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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. They were breeding them 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]

Maybe they rescued?

Maybe they changed the way they do business with a conservation approach?

Point is: I didn’t ride a dolphin; I learned about them, paid to support the education and conservation effort, and got to be very close (standing in chest deep water), stroke the dolphin, etc. [/quote]

It’s not exactly about riding a dolphin.  You had a personal encounter with the dolphin where the dolphin has been trained to perform.  That place is a marine park claiming to be a conservation dolphin sanctuary.  Those are the places The Dolphin Project is fighting against.[/quote]

Lots of dogs are trained to work or perform. That doesn’t make them mistreated.[/quote]

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