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Month June 2000

Marineland: past its use-by date

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.