You do not need to equate them to anything other than they are captive wild animals. While I do not have a huge problem with captive animals being kept in environments that give them enrichment, I do hve issue with these dolphins living in a bathtub.

What you need to do is complain about their living space, and while it might meet a minimum requirement, is that what we need to be known for? Keeping dolphins in a minmally required space? If there were two, perhaps it would not be as bad. But 9, that is unecessary.

What bothers me most is how Dolphin Quest states how they are there to educate, yet when asked questions about their animal’s living conditions, the routine response to adults and school aged children alike is ” Well, they must be happy because they keep having babies.” Fact- Man and Dolphins are the only two mammals that have sex for pleasure. All others only have sex to procreate. So no, it is not that they are happy. They may be bored and just plain randy.

The dolphins are there to make money, and to produce other dolphins to be shipped off to other locations to make even more money.Have there been any scientific studies on their muscle conditions? Do they ever get to utilize their true speed and agility? Do they have full range of motion in their bodies?

Equate it to having a great dane in a small studio apartment with a 10×10 garden and never letting it out of that confinement. You will find its muscle development to be hindered, and its physical ability to move therefore hindered as well.

800,000 thousand gallons may be more water than is required, but 800,000 gallons in a shallow divided pool system does not mean it is adequate for them to live.

I’ve spoken to a lot of Bermudians on this subject and the majority feel the same as we do!!

Let em all die?

Hell; we kill each other in the thousands each day.
We take away the animals habitant to make furniture
We strip mountains to access coal
We overfish
We pollute rivers and streams
More plastic in the oceans than there are in 100 Walmarts, stocked.

Shalom.

The DQ pools were only meant to be temporary following the hurricane. If not suitable larger facility is available in Bermuda then they should cease with their breeding program, it’s just not right to actively bring these young dolphins in to the world. Their pool is directly linked to the ocean, you can’t tell me they don’t know that there’s something more out there…

It occurred to me that natural conception would only occur if the pod were happy to do so in their current environment. Personally I do not feel that artifical conception should be allowed under these circumstances, due to the small size of the pool. Some species will actually stop reproducing under such circumstances…I wonder if this is true of dolphins?

And if it would help to observe captive babies, do we really need more than one of them at a time?