Last Straw

One of human­it­ies more ana­chron­istic activ­it­ies of the day is the con­tinu­ation of keep­ing ceta­cea (dol­phins and whales) in con­crete pools in order to train them, an activ­ity which became fash­ion­able back in the 1940s. In essence it is no dif­fer­ent from the old attempts to sat­isfy human curi­os­ity by means of per­form­ing anim­als in miser­able trav­el­ling cir­cuses or show­men with their piti­ful dan­cing bear acts.