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Another Baby Has Died at SeaWorld

A newborn Commerson’s dolphin has died at SeaWorld’s Aquatica water park in Orlando, Florida—just minutes after being born.

News broke early last month that the newborn’s mother, Ringer, was pregnant, even though park officials claim that employees had been giving her birth control and previously stated that they had no plans to breed Commerson’s dolphins (also known as a “skunk dolphins” or “panda dolphins”) or bring any more into the park. But despite Ringer’s sad history of inbreeding and failed pregnancies, they allowed her to become pregnant again.

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Ringer has been pregnant several times, and all of her babies have died. At least one of the pregnancies was by her own father, and there’s a good chance that this latest baby was inbred as well. The park never announced who the father was, but of the three male dolphins Ringer lives with, one is her father and another is her half-brother. Seriously, WTF!?

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Like all the animals it holds captive, Commerson’s dolphins have a heartbreaking history at the park. In 1983, SeaWorld captured 12 of them from their home waters in Chile to display at its San Diego park. Only half of them survived longer than six months.

(Commerson’s Dolphin | bfurlong | CC BY-SA 2.0)

In nature, dolphins don’t need to take birth control and they don’t breed with their family members. They raise their own babies and teach them to dive, jump, and play in the open ocean. A cramped tank is no life for a baby dolphin or any other wild animal.

(IMG_1937 | ravas51 | CC BY-SA 2.0)

What You Can Do

Never go to any SeaWorld park, and tell the company to stop making excuses and put a plan in motion to retire the captive animals to sea sanctuaries where they’ll have a more spacious environment and some semblance of a normal life.

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Horror in the Cove

I know the cove doesn’t get a mention much here anymore, but everyone needs to know what is going on right now.

On the 20th of January a superpod of around 200 bottlenose dolphins were driven into the cove.

They were surrounded by nets and left overnight before the captive selection process began. So far 82 dolphins have been taken for the captivity industry, most of them calves taken from their frantic mothers.

Each day, for around 7 hours, the dolphin have faced the trauma of being manhandled by hunters and trainers. The people responsible are as usual driving their boats straight through the pod without any shred of decency. Dolphins have been repeatedly tangled in the nets attempting to reunited with their pod members. They are starving, dehydrated and exhausted, and at least 2 dolphins have died, either from stress or injury sustained during their harrowing ordeal.

This horrendous torture will continue tomorrow, it is likely that even more dolphins will be taken for the captivity industry. It is not yet known if any individuals will be slaughtered.

This is not tradition.

This is barbarism. This is greed.

*Update 1. The estimated pod size has now been increased to 300 animals. The captures are ongoing, 2 more dolphins have died*

*Update 2. 100 Bottlenose Dolphins were captured and transferred to the sea pens for a life of confinement. Of those that survive the first months of confinement, half will be dead in under 7 years. The 2/3 of the pod that were driven back out to sea are exhausted, injured, dehydrated and traumatized. Its is highly likely there will be more fatalities among the survivors, especially among the very young calves.