Abstract. [Purpose, Case, and Methods] A female bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in captivity developed necrosis of the tail flukes. Although the diseased site healed after surgical resection, the loss of approximately 75% of the tail greatly affected her swimming performance. To restore swimming ability, we developed artificial tail flukes as a prosthetic swimming aid and provided physical therapy that included swimming training from postop-erative day 1 to day 1427. [Results] The prosthetic enabled the dolphin to recover swimming ability almost to the level prior to disease onset, but even acquire applied movement, and reestablish social relationships, thus greatly improving the animal’s quality of life. [Conclusion] The results cl...
n order for captive Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to stay healthy and happy, it is important that the...
Cetacean research is crucially aided by stranding programs, such as the Scottish Marine Animal Stran...
How do mammals manage to live underwater? To us their environment presents many challenges: it is of...
Environmental enrichment is a key component in improving the psychological and physiological well-be...
1noThe rate of Dolphin-Assisted Therapies and Activities has significantly increased over the last t...
Together with PAXARMS (NZ), we developed a biopsy system for small cetaceans and tested it on four p...
Enrichment programs may contribute to the quality of life and stress reduction in bottlenose dolphin...
Cognitive enrichment is gaining popularity as a tool to enhance captive animal well-being, but resea...
In the summer 2014, a male juvenile live striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) was stranded alive ...
Cetacean biopsy sampling is a widely used technique with undisputable scientific value. Although it ...
Dolphin-Assisted Therapy (DAT) is an increasingly popular choice of treatment for illness and develo...
A dolphin Sousa chinensis mfiasuring 2.3 m was accidentally got entangled in a gill net set oiT Cal...
1Since the 1970s, new therapeutic practices, involving the interaction between humans and dolphins ...
This study will help to clarify how interactions with dolphins affect people. It examines human well...
The article is dedicated to one of the methods of animal-assisted therapy, which is dolphin therapy ...
n order for captive Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to stay healthy and happy, it is important that the...
Cetacean research is crucially aided by stranding programs, such as the Scottish Marine Animal Stran...
How do mammals manage to live underwater? To us their environment presents many challenges: it is of...
Environmental enrichment is a key component in improving the psychological and physiological well-be...
1noThe rate of Dolphin-Assisted Therapies and Activities has significantly increased over the last t...
Together with PAXARMS (NZ), we developed a biopsy system for small cetaceans and tested it on four p...
Enrichment programs may contribute to the quality of life and stress reduction in bottlenose dolphin...
Cognitive enrichment is gaining popularity as a tool to enhance captive animal well-being, but resea...
In the summer 2014, a male juvenile live striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) was stranded alive ...
Cetacean biopsy sampling is a widely used technique with undisputable scientific value. Although it ...
Dolphin-Assisted Therapy (DAT) is an increasingly popular choice of treatment for illness and develo...
A dolphin Sousa chinensis mfiasuring 2.3 m was accidentally got entangled in a gill net set oiT Cal...
1Since the 1970s, new therapeutic practices, involving the interaction between humans and dolphins ...
This study will help to clarify how interactions with dolphins affect people. It examines human well...
The article is dedicated to one of the methods of animal-assisted therapy, which is dolphin therapy ...
n order for captive Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to stay healthy and happy, it is important that the...
Cetacean research is crucially aided by stranding programs, such as the Scottish Marine Animal Stran...
How do mammals manage to live underwater? To us their environment presents many challenges: it is of...