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Lunchi In reply to DarkSilverflame [2011-05-01 23:58:41 +0000 UTC]

If you had the opportunity to do science on and watch wild dolphins, maybe even have a relationship with them, thats nice for you but does not count for almost all other people on earth. Dolphinariums have provided a lot of scientists the possibility to find stuff out about dolpins which is not possible in the open ocean because wild animals are not controlable and will in most cases simply swim away. If you had the luck to have a close relationship - then you are very lucky and one of very few cases. I also know people who work in dolphinariums and also helped in projects with wild BNDs for example. But there the water was often very murky- you cannot see the dolphins - and they most often are shy and swim away.
In a dolphinarium you can do controlled tests, as in what they see, eat, hear, react and so on. Also the famous "mirror-test" to check if they are intelligent enough to be self-aware, was done in dolphinariums, not the open ocean. So in fact, dolphinariums created the picture of the "intelligent, friendly creature" as that we see dolphins today. Before dolphinariums existed, orcas and other dolphins were hated as "fish stealers" and even feared and hunted down by most countries even Europe and USA, who protect them now.
It is thanks to SeaWorld and similar places that dolphins are so protected except for some places like Japan and Faroer islands, so we should be thankful to them. And do not forget the millions of people who do not have the money to drive far to the sea and see wild dolphins. They are happy and grateful to see a living dolphin in a zoo and being provided with information about them there.
The points I mentioned in my describtion are ment for people who have a close mind against dolphinariums and do not consider the other side... people who know a lot about dolphins like scientists who work with them in dolphinariums or the wild, will know that there are of course differences between dolphinariums and as you said also between wild populations of dolphins...
But then again: I cannot write a whole book about them into my describtion, people would not read that So I try to keep it short.
Since here in Germany there is recently a lot of false stuff going on against our dolphinariums, which is pretty unfair, and they are often lying as well to get people away from visiting a zoo, I decided to only point out the positive sides of modern scientific-lead dolphinariums.
One organization for example had a demo in front of the zoo and told the visitors before they entered the zoo, that the dolphinarium was closed, "because the dolphins had an infection". Guess what, they were not sick at all, and the dolphinarium was normally open, as usual... I find it just sad, that these people have to lie to get their opinion across and try to manipulate people...
I know which side I am standing on, and I will not change that for sure.

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Lunchi In reply to orcaskillerwale [2011-04-19 22:59:18 +0000 UTC]

Dankesehr

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Lunchi In reply to woxys [2011-04-16 02:33:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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