In another time, Winter the dolphin would have been forced to toss beachballs, play a toy piano with her snout and leap over limbo poles suspended in the air, all for the gawking amusement of tourists.
But Winter, who died this week after 16 years in captivity at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, arrived in a more enlightened age, when public indignation at the exploitation of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins was beginning to percolate.
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