ATLANTIS has reported the successful rescue and transport of a beached dolphin from West Andros to the resort's Dolphin Cay for medical care and rehabilitation.

This live stranded dolphin rescue is the first for Dolphin Cay, home to the most advanced marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation centre in the Bahamas and a member of the Bahamas Marine Mammal Stranding Network.

After two members of the Atlantis Dolphin Cay team, staff veterinarian Dr Charles Manire and Jim Horton, were flown to Andros to evaluate the dolphin (named "Miss Turner" after her stranding location - Turner Sound), they were able to determine she was an older female bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) that had ...

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