We love swimming with dolphins! It seems like no matter where you vacation these days, there is some attraction where you can swim with them, meet them, touch them, etc.
A new study is showing that as tourists, we might actually be hurting dolphins! This is the exact opposite of what we want!
Apparently when tourists swim with dolphins, they are interrupting their natural routines, such as resting and feeding. While the dolphins seem to enjoy swimming with tourists, we ultimately do them more harm than good.
One of the major routines we are interrupting is reproducing! Let us tell you, we certainly don’t like to be interrupted when we’re doing it! So let’s not do it to them!
We should be more careful with dolphins. They are one of the only other self-aware animals on the planet other than ourselves.
Respect animals and their lives! Don’t interfere with them!
If you want to check our more about how humans are hurting dolphins, check out the film The Cove.
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