Dolphins Save, Why Can't You?

[a_chan01]

Well, a few months ago one of my oldest and closest friends Meaghan showed me a documentary called The Cove, which is about the terrible dolphin slaughters going on in a small coastal town called Taiji, Japan. The hunts are not regulated by the International Whaling Commission (IWC for short) and the townsfolk do so in a shameful and secretive way

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[xdaysleeperx]

I didn't realize that documentary was about the dolphin slaughter...I thought it was like Planet Earth except aquatic life! :(

[a_chan01]

Oh gosh no, it's the exact opposite, really, instead of revealing the beauty of nature it reveals the ugliness of human nature, if you let it get that way.

I think everyone needs to watch it, just to familiarize themselves with what's going on.

[a_chan01]

Well, it isn't YOUR fault, you had no idea! I'm saying in the future.

What happens is, these theme parks purchase trained dolphins who are purchased from towns like Taiji (which is the biggest supplier I think...Meaghan would know better) and when the trainers are done choosing the dolphins they want (predominantly female bottle nose dolphins, like Flipper) the rest are slaughtered and sold as meat.

Also, dolphins do terribly in captivity. They can literally commit suicide (the first Flipper actually did this) develope ulcers and become severely depressed. A lot of places like Sea World actually feed them antiulcer medications in their food automatically to avoid this, but that's treating a symptom and not the disease.