IT COSTS 10 EUROS "DONATION" TO PET A DOLPHIN IN ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARK !!! (BUT IF YOU ARE "LUCKY", YOU COULD GET VOLUNTEER TO "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION" AND TOUCH DOLPHIN BY PARKS ADMISSION FEE - BUT OF COURSE FOR "EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES" ONLY!) WHAT KIND OF "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION" TOUCHING A COLPHIN IS ??? In Trip Advisors reviews parent tells four weeks ago in June 2018: "ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARK: WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE FOR CHILDREN TO TOUCH DOLPHINS 10 E DONATION" Links: - Review: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r590109437-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html - Picture 1: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r590109437-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=326109840 - Picture 2: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r590109437-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=326109839 ---------- In Attica Zoological Parks MARKETING- briefing park claims it would tell "THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR DOLPHINS". Here is a grip of the animal CAPTIVITY- MARKETING: "We want again to clarify that at ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARK NO ANIMAL "SHOWS" TAKE PLACE, since it is contradictory to our philosophy and practice. ON THE CONTRARY, WHAT WE DO IS RAISE AWERENESS AND CULTIVATE ENVIROMENTALLY OUR VISITORS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS THAT ACQUAINT THEM WITH MARINE MAMMALS HOSTED IN OUR PARK (equivalent to the educational birds of prey presentations and the informative feeding sessions of various mammals), during which visitors learn about the physiology of marine mammals (or birds, mammals, etc) and the risks they face in Nature because of human behavior, PASSING ON EFFECTIVELY THE MESSAGE OF ECOLOGY AND RESPECT FOR ANIMALS." http://www.atticapark.com/en/news/truth-about-our-dolphins.784.html ---------- I WANT TO ASK: HOW PETTING DOLPHINS- PETTING WILD ANIMALS- "RAISES AWERENESS AND CULTIVATES VISITORS ENVIROMENTALLY"? HOW THIS TOUCHING OF WILD ANIMALS CAN BE CALLED "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION"? WHAT ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARK MEANS, WHEN IT SAYS THAT IT "RESPECTS ITS DOLPHINS"? DOLPHINS MUST BEND AND OBEY FRONT OF TOTALLY STRANGE AND UNPREDICTABLE HUMANS AND SUBMIT THEIR TOUCHES - TO GET FOOD TO EAT!!! THIS TRULY DOES NOT SOUND LIKE ATTICA PARK IS RESPECTING ITS DOLPHINS! THIS "PETTING THE DOLPHINS"- PROGRAM IS TOTALLY WRONG! TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! TOUCHING BY STRANGE HUMANS CAUSES DOLPHINS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STRESS AND ANXIETY! OUTSIDERS BRINGS BACTERIA TO DOLPHINS, THIS CAUSES ANOTHER SEVERE THREATH TO DOLPHINS HEALTH! REALITY THAT DOLPHINS MUST OBEY AND LET PEOPLES- STRANGE PEOPLES- TOUCH THEM AS THEY LIKE! - IS NOT THE "NATURAL BEHAVIOUR" OF THE WILD DOLPHINS! ---------- TOUCHING BY STRANGE HUMANS IS COMMON PRACTICE IN DOLPHINS REALITY IN ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARK, GREECE: JULY 2018 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=887340464791816&set=a.133041700221700.1073741828.100005476110107&type=3&theater JULY 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BlfBdwfliMy/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark JULY 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BlabyeXFJkd/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark JULY 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BlVnjyYnDc_/?hl=fi&taken-by=kwnstantina_zav JULY 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BkwLfQnhldc/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark JUNE 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BjIMHTgFLaC/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark APRIL 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BiMSk0nFDf9/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark APRIL 2017 https://www.tripadvisor.fi/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r478772323-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=253038911 OCTOBER 2016 Picture Daniel Turner, Born Free Foundation http://animalia.fi/2017/01/27/attican-loput-delfiinit-saatava-turvakotiin/ (In the picture blond- haired woman is finnish dolphin trainer Sari Järvisalo from Särkänniemi amusement park, Tampere, Finland.) ---------- Videos from Attica Zoological Park Dolphinariums "educational presentations" shows that "PETTING THE DOLPHIN"- programs are usual part of so- called "EDUCATION": THE MOST IMPORTAT QUESTIONS ARE: 1. IS THIS DOLPHINS "NATURAL BEHAVIOUR"- LET STRANGE HUMANS TO TOUCH DOLPHINS? 2. WHAT KIND OF "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION" INCLUDES IN SITUATION WHERE TOTALLY STRANGE HUMAN IS PETTING THE DOLPHIN? - OCTOBER 2017 3:28- 3:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJGgyeEUtug - NOVEMBER 2017 8:45- 9:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=EgDP4hkT2Co - OCTOBER 2015 3:47- 4:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQs7ZfYmg4 PS. Picture by Jo-Anne McArthur, We animals- project. "Dolphin Quest at the Kahala Hotel in Hawaii. 2012." http://weanimals.org/gallery.php?id=95#ph52