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Winter (c. October 2005 – November 11, 2021) was a bottlenose dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida, United States, and was widely known for having a prosthetic tail. Winter was the subject of the 2009 book Winter's Tale , the 2011 film Dolphin Tale , and its 2014 sequel .
It is also known by the name susu (popular name) also shihu (Assamese: শিহু) in Assam and shushuk (Bengali: শুশুক) in West Bengal and Bangladesh. [5] The Ganges river dolphin has been recognized by the Government of India as its National Aquatic Animal [ 6 ] and is the official animal of the Indian city of Guwahati . [ 7 ]
The successful creation of an artificial tail fluke is the first time a full prosthetic tail has been created for a dolphin. [16] Carroll and Strzempka worked with a chemical engineer to develop WintersGel, a new material that would disperse pressure evenly onto the dolphin's skin. [17]
[12] In 2006, prosthetist and Hanger Clinic's Vice President of Lower Extremity Prosthetics, Kevin Carroll, proposed a prosthetic tail for Winter. [13] During the research and design process, considerations were made regarding Winter's spinal movements, her aquatic environment, and her jumps above the water's surface. [ 13 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... an ancient Tamil grammar. ... in March 2019 with the release of version 12.0. The Unicode block for Tamil Supplement is U+ ...
A. H. Arden, A progressive grammar of the Tamil language, 5th edition, 1942. Schiffman, Harold F. (1998). A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 20– 21. ISBN 978-0-521-64074-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 April 2024. Lehmann, Thomas. A Grammar of Modern Tamil. Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics ...
South Asian river dolphins are toothed whales in the genus Platanista, which inhabit the waterways of the Indian subcontinent.They were historically considered to be one species (P. gangetica) with the Ganges river dolphin and the Indus river dolphin being subspecies (P. g. gangetica and P. g. minor respectively).
According to a study in 1971, Peale's dolphin and the Cephalorhynchus species are the only dolphins that do not whistle (no acoustic data are available for the hourglass dolphin). Peale's dolphin also shares with several Cephalorhynchus species the possession of a distinct white "armpit" marking behind the pectoral fin.