An Investigation of The Cove Part 2

Part 2 of 2, this video provides a detailed review of the allegation by producers of the documentary, The Cove - that the international dolphin aquarium business is responsible for the Japanese dolphin hunts.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• SeaWorld
• Dolphin
• Drive Fishery
• Aquarium
• The Cove

[UltraEpicLoser]

@2teamswitzerland Yes, I do agree that Dolphin meat is not fit for human consumption because of the high mercury levels, but if those levels were acceptable, should we eat them? By gratification, I do mean either entertainment, or that warm fuzzy feeling. Most people wont give money to charity without some sort of connection, either a shock documentary or seeing the animal. Zoos therefore generate more constant revenue than shock drama/documentaries.

[2teamswitzerland]

@UltraEpicLoser First off some zoos are help with preserving the endangered and what not, but MOST do not. They keep they're animals for human entertainment and breed them into captivity when they are wild animals. Secondly, what do you mean by gratification? And research what? Thirdly, you should not eat dolphin meat because dolphin meat has so much mercury in it, it is deadly. Dolphin meat contains up to 19.2ppm of mercury. This is 48 times higher than the maximum advisory level of 0.4ppm.

[UltraEpicLoser]

@2teamswitzerland Why not, and why stop at cetaceans? Why not close all zoos? I think that there should be some in captivity, revenue helps fund research, people won't give to something that they can't get gratification back. Why should I not eat dolphin meat? Zoos are needed to educate laypeople, to research and preserve animals.

[MrShrkb8]

Propoganda from an exploiter of captive marine mammals. If they are so proud why don't they publish the lifespans of their marine mammals. Why don't they publish the survival rates of captive born marine mammals. Sea World is crying crocodile tears here. Hurray to Ric, who has exposed the evil side of dolphin drive kills and captivity. If Sea World were so appalled by drive kills, why don't they lobby for the ouster of Asian dolphinariums from IMATA??????? Hmmm.

[susanneandnicholas]

WELL I LIKE O'BERRY HE MAY NOT BE PERFECT OR A 100% BUT 2 HIP HIPPS FOR O'BERRY AND WHALE WARS FOR SHEDING LIGHT ON THOSE DAMN PEOPLES BARBERCK PATRICES . AND WE DO TAKE TO MUCH FROM THE OCEAN ONE DAY REAL SOON NOTHING WILL BE LEFT ...... WE HUMAN BEING CAN'T JUST KEEP STRIP MINEING THIS PLANET WE LIVE ON.... ITS GONNA COME TO END AND MOST LIKELY IN THE VARY NEAR FUTURE

[2teamswitzerland]

Either way, seaworld, there should not be ANY cetaceans should not be kept in captivity.

[flargmuffin92]

Those of you not willing to believe that there are indeed statistics to back up the claim that SeaWorld, and literally all North American parks do NOT obtain their animals from the Japanese drive hunts need to check online captive cetacean databases such as phinventory. You will quickly find that the claims made in this video are factual. The United States hasnt obtained a dolphin from the wild since 1989, and the ones they at one time captured were never from Japan, they were generallyFloridian

[ddavid993]

how about pay me how much those people make for killing dolphans and ill go take those people out and flee to never come back to japan

[ThePrairieOrca]

Nice try, SeaWorld.

"Misleading" or not, the documentary underlines two facts:

The dolphin slaughter is terrible,

and

Cetaceans do not belong in captivity.

[kgoods11]

Anyway it's a pilot whale that was imported from Japan. Look up federalregister.gov Marine Mammals File No; 15014