Saturday, November 20
We will pour thousands of dollars of money into fitting a dolphin with a fake fin, but a couple thousands people in Africa with no food or 35 cents a day for medicine? Nah.. WE GOTTA HAVE THAT DOLPHIN
Yahoo! News - Disabled dolphin jumping again with world's first artificial fin
TOKYO (AFP) - Fuji, a mother dolphin that lost 75 percent of her tail due to a mysterious disease, is jumping once again with the help of what is believed to be the world's first artificial fin.
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Fuji initially rejected the artificial fin, which in its current version weighs two kilograms (4.4 pounds) with a width of 48 centimeters (20 inches).
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Bridgestone said the artificial fin was given to the aquarium for free, but that it cost the company about 10 million yen (95,000 dollars).