Cape Cod’s unique hook-shaped coastline may have something to do with the strandings, the organization said. The peninsula “sees more incidents of live-stranded dolphins than anywhere else in the world, and 2024 continues to be a historic high.”

Animal rescue teams say 2024 has seen a record-high number of dolphin strandings. Ten were saved this weekend, but six did not survive.

The IFAW said its stranding hotline started getting calls Saturday morning reporting multiple dolphins found stranded on beaches in Brewster, Dennis, Eastham, Wellfleet, and Orleans.

A pair of dolphins died in a series of strandings in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, this weekend, while a dozen other dolphins were saved on Cape Cod, wildlife rescuers said Monday.