{"id":4839,"date":"2016-10-04T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.loroparque.com\/?p=4839&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-09-07T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T10:20:13","slug":"spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirtle The Dolphin Was Spotted Speeding To Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Original article: <a href=\"http:\/\/awesomeocean.com\/2016\/09\/28\/spirtle-the-dolphin-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\">Spirtle The Dolphin Was Spotted Speeding To Recovery<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scotland isn\u2019t exactly the first place a person thinks of when worrying about getting a sunburn. However, a dolphin affectionately known as \u201cSpirtle\u201d has proved that sunburns can happen anywhere and on any animal. And we\u2019re talking about a really bad sunburn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spirtle was first spotted in May, while stranded on a large expanse of tidal mudflats near Aberdeen, Scotland. The bottlenose dolphin, after being stuck in the sun for nearly a day, was rescued and refloated. It took a group effort thanks to a team of multiple organizations, including British Divers Marine Life Rescue, the Scottish SPCA and staff from North 58 Sea Adventures. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/awesomeocean.com\/2016\/07\/26\/dolphins-can-get-sunburned-badly\/\">full story<\/a> covering the rescue here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog.jpg\" alt=\"spritles-sunburn_blog\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog-410x230.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog-270x152.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dolphin skin is crucial in their ability to efficiently swim at high speeds. SeaWorld describes their skin as soft and rubbery and it has evolved into a texture that reduces extra drag. They shed their outer skin every two hours in order to keep their skin in prime streamlined condition. In recent years, researchers have noticed that sunburns on cetaceans have been increasing, as noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2010\/11\/whales-get-sunburns-too\">Science magazine<\/a>. Many are attributing this trend to the reduction of the ozone layer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the stranding, Spirtle was already apart of a group of 200 animals that were being monitored and observed by scientists from the University of Aberdeen. Shortly after the rescue, Spirtle was counted as M.I.A. until the later part of July. BBC notes that scientists were actually skeptical that she would survive her serious injury. When she was seen again, researchers were excited to report that she was showing positive signs towards a full recovery. Her most recent sighting was in mid September, when she was seen babysitting her sister\u2019s calf. Spirtle is easily recognizable because of her severe wound, so there was no doubt that the bottlenose dolphin was her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers are very encouraged by the fact that the wound seems to be healing well and shows no signs of infection. They are hopeful that she will make a full recovery and will eventually even go on to breed and raise little ones of her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article: Spirtle The Dolphin Was Spotted Speeding To Recovery Scotland isn\u2019t exactly the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spirtle The Dolphin Was Spotted Speeding To Recovery &#8226; Loro Parque<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All the latest news and news of interest about Loro Parque in our blog, visit us and don&#039;t miss anything!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Loro Parque en redes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Loro Parque, embajada animal referente de conservaci\u00f3n y protecci\u00f3n de especies en Tenerife y el mejor zoo moderno del mundo por Tripadvisor.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Loro Parque\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/loroparque\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-04T13:27:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-07T10:20:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loro Parque\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@loroparque\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@loroparque\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Loro Parque\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2c03774d1d305dab72587f82a2fcdacf\"},\"headline\":\"Spirtle The Dolphin Was Spotted Speeding To Recovery\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-04T13:27:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-07T10:20:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\"},\"wordCount\":373,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Spritles-Sunburn_blog.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog English\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/spirtle-the-dolphin-was-spotted-speeding-to-recovery\/\",\"name\":\"Spirtle The Dolphin Was Spotted Speeding To Recovery &#8226; 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