Visiting Nelly

Not long ago, I took a colleague and his young daughter to meet Nelly, who is a very old acquaintance of mine. Nelly is 57, which would be unexceptional but for the fact that she is a bottlenose dolphin – the oldest one in captivity. She was born at Marineland, near St. Augustine, Fla., in 1953, and has spent her entire life greeting and performing for tourists there. I met …