Sea World miscellaneous

Going to Sea World sparked a debate. What is better/worse for the animals? Being in a zoo or being at Sea World. On one hand, the zoo at least attempts to keep the animals wild and doesn't let people fawn all over them. But there are the small cages and the fact that most animals in a zoo don't seem to happy. So, on the other hand, you have Sea World, who exploits the animals, lets them get fawned over by people, but man do those animals seem happy when they are doing tricks! So, its a pickle. Teach the animals to be a bunch of beggers or keep them more in their natural state?







Anyway, since you can feed the dolphins at Sea World -- why not do it. They are trained to come up to you, let you pet them a time or two and then open their mouth and get some fish. So, when you get them to come over and you don't actually have fish to give them. Well, they seem a little disappointed in you. And you can't help but feel a little guilty.

And a lesson for all you beginners out there. Do not splash your hand in the water. They are trained to come over to an outstretched hand, held flat over the water:



And as I said, you feel all cool that you get one to come over and then you have to deal with this...them pathetically holding their mouth open because they expect some fish. And you don't have any left, because it's 6 fricken dollars for three of them and you can't afford to keep feeding them. So what do you do? You point at the dolphin and in your best helmet voice, you say: "FOOLED YOU! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FELL FOR THAT!" Good times.