To be honest, when I post dolphin photo, I always feel the strong tendency to disable comments. Why? Because I am not only tired, but FED UP with kids who just saw the Cove and now they consider themselves experts on dolphin captivity. Do not bother, kids. I know ALL those arguments, I used to be anti-dolphinariums as well. But then I read much more info and facst and even some interesting information about your god O'Barry. So all I can recommend is: USE YOUR BRAIN AND STUDY THE ISSUE PROPERLY BEFORE YOU MAKE AN OPINION - and SURELY BEFORE YOU START TEACHING ME!
I, of couse, respect opinions of people who are very interested in an issue, read many books and are still against the dolphin captivity. I have NO problem with that. But I will be always annoyed by kids who base all their attitude on ONE movie, which is in fact no documentary, but rather ideology based movie.
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Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus, delfin skakavy) from brand new dolphin lagoon ZOO / dolphinarium Nuremberg, Germany
The animal was NOT forced to leave the water and get on the shore. Next time the trainer asked the dolphins to get outside of water, they refused to do that and trainer just laughed. Of course, dolphins were fed PROPERLY. Famous "ohmgggdz, if dolphinz do not performz, they has no fishey and starvezzzz" is only a myth spread by activists.
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INFO ABOUT THE ANIMAL:Name: Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Location: warm and temperate tropical oceans worldwide
Size: 2 - 4 metres long
weight: 150 – 650 kg
Diet: fish, cephalopod, crustacean
Conservation status: Least Concern
Interesting facts: dolphin is a mammal, not a fish! Baby dolphins always drink mother milk
| dolphins have bigger brains, than humans
| dolphins usually live in groups
| dolphin is one of few animals, who kill not only for food! Dolphins are well-known for killing porpoises, their smaller "cousins". Male dolphins are also known to rape the females. Male dolphins even kill baby dolphins to make their mothers want to mate again. Dolphins are not that cute and nice animals, as many people think. They have no problem to kill a shark and they sometime annoy or sexually harass swimmers in the sea
| dolphins use very effective echolocation to search for prey
| dolphins are time to time found washed ashore, too often dying – nobody knows, why this happens.
Relationship with humans: people keep dolphins in aquariums and dolphinarius, where the animals perform special tricks – dolphins very easily learn those tricks
| there are scientific researches about dolphins, which usually prove their high inteligence
| dolphins appear in many human legends
| some dolphins help people to hunt fish throught whole generations of both, people and dolphins
| US army uses dolphins, teaching them to find mines and so on...
| in some parts of the world, wild dolphins come from their own will to interact with people
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Bottlenose dolphin's brain is bigger than human brain. Dolphins are aware of themselves - they look in the mirror and see selves. They also call each others by names and probably use more sounds to communicate than us. Only because they haven't develop sense of power and greed doesn't mean that they enjoy captivity more than you would enjoy being kept captive.
I am pretty much against any animal captivity, because humans have not right to decide about another species fate, but I don't think it's gonna change any soon...
If being close to wild species, taking good popular pictures of them and have a chance to hug a fox or two justifies for you keeping such genuine creatures as dolphins, limited to some tank filled with water - it's your choice and conscious. Maybe you would consider becoming wild nature photographer - much more challenge and real wilderness experience.
I love animals myself, I'd love to see and pet all of them, but I have this thought, that if the fact, that I didn't have a chance to ever see them, would save their lives and guarantee them free wild life I would never try to meet them...
How many animal species does your "ALL THE ANIMALS MUST BE FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" petitions and shouting save?
Unlike your idealist crying, ZOOs in fact really DO save animal species, even returning them back to the wild, saving whole populations.
Zoos ACT to save the animals - yet you, in the name of your unrealistic idea "freeeeee animalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas for all the coooooosts!" in fact make their work more difficult.
Yeah. I in fact really despise all those people who - although they have NEVER done anything to really help the animals - are critizing the ZOOs and dolphinariums.
Yay for such facilities. As a realist and an animal lover, I am grateful for them and all the good they have done for animals.
Howgh.
You know how much all those famous antidolphinarium activist like O Barry helped us?
They... did.... NOTHING.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooothing.
They focus only on modern and estabilish dolphinariums. And they absolutely do not care about much worse issues like travelling dolphin circus in the middle of Europe.
This gave me the final drop - I now see that most of antidolphinarium activists are hypocrites. I - although I support modern dolphinariums - do much more to stop that circkus that those, who LOUDLY shout ALL DOLPHINS MUST BE FREEEEE!, but when it comes to acting, they do not move their butt.
Yes, you are right - they have ABSOLUTELY no respect from me.
Not now.
And no, I do not want to be wildlife photograher. Any good dolphinarium and any good ZOO gave much more good for animals than ANY of you - idealists, who keep TALKING about "oooooooooooooooh, every animal should be FRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!". ZOOs ACT to help the animals. Most of you idealists only taaaalk and sign petitions. Yet you still consider yoursellf better than those specialists and ZOO workers.
I am honestly fed up with this.