Humans & Dolphins
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Fuji, the Dolphin with a Rubber Tail For decades, Fuji the dolphin had delighted children visiting an aquarium in Okinawa until a mysterious disease began eating away her tail fin. To save her life, almost all her tail fin had to be amputated.
Incredible Animal Prosthetics
Undertoad Thursday Dec 14 12:07 PM December 14, 2006: Dolphins saved by world's tallest man Veterinarians at the oceanarium in Fushun, China had a problem. Two of their dolphins had taken up the habit of eating pieces of plastic off the edge of their pool. And some of the pieces were so large they couldn't be digested.
Dolphin Saved by World's Tallest Man
We are getting rumbling rumours of a second sei whale stranding (no jokes about buses please), this time in Scotland. There was definitally a stranding yesterday but the species ID is a little uncertain. Details are all a bit vague, but I believe it was a live stranding that unfortunately died.
Whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings