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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 .
When Winter the dolphin died Thursday at age 16, fans from Tampa Bay and beyond took to social media to honor her. Some recounted visits to see Winter at the Clearwater aquarium, others were ...
Winter is gone, but her impact on Clearwater Marine Aquarium is forever. Just look around. When staff rescued the baby bottlenose dolphin from a crab trap in Cape Canaveral in late 2005, revenues ...
The Tampa Bay Times (at the time the St. Petersburg Times) published a 4-part series in 2008 that chronicled the rescue of an injured baby dolphin. The dolphin had been caught in a crab trap and ...
The park's first dolphins, four bottlenose dolphins captured nearby in the Gulf of Mexico, were housed at a motel pool for training. They were moved to Gulf World in the spring of 1970. [2] Gulf World Marine Park opened to the public on Memorial Day of 1970. In 2000, the park underwent an expansion. [3]
Rescued as a calf in 2005, Winter was one of the first dolphins to have been fitted with a prosthetic tail after losing it due to entanglement in a crab trap. The aquarium is also home to other dolphins, otters, pelicans, nurse sharks, and turtles among several species of fish and other marine life.
A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies died Thursday evening at a Florida aquarium despite life-saving efforts to treat a gastrointestinal ...
Winter, the bottlenose dolphin notable for her prosthetic tail (whose story was featured in the film Dolphin Tale and the sequel Dolphin Tale 2) was rescued from Mosquito Lagoon in December 2005. In recent years the Mosquito lagoon has experienced several algal blooms, called "brown tides", that have resulted in extensive fish kills.