|Captive Dolphins Are Not Smiling|
Corporations such as Dolphin Discovery, Dolphinaris, or Delphinus World both, directly and indirectly perpetuate the dolphin capture and slaughter in Taiji, Japan and the Solomon Islands.
"The Ugly Truth Behind Swimming with dolphins in Playa del Carmen"
Companies like Dolphin Discovery, Delphinus World, and Dolphinaris force dolphins to perform tricks by refusing to feed the dolphin until it has completed a task. These tasks include jumps, and allowing customers to ride the dorsal fin of the dolphin.
|Killing Boats Japan|
This is what they refer to as "world class medical care", when in fact it is simply "product maintenance"...Starvation is not the only stress placed upon captive dolphins. The Dolphin Discovery, Puerto Aventuras dolphinarium houses dolphins in a small swimming pool next to loud and busy restaurants in order to maximise the sales potential of their swim with dolphins tours. Dolphins swim over 50 miles everyday while riding surf, socializing and searching for food. Dolphin captivity tears dolphins away from their family, and plunges them into a life of servitude.
"For Every 1 Dolphin in Captivity, 17 Died..."
|Wild dolphins riding the surf|
Dolphinarium are not rescuing dolphins, how many sick or injured dolphins do you see in the ocean (perhaps one every five years).
I have been diving for most of my life, that´s over 2000 dives, and I have seen zero sick or injured dolphins in the wild.
Dolphinaris, Delphinus World and Dolphin Discovery captured... not rescued their original dolphins. Actually that's slightly inaccurate, they actually paid poor fishermen to capture the cetaceans (usually young females dolphins) for them.
Anyone swimming with dolphins in Playa del Carmen will notice that the majority of the captive cetaceans are comprised of young females. As is the case with most species the females seem to learn faster than males.
Entire pods of dolphins were captured, then the young females were singled out and taken. The rest of the dolphins either died during the stress of the capture, or soon after due to the injuries sustained during the violent rounding up, netting, and kidnapping process.
"Short sighted personal gratification should not come at the expense of something we love"
So if you are thinking about swimming with dolphins in Playa del Carmen, hopefully you are now aware of the contribution towards the continue exploitation and needless slaughter of wild free swimming dolphins that you are making.
There are plenty of places where you can swim with dolphins in the wild under their terms in their own habitat, and not in a swimming pool, it just takes a little more effort.