and it's 'swim with the dolphin' programmes?
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Like any other business, the dolphin captivity industry is based on supply and demand: As long as there is a paying audience to sustain the huge profits of this industry, dolphins will be captured from the wild and captive dolphin breeding programs will be intensified.
The dolphins at Discovery Cove were born as part of SeaWorld's dolphin breeding program, simply because a large part of the public is willing to buy tickets to obtain a hands-on encounter with an exotic animal.
It is important to understand that the economic success of places like Discovery Cove is creating a copy cat syndrome in other parts of the world: Numerous violent dolphin captures are now taking place in the Caribbean and Mexico to meet the consumers' growing demand for a close-up encounter with dolphins.
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What you have just read is an excerpt taken from a written article from the www.dolphinproject.org website.
I certainly agree with what's written there, and I'm sure many others would too.
All animal abuse is a crime, but perhaps the most incredibly selfish and immoral act humans have ever committed towards animals. Is probably the one of capturing marine mammals from their home (the world's oceans) where they were born to be! and are meant to do! what they were put here to do!
These selfish facilities claim to say the close up experience you will have with dolphins is 'educational' But the only thing these facilities are wanting to educate themselves of, is how much money their 'workhorses' or 'slaves' will bring in for them.
Dolphins in the wild have an average lifespan of 45 years. Half of all dolphins captured in the wild and put into captivity die within their first two years and the one that do survive last an average of 5 - 7 years, 7 if their lucky.
Once a wild (now captive dolphin dies) or a captive bred one does. These facilities simply go and get another one, simple as that, and work it until it dies.
Dolphins in the wild swim up to and over 40 miles a day, in captivity they go around in circles and would literally have to circle that tank, or as is the case with Discovery Cove ( a concrete tank DISGUISED!!! as a natural environment) thousands of times to achieve what they effortlessly would and do in the wild.
The bottom line is; is that, as long as people keep patronizing these places and keeping them in business, they will never shut down or go away.
To abuse animals in the hollow and selfish pursuit of money, is immoral unjustified and so incredibly selfish; and while the owners of these places don't feel these emotions while their counting their money in their offices.
The compassionate people of this world do and we know the way to stop it is to simply not buy a ticket to these places and keep them operating.
So think twice about it before you visit Discovery Cove and want to swim the dolphins?
Because as mentioned in this video :)
"I wish people would see it from the dolphins point of view" and that's indeed true.
The link to the written article is here :)
http://www.dolphinproject.org/?pageid=22232
Thank You
This video was uploaded with permission from the Humane Society of the United States.
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@ConnorDowney2 Let's go get some snow leopards out of the himlayas and make them do tricks to show the public how "magnificent" they are. Let's get some endangered wild tigers and put them in a circus in order to persuade the audience to save them. No! It is NOT good to do such things! And if it IS a good thing, and if it IS truly helping the animals, then why not go out and brutally capture a bunch more and build more marine parks? You'd be educating the public and saving the species, right?
dolphinserenity 3 weeks ago
, i want to say that im not saying it isnt cruel because it is, but the animals choose to do these tricks and many of them were born in captivity. If it wasnt for these parks people wouldnt realize how magnificent these creatures are and it persuades the public to try and do more to save them, the other animals 'habitats' are built like they would be in their natural habitats. And the animals certainly are not starved and forced to do anything. These animals love all the attention they can get!
ConnorDowney2 3 weeks ago
first , all of you guys are saying that you had ' the best experience of your life ' at this horrid place . and that you cant swim with dolphins anywhere else . thats a lie . I lived in hawaii for many many years , and sometimes I would just be chilling in the water , and a pod of dolphins came by . they are curious , and happy to interact with you .. ON THEIR OWN . they didnt need to be STARVED and FORCED to interact with humans . places like this SICKEN me .
lindseyranks 1 month ago
@pepsigoodman99 Also, look for the ccshome link it should be near the first link on google on that site is a documentary on the killing where they caught it on camera and it should also be on YouTube
pepsigoodman99 1 month ago
By coastal sanctuary u mean closed off from the ocean or the opposite where they can come and go as they please ?
pepsigoodman99 1 month ago
Let me share some info for you go look up on Google "Japanese dolphin slaughter" I want you to look where some of these dolphins come from. They are herded in to coves where they cant escape, then trainers come and pick out the ones that they want and the rest are slaughtered and their meat is sold on the market which is unsafe due to their high levels of mercury. Thought you all might find this interesting and a true fact.
pepsigoodman99 1 month ago
Wow! You really need to chill out.... what a moron! This is the most moot video about Discovery Cove. I can't wait to share this experience Discovery Cove with my kids.
Fuck the dolphins perspective! Keep smoking your dope pothead!
cuksucker 1 month ago
fuck u
they wanted to come they dont dorce them ding bat
TheCodbusters 2 months ago
fuck u
TheCodbusters 2 months ago
Naomi, the exact opposite of an expert, claims that looking at animals as teddy bears is what harms them. LOL. People KNOW animals are dangerous. They aren't THAT stupid. The only people who are really that dumb are the few people who have tigers or crocodiles as pets... Naomi, do you want us to fear animals? Ok! Let's reverse what captivity has done for our world of wildlife! Did you know back in the day, we FEARED orcas so much that the Navy was sent out to kill any they could find. THE NAVY.
RingneckDoveFan 2 months ago