It is very sad to have to write about the death of Penny. She was one of the first dolphins I really got to know. She will always have a special place in my heart. Out of all the deceased dolphins that I have yet known, I knew Penny the best and I knew her the longest. I have so many fond memories of her,and I know so many others do as well (both humans and dolphins). She will be terribly missed. I still get a stabbing feeling at my heart whenever I think of her. Rest in peace Penny. I love you. She will live on in her only offspring Copper.

Name: Penny
Species: Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
Gender: Female
Birth date: 5/6/1989
Death date: 9/12/2004
Birth place: SWC
Mother: Jenny (Discovery Cove)
Father: Stein
Calves: Copper, deceased 1 month old calf
Transfers:
SWC: 5/6/1989- 4/4/2004
Discovery Cove: 4/4/2004-9/12/2004 (date of death)

Penny gave birth to her second calf in September 2002. The female calf lived only a month and is now deceased. Penny was moved to the DIP pools from RPP on August 13 2002, to give birth. However, she quickly returned because she had no calf to support. Her and Copper were together almost all of the time. She also took care of other young dolphins when they no longer have their mothers. She is so sweet because she does this without giving up Copper. For the year or so Bunsen was at RPP (2001) he and Copper swam around together under Penny. It was a very funny (yet adorable) sight because Penny is a small dolphin, and Bunsen and Copper were each almost her size. Pacino did the same thing at the beginning of 2004 when Scarback was taken out of the pool to separate the two. I had also seen Corona tagging along with Copper and Penny after Cometta stopped hanging out with Corona. Penny is a smaller dolphin with a long thin rostrum. She is thin and was even for a pregnant dolphin. She was not the smartest dolphin out there. She was sort of a blonde of the dolphin world. But she was one of the sweetest dolphins I have ever had the privlege of knowing. She always enjoyed being rubbed. No other dolphin came up to strangers as much as Penny. She loved people. She was a wonderful mother, and a good natured dolphin. She was at the very bottom of the dominance scale probably even lower than the young 3 and 4 year olds, but she never let it bother her. She got along well with everyone, and no one picked on her. Copper and her were inseperable (but if you know SeaWorld, you know they don't care, and they were separated a few times). Even when they were separated they would go right back to swimming in the mother calf position once reunited again. I have not witnessed this since I started going to Sea World in 2000. Every time a mother and calf are separated they will not go back to swimming like mother and calf once reunited. This was not the case for Penny and Copper. No matter how long they were separated, how many times they were separated, or how old Copper got (she was 5 when Penny died), they always went back to swimming like mother and calf. Penny was a very special dolphin, and will always remain in my memory as nothing but that. A very special dolphin, that should not be forgotten.

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