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Escape from „Alcatraz” Text and photos jakub banasiak
Dolphinarium owners fear like the plague the news and stories of dolphins, which despite their years spent in a dolphinarium, coped well in the ocean. Over the last few decades, the cases of dolphins taken from dolphinariums, prepared again for life in freedom and successfully restored to the environment have been described in detail. However, the most interesting and spectacular stories are of dolphins' escapes, where the animals themselves decided to abandon the allegedly good and friendly living conditions.
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is worth recalling these stories, because the
cause they will only be dolphins born in captivity
spectre of another dolphinarium, or another
who do not know life in the sea and which cannot
prison for animals, is haunting Europe. The Hun-
be released. After all, they would not survive on
garian investor, the owner of the marine aquar-
their own, without human care… This is a very con-
ium “Tropicarium” in Budapest, wants to expand
venient argument, used in the dolphin business,
his tourist attraction with swimming pools with
also as an excuse for the reproduction of dolphins
dolphins. And like many other investors, he uses
in captivity. The cases of the return of enslaved dol-
the argument that animals will not be harmed, be-
phins to life in the sea put a lie to this argument.
