Science comes to aid of Winter’s tail

THE news from Florida’s Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action.

However, marine scientist Steve McCulloch immediately saw this rescue was unique. The baby bottlenose dolphin lost her tail, but perhaps her life could be saved.

Mr McCulloch, director of dolphin and whale research at the Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institution, decided to channel his anger into a solution.