Dolphin with a prosthetic Bashny.Net

Being still young, dolphin Winter lost her own tail, landed in a poaching trap for crabs. It is depleted dolphin found three rescuers and taken to the Florida Aquarium in Clearwater Marine, known for its excellent veterinary base ...
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More than four months a team of 150 doctors and rescue volunteers treated Winter. Her breeding and fattening milk mixture and rubbed fish.
Delphine crippled tail had to be amputated, otherwise the animal did not survive. But the move, all the relatives - up and down - Winter could not, and helplessly swaying from side to side. Therefore, veterinarians decided to make an artificial tail for Winter.

The history of salvation Winter shown on television channel NBC, CNN, BBC, after which it became a symbol of blagotvoritelnti. Vice-president of proteziologii Company "Hanger" Kevin Carol offered to make prosthesis for a dolphin - in fact before the company's specialists have successfully made artificial limbs for dogs and even birds. But to develop an artificial tail in this case it turned out to be much harder than expected - to work took almost half a year. Dolphin fin must be bent freely in all directions, be a continuation of the spine.



 - This dolphin is Winter, we never had - said Dana Zucker, managing Clearwater Marine Aquarium. - We saved her, and she, in turn, has taught us a great deal. She is very sociable, and without people bored.

Delfiniha Winter helps people by the fact of their salvation. Designed for her prosthetic material is now used for prostheses, which put Iraq veterans - many have very sensitive wounds that inflame the use of other prosthetic devices, but do not gel. ABC's told a touching story about a 12-year-old boy who lost his leg due to illness, which is shy to wear his prosthesis. After he had seen with Winter, everything changed ... (just a few years, such cases were a lot of care for children)



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