A CRUMBLING CASE FOR CETACEAN CAPTIVITY?

So now that you have seen how amazing California sea lions can be we should get back to looking for the next
object, and we have one more group of marine mammals who still need to come out and those are the dolphins.
So let’s hear it for Marineland’s five Bottlenose dolphins.
Ladies and gentlemen, Marineland’s five Bottlenose dolphins.
They are going to need some help finding the next object so I need the most excited person who wants to meet
a dolphin.
The young lady in the pink sweater and the dress wearing black leggings, make your way down to the platform
here.
If you haven’t been to Friendship Cove yet today make sure you visit our killer whale, Kiska. To biologists, killer
whales are considered cousins of the dolphin family so they are cousins to these Bottlenose dolphins here.
And today our volunteer will be meeting Lida.
The first thing our volunteer will be doing is (muffled).
Dolphins are very tactile and love to be touched and rubbed. If you ever wondered what a dolphin feels like it’s
kind of like a wet rubber inner tube.
Our volunteer is going to feed Lida a fish.
Here at Marineland our Bottlenose dolphins eat a diet of capelin, herring and some sometimes squid.
And now it seems that Lida is singing her volunteer a song. And it looks like one of Lida’s dolphin friends Tsunami
is looking for the next object, and she has found it. So we have found another one of King Waldorf’s objects.
And now a big dolphin high five to Lida and then a wave goodbye so she can get back to the show. And a
souvenir for our volunteer will be she will remember the time she petted Lida the dolphin. And don’t worry
there are still some more high flying ariels to come from Sonar, Marina, Tsunami, Echo and of course Lida.
If you point your cameras to the centre platform you can get a picture of Marineland’s Bottlenose dolphins.
And one more time.
And let’s hear it for Sonar, Marina Tsunami, Echo, and Lida, Marineland’s five Bottlenose dolphins.
Alright, so now it’s time to see if we collected enough of King Waldorf’s objects to be able to open the chest. Go
ahead and try to open it up. You weren’t able to open the chest? Okay why don’t you try? You can’t do it either?
Try it together. There you go. I guess the real treasure was teamwork after all.
So on behalf of the marine mammal staff, California sea lions, Belugas and Bottlenose dolphins, we wish you a
whale of a day here at Marineland.
Bye Bye for now.
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