all miss Beetle very much,” Trevor Scherrer, the Mirage’s president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
In the wild, dolphins can live for 40 to 50 years. In captivity, the average lifespan is about 24 years.
The last dolphin death at the habitat occurred in 2009, when 2-year-old Sgt. Pepper died from complications from a lung infection.
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