Winter, a 10-month-old bottlenose dolphin that lost her tail in crab trap, may be getting a new one. Clearwater Marine Aquarium is hoping to raise about $100,000 to help pay for a rare operation so Winter can get an artificial tail. She’s learned to swim and play without her tail but instead of swimming up and down like a regular dolphin, she swims from side to side like a shark.
An enraged dolphin has been terrorizing the French Atlantic coast for several weeks, attacking boats and knocking fishermen into the ocean! The dolphin, named Jean Floch, has been a familiar sight along the coast of Brittany since 2002 but recently he’s gone mad!
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Another child was bitten by a dolphin at a SeaWorld Orlando attraction. The 7-year-old boy reached out to pet the dolphin and was bitten on the thumb during his birthday party. The boy has forgiven the mammal. “I still like dolphins,” he said.
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A six-year-old boy said he doesn’t want to see dolphins anymore after being bitten by one at SeaWorld Orlando. The boy’s mother said that while visiting the dolphin-petting attraction Sunday night, the dolphin grabbed Brandon Jackson’s left arm! She had to hit the dolphin’s snout until it let go of the boy’s arm. A SeaWorld spokeswoman said the dolphin would be watched and might be retrained in a “behavioral-modification” program. The family was given a private dolphin viewing and four tickets for a return visit. Like they really wanna go back…
Thanks Stacy!
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A bottlenose dolphin was spotted swimming in the Raritan River in NJ Friday afternoon. Rescue crews tried to steer the dolphin back toward the Ocean, but were forced to give up when it got dark. Good luck, lost dolphin!
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Cindy the dolphin, who grabbed headlines after British millionaire Sharon Tendler married him last year, died on Sunday! Apparently, he had some kind of eating disorder… Sometimes he didn’t eat at all and he vomited a lot. (Being a dude and having the name “Cindy” wouldn’t sit too well with me either.) Cindy was given a proper burial at sea.
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Jessica Alba is apparently so hot, she even gets dolphins horny. The actress discovered that the mammals got “aroused” by her presence when she was shooting Flipper. She told MTV: “I don’t know if anybody knows this but dolphins get excited, even when you are a human being – and they have long, long… (penises). After being poked by a few of them she requested female dolphins only.
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The Minnesota Zoo has lost another dolphin. “Rio,” the zoo’s oldest female dolphin, died Monday night. Rio was 35. R.I.P. Rio!
Harley, Minnesota Zoo’s newest dolphin, died Saturday afternoon after jumping out of his pool and fracturing his head on the concrete deck! Poor Harley was only 7 months old.
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