A tail for Winter

Winter is a bottlenose dolphin at the Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida, widely known for having a prosthetic tail.
Winter was found off the coast of Florida in December 2005 (when she was only 2 months old), caught in a crab trap, which resulted in the loss of her tail.
She learnt to swim without tail but this forced her to swim with an unusual movement that would have damaged her spine. Kevin Carroll, who had designed prosthetics for other animals, volunteered to help. It took a year and a half designing and testing a tail for Winter, eventually settling on a simple silicone and plastic tail. A gel-like sleeve was used under the tail, in order to prevent it from irritating Winter's skin. This story led to the film's making "Dolphin Tale".