The tale of Winter, the dolphin without a tail


	The tale of Winter, the dolphin without a tail

michellezm

8-27-2007 4:33 AM

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dolphins, marine life, the sea, marine animals

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8-27-2007 1:43 PM

bignosemousie

Overcoming adversity!

8-27-2007 7:50 PM

kkcapricorn

Touching.

8-28-2007 3:07 AM

CoviwinklesNo1Fan

Awh.

Thats so sad.

And a big reminder for us all NOT TO POLLUTE!!

*sigh*

Touching.

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</P><P>But Winter, the year-old dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida, is missing a very significant part of her anatomy: a tail.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=477781&in_page_id=1811"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/55565495-75EB-4445-8C45-519B58E417B2" alt="winter the trailless dolphin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=477781&in_page_id=1811"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/D9E09238-62DD-44B5-8BD8-37E5266C5C09" alt="winter the trailless dolphin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=477781&in_page_id=1811"><P>
The young bottlenosed dolphin lost her tail and joint when she was caught in a crab trap near Indian River Lagoon, along Florida's east coast. She was just a baby of three months. 
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The rope wrapped around her tail and cut off the blood supply. "It looked like paper," said Dana Zucker, chief operating officer of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. "Bit by bit over the weeks it just fell off."
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The lack of a tail did not slow the bright dolphin down, however. Instead, Winter simply learned how to swim without  — using a startling combination of moves that resemble an alligator's undulating swimming style and a shark's side-to-side tail swipes. 
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Though flippers are normally employed for steering and braking, Winter uses them to work up momentum.
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