IMAGES have been released showing children petting a group of dolphins at a Californian swimming pool. On first viewing they look like the kind of marine creatures that may jump through hoops and p…
IMAGES have been released showing children petting a group of dolphins at a Californian swimming pool.
As the brain-child of a group of New Zealand entrepreneurs, the ultra-realistic animatronics can behave like the real thing and can swim under water without intervention. It's hoped that that the life-like animatronics could one day entertain crowds at theme parks, instead of wild animals held in captivity.
PETA activists Katherine Sullivan added: “There is an end in sight to cruel ‘swim with dolphins’ programs, for which young dolphins are traumatically abducted from their ocean homes and frantic mothers, sometimes illegally.”Their CEO, Walti Conti, now believes that the animatronics may bring back audiences turned off by parks using live animals.