Winter's intelligence and perseverance soon make her a cetacean celebrity who even makes the de rigueur personal appearance on The Today Show.īut there is another milestone ahead for this determined dolphin. Marine biologists there, however, despair that a dolphin without a tail can survive without the ability to swim.īut after a few days of recovery, staff scientists see that the dolphin, whom they name Winter for the season of her discovery, is beginning to move around the tank by undulating her body from side to side like a fish. When fishermen find a little dolphin, with her tail irreparably mangled in a trap and barely able to keep her head above water to breathe, they rush to free her and take her to the nearby Clearwater Marine Aquarium for care. Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship was published in the spring of 2006 and became an international phenomonen.This is a story of Winter, a young female bottlenose dolphin who injured and then loses her tail after being entangled in a crab trap.Ī dolphin's very life depends on its ability to move sleekly and swiftly through the water, propelled by up-down movements of its horizontal flukes. Isabella Hatkoff is the co-author of bestselling Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship and Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship with her father, Craig Hatkoff, and ecologist Dr. He lives with his wife and their two daughters in Manhattan. Both Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship and Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship are New York Times bestsellers. The Hatkoffs live in Manhattan.Ĭraig Hatkoff is the co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival and of Turtle Pond Publications. Rescued by a kind shepherd and his family, Leo eventually came to the world-famous Bronx Zoo in New York, the leading experts on caring for and breeding the critically endangered snow leopard.Ĭraig Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, and Juliana Hatkoff are also the authors of Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World and Looking for Miza: The True Story of the Mountain Gorilla Family Who Rescued One of Their Own. When Leo was less than seven weeks old, he became orphaned in the snowy Himalayan mountains in Pakistan.
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