Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 22774 Pacific Coast Hwy. They were part of shipment of one Beluga Whale and four dolphins being shipped from Russia to Argentina.
Owners are therefore very interested in acquiring pregnant animals.
Investigations by Sea Shepherd Brazil and Sea Shepherd Europe found that the five marine mammals where flown to Frankfurt on a Russian cargo flight. There they were reloaded into a Lufthansa plane after a veterinarian at the Frankfurt airport certified that the animals were fit for further transport. Most of these animals captured from the wild die in transport. The ones who survive have a pitiful existence in concrete baths. Every visitor to a dolphinarium should be conscious that the animals have gone through hell to get there, and were forcibly separated from their families.