Officials say a rescued juvenile dolphin that was airlifted from Texas to the Florida Keys about one year ago is thriving.
In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Linda Erb, vice president of animal care and training at Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, greets bottlenose dolphins Ranger, left, and Gypsi, right, at DRC Monday, March 27, 2023, in Marathon, Fla. Ranger, now three years old, was airlifted to the Florida Keys one year ago from Texas, after being discovered stranded in waters around Goose Island State Park suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration.
The National Marine Fisheries Service chose the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida, as Ranger’s permanent home after he was temporarily cared for at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. Erb said her team’s primary goal has been to make sure that Ranger, now about 3 years old, learned to socialize with other dolphins in a natural lagoon at the center after his release from a necessary five-week quarantine in a medical pool.
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