Blue Snow Garden

I’m truly very sorry to the family of the trainer that died of the Orca attack but for the sake of saving the dolphins, it is time to spill some truth – $eaworld already knew that this could happen anytime to any trainer or anyone close to those caught in the wild animals. These sea-captive entertainment industry players have kept all sorts of dolphin species in their super duper tiny size dolphinariums, and do they not realise by now, that enslaving these creatures to do silly tricks (all for $,$$$,$$$,$$$), is nothing but raping and killing nature’s most intelligent sea animals?

Wait a minute, don’t we all know they realised that a long time ago, but they are still doing it ????!

BBC News: Seaworld Orca kills trainer

Read this:

Do you think it is so damn cool to see dolphins at the zoo?

*** READ THESE DOLPHIN FACTS NOW BEFORE YOU STEP INTO ANY DOLPHIN PARK AGAIN ***:

• 53% of those dolphins who survive the violent capture die within 90 days.
• The average life span of a dolphin in the wild is 45 years; yet half of all captured dolphins die within their first two years of captivity. The survivors last an average of only 5 years in captivity.
• Every seven years, half of all dolphins in captivity die from capture shock, pneumonia, intestinal disease, ulcers, chlorine poisoning, and other stress-related illnesses. To the captive dolphin industry, these facts are accepted as routine operating expenses.
• In many tanks the water is full of chemicals as well as bacteria, causing many health problems in dolphins including blindness.
• When a baby dolphin is born in captivity, the news is usually kept secret until the calf shows signs of survival. Although marine mammals do breed in captivity, the birth rate is not nearly as successful as the one in the wild, with high infant mortality rates.
• Wild dolphins can and need to swim 40 to 100 miles per day – in pools they just go around in circles till they get bored.
• Many marine parks subject their mammals to hunger so they will perform for their food. Jumping through hoops, tailwalking and playing ball are trained behaviors that do not occur in the wild.
• Confined animals who abuse themselves (banging their heads against the walls) are creating stimuli which their environment cannot supply. Dolphins in captivity tend to develop stereotypical behaviors (swimming in a repetitive circle pattern, with eyes closed and in silence) because of boredom and confinement. This is equivalent to the swaying and pacing of primates, lions, tigers and bears confined in cages.
• Dolphins are predators of fish and spend up to half of their time in the wild hunting for food. Supplying dead fish results in less exercise and lack of mental stimulation, thus causing super-boredom to them.
• When trapped together, males often become agitated and domineering. This creates pecking orders (unknown in the wild) and unprovoked attacks on each other and the trainers. In the ocean, although fights are not unknown, the wild dolphins have a chance to escape.

Do You Believe In Dolphin Education?
Dolphinariums claim that their mission is to protect dolphins in the wild through research and public education. How nice to hear such words but the truth and facts about dolphin in captivity speaks a lot louder. If dolphins are so damn happy in captivity, why do they die so fast? Why does Seaworld and other dolphin zoos keeps a big secret about their sickness and mortality rates? There would be fewer spectators if people knew how many of these dolphins and whales were “dying” to amuse them. I wish the death records were displayed at the entrance, so no one would buy a ticket.

Education and Conservation?
Most dolphin zoos or dolphinariums have made little or no contribution to education and conservation about dolphins. Jacques Cousteau believed that captive dolphins are conditioned and deformed and bear little resemblance to dolphins living in freedom in the sea. It’s like studying human psychology only in prisons, which leads, obviously, to misinterpretations and absurd generalizations. As people learn more about the wild cetaceans, they pity more the captive ones. As TV, Internet, computers, and virtual reality become greater educational tools for us, the justification for keeping captive animals for display disappears.

Research?
We blindfold dolphins to study the efficiency of their echolocation system. We put probes in their larynxes and nostrils to examine their sound production. We train them to push buttons and levers, to choose between materials and colors, we teach them to speak. We clamp them down, drill holes into them, and dissect them. Why? They do not exist as subjects for agonizing experiments by man. Dolphins suffer no less than humans. The only way scientists should study dolphins is to swim with them in the wild. No argument can rationalize the forced confinement of these highly intelligent creatures. Dolphins are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

The Bad News Is…
Dolphins are still being caught and sold to dolphin zoos and slaughtered for their meat in Japan. Taiji town in Japan is now famous of having a blood bath with dolphins after Ric O’Barry exposed them in The Cove.

The Good News Is…
Fortunately for the dolphins, more and more people are becoming concerned about dolphin suffering having watched The Cove, and uncomfortable at sea circuses. Citizens are now speaking out loudly that dolphins and whales belong in the ocean. This is their only hope. Imagine this: A dolphin slaughtering theme park has a dolphin show and nobody wants to go. Their fat and rich owners will soon have to close it down. There would be no dolphin shows if no one paid to watch them, so stop watching dolphin shows!

Read about Ric O’Barry, our only dolphin activist and hope for dolphins.