When you go see a dolphin show at some sea life attraction what you do not know is how the dolphins most likely may have been captured. Too many times whole families of dolphins are rounded up at sea and herded into shallow waters where a few of the cute young ones are netted and sent off to be trained and raised in captivity, while the rest of the family, up to 30 or more dolphins, may be killed for sport or meat.
All this just so humans can be entertained at some marine park. Critics feel dolphins are too intelligent and friendly, by nature, to have to endure this inhumane fate. SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: A WILDLIFE FILMMAKER TURNED WHISTLEBLOWER MAY 2000