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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 .
To keep the tail's position steady, the gel liner WintersGel was developed. [13] WintersGel is made using silicone, intending to provide comfort while avoiding skin irritation. [13] The suction property of the liner allowed the tail to remain firmly attached to Winter. [13] WintersGel has also been used to treat humans who have prosthetic ...
Winter swimming without her prosthetic tail. Akeakamai, featured in the novel Startide Rising; Davina; Ecco from the video game series Ecco the Dolphin; Fungie; Flipper from the 1963 film of the same name and later film and television series in the same franchise; Hiapo; Hope, featured in the film Dolphin Tale 2; Mitzie, who portrayed Flipper ...
The prosthetic-tailed dolphin that starred in the “Dolphin Tale" movies may be fighting a gastrointestinal infection, officials said. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium said in a news release on ...
Winter developed a way to swim without a tail in an unnatural side to side motion, but because this was damaging her spinal cord, a prosthetic tail was made especially for her by Kevin Carroll and a team of experts from Hanger, Inc. Winter starred in the 2011 movie Dolphin Tale and the 2014 sequel Dolphin Tale 2, which was inspired by her story ...
Dolphin Tale (2011) – family drama film inspired by the true story of a bottlenose dolphin named Winter who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where she is fitted with a prosthetic tail [32]
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]
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).