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Dolphins in Training
It's impressive to me the power that food has over animal behaviours. I'll do pretty much anything for a treat too, as will these dolphins for some fishy morsels:
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July 5th, 2010 - 14:35
Great picture. I love all the faces in the crowd!
July 14th, 2010 - 17:27
Maybe these creatures would be better off at sea and not jumping for their dinner?
July 15th, 2010 - 08:03
Me too! It’s almost more entertaining to watch the spectators than the centre stage act put on by the dolphins
July 15th, 2010 - 08:17
It’s a neat experience being able to see typically non-domesticated animals up close in person and accomplishing feats of learned behaviour. But, yes, I agree that you do wonder whether a life more natural to them would make them better off. On the other hand, up at Grouse Mountain there’s a couple grizzly bears fenced up; they were orphaned cubs found as skin and bones and were taken in by wildlife rescue, brought back to health and given a life up at Grouse in their Endangered Wildlife Refuge. In a case like that it can be a positive thing to take wildlife under human wing, so to say…