A rescued juvenile dolphin is thriving a year being airlifted from Texas to the Florida Keys. The dolphin was suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration.
"Dolphins are very social; they live in a family, they depend on that family even to learn how to catch fish," said Linda Erb, the Dolphin Research Center’s vice president of animal care and training."Without a mom, without a family, this little guy would have starved — he would not have known how to be a wild dolphin."
Erb said her team’s primary goal has been to make sure that Ranger, now about 3 years old, learned to socialize with otherat the center after his release from a necessary five-week quarantine in a medical pool. "The Ranger that was living in our med pool is a different dolphin than the Ranger living out here now today," Erb said."He is fully adapted into the family and has surrogate moms that help take care of him. He has buddies that he plays with."
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