Published on vocal.media the 21.05.2020. | By: Jenna Deedy
If it were up to animal rights activists, in the future, dolphin robots would replace dolphinariums. The article explains why this doesn’t really work.
Note: The robot idea also ignores a very important pillar of modern zoos and aquariums: research. It is only thanks to dolphinariums that we can study these animals so comprehensively. A robot would make this completely impossible. However, research is the basis needed to fully protect animals. Only last Friday did we publish a video on our YouTube channel that shows how important real dolphins and other marine mammals under human care are, to enable research that helps marine mammals around the world – and especially in nature:
This shows just how important real animals in modern zoos and aquariums are.
