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Zoo Duisburg (Germany), December 2008
A big attraction at Duisburg's zoo is the dolphinarium where trained flippers throwing balls out of the water and jumping over ropes for a fish. This is not my world. My star in that zoo was born in wild freshwater and is living a few minutes away from the "flipper circus". And here he is….
More photos of the amazon river dolphin here. See him hunting a living trout! :)
Eine große Attraktion im Duisburger Zoo ist das Delphinarium, wo dressierte Flipper Bälle aus dem Wasser werfen und für einen Fisch über ein Seil springen. Das ist nicht meine Welt. Mein Star in diesem Zoo wurde in wildem Süßwasser geboren und lebt ein paar Minuten entfernt vom "Flipper-Zirkus". Und hier ist er....
Mehr Fotos vom Amazonasdelphin gibt's hier. Seht Euch an, wie er eine lebende Forelle fängt! :)
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Spain, Valencia, the “Dolphinarium” of “L'Oceanogràfic” at CAC, “Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias”, with a total of five pools, is the largest of its kind in Europe.
During my stay on the island of Curaçao I used to swim hours every day for almost one year with a dolphin in the Piscadera Bay & still believe, holding this sensitive, highly intelligent & playful dolphins & others marine mammals in dolphinariums, is like holding a big dog in a tiny one room apartment, …on the other hand, the studies done in some dolphinariums are also very important.
Oceanogràfic de València
Valencia / España
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Marineland was opened in 1964 at a cost of £200,000 (over £3 million today) and was the first such facility in Europe to be purpose built for aquatic animal shows. Eight dolphins were flown in from Florida and these were later joined by several sealions and even some performing chimps!
By the late-1980s only one dolphin remained (Rocky) and in 1988 a covert attempt was made to try and release him back into the nearby sea, under cover of darkness. The project was abandoned and several people received fines and suspended prison sentences for conspiracy to steal.
The following year a legitimate campaign was started and enough money was raised to purchase Rocky and he was released into the sea in the Caribbean in 1991 along with two other dolphins from Brighton Aquarium. Their subsequent fate remains unknown.
Marineland closed it's doors and was demolished in 1992
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Species: Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus).
Place: Zoo Aquarium de Madrid, Spain.
Taken in October 2014.
Camera: Canon EOS 1100D.
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Poisson chirurgien à poitrine blanche (Acanthurus leucosternon).
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Drums beach
Tel Aviv, Israel
"The Drums’ Beach, or Drummers’ Beach, is a southern Tel Aviv beach, located near the structure which once held Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium, and named after the familiar scene for which it is famous. Every Friday near sunset people gather here on the pier with drums, Middle Eastern goblet drums (or darbukas), guitars and flutes, and welcome the sunset with playing, dancing and juggling in a contagious Shanti (in Sanskrit meaning bliss) atmosphere. This alternative welcoming of the Sabbath has been performed here for about twenty years already and it attracts great numbers of people who come to participate in the celebration, drink alcohol which is being sold here in quantity and enjoy this unique scene until it is dark."
Small break at Planète Sauvage today.
Stormtroopers 365 > Day 79/365
The Daily Telegraph photo. Photographer may have been Terri Berk.
Caption: " 'All smiles' at Windsor Safari Pak where feeding time in the Dolphinarium has become a fishy business for three dolphins and the killer whale, which is taking a highly concentrated by from Mr. Douglas Cartlige, the dolphin trainer."
The Dolphinarium discotheque massacre was a Hamas terror attack on 1 June 2001 in which a Hamas-affiliated Islamist terrorist blew himself up outside a nightclub on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 Israelis, 16 of them teenagers
The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is a wide-ranging marine mammal of the family Delphinidae. The common bottlenose dolphin is a very familiar dolphin due to the wide exposure it gets in captivity in marine parks and dolphinariums, and in movies and television programs. It is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. It inhabits temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and is absent only from polar waters. While formerly known simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus Tursiops as a whole. As considerable genetic variation has been described within this species, even between neighboring populations, many experts think additional species may be recognized.
