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Jul 13, 2008 12:59 pm US/Eastern

Tail-Less Dolphin Fitted For New Bionic Tail

Winter Was Rescued In 2005

Moms and dads know how hard it is to keep up with growing child in clothes and shoes – seems you just find some that fit and they've outgrown them.

Marine biologists are going through the same thing with Winter the tail-less dolphin in Clearwater.

Winter, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, was only about 3 months old only when she was found frail and dehydrated in December 2005. A fisherman found her tangled in the buoy line of a crab trap near Cape Canaveral. The line cut off the blood supply to her tail and it slowly fell off.

After being nursed back to health at a Florida nonprofit marine animal rescue center, Winter was outfitted with a prosthetic tail which would allow her to swim more freely. Winter, who lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, received a prosthesis in October, but she is still growing. Saturday she was fitted for a new tail because she's just about outgrown the one she has now. Every year a she'll need a new prosthesis until she reaches adulthood.

The cost for Winter's prosthetic tails is well over six figures. The company developing the prosthetics is donating all of the expense.

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