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Thu Nov-18-04 09:34 AM Original message |
| Disabled dolphin gets new tail |
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 Fuji wears her new tail for 20 minutes a day A disabled dolphin in Japan is able to swim normally and jump again thanks to an artificial tail fin made by a tyre company. Fuji, 34, had three-quarters of her tail amputated in 2002 after suffering from a mystery disease. A veterinarian working with Fuji asked a friend at Bridgestone Corp for help. Ten prototypes were made before the company found one that worked, and it then took Fuji five months to get used to the fin - it initially scared her. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4021993.stm |
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