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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I did a dolphin encounter at blue lagoon in the Bahamas with my kids. We didn’t ride the dolphins, but we interacted with them. The dolphin was a mother who would occasionally swim away from the instructor to nudge her baby back to the area whenever he swam off. The instructor would explain that her mama duties come first, and assured us that she would be back once she got her little one back to the area.

It’s a conservation sanctuary. It was education based. I am confident they didn’t steal and kill dolphins. [b]They were breeding them[/b] and they seemed well cared for in huge open lagoons. 
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So how, exactly, did they get the mother?  And train her?[/quote]

She could easily be a rescue that after they rehabbed her she still couldn't survive on her own in the wild.[/quote]

Here is another red flag about this facility regarding dolphin  breeding in captivity:

From the Dolphin Project:  “Staff may make it seem that dolphins are bred in captivity to help wild populations. In reality, these dolphins will not be contributing to wild populations as they will never be released. Dolphins are bred in captivity for the sole purpose of having more captive dolphins to profit from. Facilities that promote or celebrate calf births should be treated with caution.”[/quote]

Sorry, PP, sounds like you were in exactly the type of marine park The Dolphin Project is fighting against.  They aren’t going to release those poor dolphins into the wild.  [/quote]

Yep.  You mention all the red flags for your “dolphin encounter” at Blue Lagoon in the Bahamas — sounds like it markets itself as an animal sanctuary but is exactly the opposite.  True sanctuaries want to release the dolphin back into the wild, and if that is not possible, limit interactions with humans and mimic natural environment as much as possible:

From The Dolphin Project:

“A true sanctuary is for dolphins that cannot safely be released back into the wild.

A true sanctuary never tells visitors that the dolphins are free to leave whenever they want, as this ignores the fact that non-releasable dolphins depend on their caregivers to survive.

Captive breeding is not allowed in a real sanctuary. There is no reason for a dolphin to be born in captivity.”[/quote]

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