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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah. I don't think it's torture or the equivalent of bashing a dogs head in with a rock.  That's kind of weird. :shock: [/quote]

It actually is torture for a dolphin. It us the equivalent of a person living in a closet. You can survive but it would be awful. [/quote]

What?

We did a dolphin encounter at blue lagoon in the Bahamas. We did not ride the Dolphins. The dolphins are not in pools or tanks. Rather, they are in a huge lagoon (multiple interconnected lagoons actually). You sit on the dock while the trainer calls them over. The trainers talk about the Dolphins, and you walk away having learned something. Our family got in waist deep water with the trainer and were able to touch the dolphin and assist the trainer with tricks/playing. The dolphin we interacted with actually had a baby that was swimming around nearby, and at several points the mother swam away to corral her baby boy and keep him close by. The instructor would explain that "that's what moms do, and their philosophy is to follow the lead of the dolphins so we had to wait for mom to finish whatever she needed to do before coming back." And she came back with her baby.

I researched the various venues to do this, and I specifically selected blue lagoon as opposed to Atlantis. I felt like the trainers loved the Dolphins and cared for them. They were free to swim all over the huge lagoon (which encircled the island).

Many dolphins living in captivity actually aren't equipped to live independently. Sea World rescues injured and ill animals all the time, and they keep the ones that can't survive on their own.[/quote]

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147416-d149861-r97624111-Blue_Lagoon_Island-Nassau_New_Providence_Island_Bahamas.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351756
"At Dolphin Encounters, Blue Lagoon Island, nine dolphins were live-captured from the waters in Abaco, The Bahamas."

They didn't "rescue" these animals they stole them from their pod. If you cannot understand how awful that is and how horribly they are treated... [/quote]

That trip advisor post is inaccurate. The poster didn't even do the encounter, so there's no way she walked over where the Dolphins actually are. She walked over the main bridge where the ferry drops you off, which is blocked off. The Dolphins aren't in fenced in pens. It might appear like that from a distance since the docks splinter off into many different smaller docks for each group. But those aren't pens; they are just square docks. [/quote]

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