Dolphins don't belong in the desert

I’m running out of ways to say the same thing.

First there was the dolphin called Bodie. Then Alia. Then Khloe.

Now, a fourth dolphin, Kai, has died at the human playland/dolphin gulag called Dolphinaris, the aquatic Alcatraz on reservation land off Loop 101 and Via de Ventura Boulevard near Scottsdale.

It’s not complicated.

Dolphins don’t belong in a desert.

A pool is not the 'natural world'

Dolphins don’t belong in what amounts to water-filled concrete cells so that paying customers can indulge their desire to “interact.” The Mexico-based company behind the attraction tries to justify its money-grubbing enterprise by saying that keeping dolphins in such a place and charging humans a fat price to hang out with them in a pool will somehow “deepen respect for dolphins and our natural world.”

A swimming pool is not the “natural world.”

And how do you deepen respect for ocean-dwelling creatures by locking them up in a desert?

These dolphins have committed no crime. They are guilty only of begin smart, social, handsome, outgoing and intelligent.

They’re often called the second most intelligent species on earth. Behind us. Then again, I can’t imagine dolphins locking humans into a cell and charging other dolphins an exorbitant amount of money to mingle with us, so…

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