Jacques Cousteau was one of the first researchers who found captivity to be dangerous and uneducational. The main goal between the conservationists is to lead these animals to freedom. Richard O Barry, an animal rights activist, has 30 years of experience with dolphins in captivity. He realized he was doing wrong by forcing this dolphin to live in chlorinated waters, and to force it to eat dead fish. After discovering this human cruelty, he had made it his goal in life to lead the dolphins and whales to freedom.
Most people can say that they have been to a marine park or a zoo, so automatically they are guilty.
Thousands of people in this area have supported Pt. Defiance Zoo, as well as many other animal parks and aquariums in the area. The money you give to a park gives them a reason to go out and capture more animals for our educational value . The education that is displayed to us is false because this is not normally how the animal lives. A dolphin doesn't eat dead fish, and it wouldn't even jump out of a fishing net to save it's life.