Common bottlenose dolphins are grey, and between 2 and 4 m (6.6 and 13.1 ft) long, and weigh between 150 and 650 kg (330 and 1,430 lb). Males are generally larger and heavier than females. In most parts of the world, adult length is between 2.5 and 3.5 m (8.2 and 11.5 ft); weight ranges between 200 and 500 kg (440 and 1,100 lb). Dolphins have a short and well-defined snout that looks like an old-fashioned gin bottle, which is the source for their common name.
This image was taken off the coast of Chile in the Pacific Ocean inbetween Coquimbo and Arica.
Dolphin underwater at Kolmården Dolphinarium
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This animal might have been sick when I took the photo (in 2012). It had some sort of wart on the nose.
Wikie, Valentin, Freya, Inouk, Keijo et Moana.
In memory of the complete family... Freya et Valentin </3
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The cove remains blue until September - Cove Guardians continue to monitor captive dolphins in Taiji, Japan – March 4, 2015
Aeyeda, from the Netherlands, speaks from the heart after her experience as a Cove Guardian in Taiji.
Taiji is a very dark town. I have seen THE worst animal abuse with my own eyes. I unfortunately witnessed many red cove days, and when the cove stayed blue there was a captive transfer, and when there were no transfers the captives were still there. Still trained in the most horrific way you can ever imagine and being force fed in an inhumane way.
It may sound quiet, it may even look quiet, but here in Taiji it is never quiet.
Nothing positive is happening in Taiji. There is no place for love within the trainers, killers, and for the dolphins and small whales. It is all about profit from captivity and the hunger to kill for 6 months. And even when the season is over the hunger is still there. Coastal whaling begins shortly after the drive hunt season.
I want to share a story from one bottlenose family.
In the early morning, dolphin hunters were going out to look for a pod to drive into the cove for slaughter and captivity. We saw how the hunting boats go over the horizon and we hoped with all we had inside they would come back empty handed. But when they found the pod and were beginning to drive them toward Taiji, we realized how vicious these hunter were. The dolphins are so drained by stress and so tired from fighting. When we looked into their eyes, once they were in the cove, we could only see fear. The dolphins feel what is what is going to happen to them and even though it is a lost cause, they still try, and try, and try to fight for every last breath. We witnessed the family separated. The dolphins witnessed each of their family members wrestled by the killers and dragged under the tarps so the trainers could examine the dolphins that were beautiful enough for captivity. The remaining pod that was unworthy was murdered one by one in front of the rest of the pod. After the process, the banger boats forced the rest of the family out to sea. Most didn’t want to leave their dead family members and were confused and scared. The drive out was just as brutal as the drive into the cove. What kind of life will these few dolphins have? Will they survive? They are free, but are they really free after seeing their family being ripped apart and got killed in front of them?
This is a story I wanted to share and there are so many other stories of the many dolphins that swim past Taiji. So many stories of kidnapping and murder.
There is no reason for the dolphin drive hunt to continue. There is no need to take more captives for entertainment. There are other ways to see these beautiful cetaceans, just get on a boat and go see them in the wild. Not the fake education that they give in aquariums and dolphinariums.
So if anyone were to ask me “How can I make a difference?”
I will tell them that there are small steps we can take that can make a huge difference. I believe this will come to an end if we will all bind our forces together and step forward and let them hear our voices!’
If people stop buying tickets to see captive dolphins, the slaughter will end.
We can either do nothing to stop this, or we can so something.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
I had really great moments playing with them. I won't ever forget those days...
Taken in August 2010 at Selwo Marina Delfinarium.
Valencia March 2009 Dolphinarium Exhibition
The dolphinarium of L'Oceanogràfic, with a total of five pools, is the largest of its kind in Europe. Here one may sit back and observe the magnificent dolphins display their ability and intelligence during a stunning exhibition. Like my Facebook page; www.facebook.com/pages/Souvenirs-by-Michael-Hughes/130839...