Bottlenose dolphins Ariel and Turbo arrived at Guatemala's Manabique Point this past week and began the rehabilitation process that will lead them back to a life of freedom in their home waters, announced the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
According to the WSPA team that rescued, transported and now will rehabilitate Ariel and Turbo, the dolphins seem thrilled with their new surroundings and are actively exploring the sea pen that serves as their temporary home, chasing fish and communicating with wild dolphins in the area.
Safely packed in transport boxes filled with ice and water to keep them cool and comforted by the WSPA team, Ariel and Turbo were loaded on to a military transport plane in Guatemala City for the first leg of their trip to Puerto Barrios, on the Caribbean coast.
OperationAriel was the name given to the World War II evacuation of French and British forces from western France following the collapse of this country by the invasion by Nazi Germany.
OperationAriel commanded by Admiral James C-inC, Portsmouth Command began on June 14 being conducted from the ports of Cherbourg and St Malo, ending on June 25, 1940 in accordance with the armistice terms signed by the French Government.
OperationAriel was less desperate in some ways, and less well known, than the earlier heavy fighting around Dunkirk during the German invasion in 1940 (when a lull in the fighting allowed an unexpectedly large number of French and British soldiers to escape to Britain).
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