ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARKS "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS" INCLUDES ACCORDING TO ATTICA'S CLAIM ALLEGEDLY DOLPHINS "NATURAL BEHAVIOUR": - DOLPHINS SLIDING OVER CONCRETE FLOORS - DOLPHINS SLIDING TO CONCRETE FLOORS AND POSING TO HUMANS - DOLPHIN SPLASHING WATER OVER HUMANS- AFTER HUMANS SPLASHES WATER FIRST OVER DOlPHIN Dolphins also example flapped their fins ja walk with their tails. In nature you dont see behaviour like this. These all are tricks dolphins must do that they would have food, dead fishs to eat. ......DOES SOMEONE REALLY BELIEVE THAT THESE ARE "DOLPHINS NATURAL BEHAVIOURS" - WHICH IT DOES WHEN IT LIVES IN SEA FREE WITHOUT HUMANS PRESENCE? BUT......where dolphins find concrete floors- or cliffs- in the open sea? Do free dolphins search humans to whom they can posture? Do dolphins search peoples from the sea, who would splash water over dolphins- so dolphins can fulfill their need to splash water over peoples? "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS" THROUGH "DOLPHINS NATURAL BEHAVIOUR" IN ATTICA PARK... THEY MUST BE JOKING, RIGHT? WHAT THESE PRESENTATIONS TEACH TO HUMANS? WHAT IS THESE ACTIONS EDUCATIONAL VALUE? NOTHING. THERE IS NO VALUE. THERE IS NO RESPECT. THERE IS NO EDUCATION. THERE IS NO NATURAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE DOLPHINS. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE THING IN CAPTIVITY THAT IS NATURAL TO THESE DOLPHINS. ------ 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 DOLPHINS SLIDING OVER CONCRETE FLOORS "RAISES AWERENESS AND CULTIVATES VISITORS ENVIROMENTALLY"? - HOW DOLPHINS SLIDING TO CONCRETE FLOORS AND POSING TO HUMANS CAN BE CALLED "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATION"? - HOW DOLPHIN SPLASHING WATER OVER HUMANS- AFTER HUMANS SPLASH WATER FIRST OVER DOlPHIN "RAISES AWERENESS AND CULTIVATES VISITORS ENVIROMENTALLY"? - WHAT ATTICA ZOOLOGICAL PARK MEANS, WHEN IT SAYS THAT IT "RESPECTS ITS DOLPHINS"? - HOW COME DOLPHINS SLIDING IN HARD CONCRETE FLOORS, POSING TO HUMANS, WATER SPLASHING AND OBEDIENCE UNDER STRANGE HUMANS PETTING FULLFILLS "RESPECTING DOLPHINS"? DOLPHINS MUST OBEY TO GET FOOD! THIS TRULY DOES NOT SOUND LIKE ATTICA PARK IS RESPECTING ITS DOLPHINS! ------ Pictures of ATTICA PARKS "EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONS": - April 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BhKAvEFHcBh/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark - April 2018 https://www.tripadvisor.fi/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r571985878-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=311749170 - September 2017 https://www.instagram.com/p/BZhDV0ShLFT/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark - May 2017 https://www.tripadvisor.fi/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r483586592-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=255830578 - April 2017 https://www.tripadvisor.fi/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r479942395-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=253700927 https://www.tripadvisor.fi/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r479942395-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=253700925 - April 2017 https://www.tripadvisor.fi/ShowUserReviews-g562627-d566806-r478244999-Attica_Zoological_Park-Spata_East_Attica_Region_Attica.html#photos;aggregationId=&albumid=&filter=2&ff=252754871 - November 2016 https://www.instagram.com/p/BMpQFlgjn37/?hl=fi&tagged=atticazoologicalpark ------ Videomaterial from dolphin shows - November 2017 2:03- 2:14 SLIDING TO CONCRETE FLOOR AND POSING TO AUDIENCE 6:58- 7:02 SLIDING OVER CONCRETE FLOOR 8:26- 8:29 SPLASHING WATER TO DOLPHINS- SPLASHING WATER TO HUMAN 8:45- 9:05 PETTING A DOLPHIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=EgDP4hkT2Co - October 2017 1:19- 1:28 SLIDING OVER CONCRETE FLOOR 3:05- 3:09 SPLASHING WATER TO DOLPHINS- SPLASHING WATER TO HUMAN 3:24- 3:46 PETTING A DOLPHIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJGgyeEUtug - July 2017 1:03- 1:25 SLIDING TO CONCRETE FLOOR AND POSING TO AUDIENCE https://novom.ru/en/watch/D1rvdYbgYnY - February 2017 1:12- 1:30 SLIDING TO CONCRETE FLOOR AND POSING TO AUDIENCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXizeBS3huU - October 2015 0:04- SLIDING OVER CONCRETE FLOOR 1:27- 1:33 SPLASHING WATER TO DOLPHINS- SPLASHING WATER TO HUMAN 3:42- 4:24 PETTING A DOLPHIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQs7ZfYmg4 ------ - Official document of Greek law, Animal Welfare Law (4039/12) ENGLISH: https://greeceexposed.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/animal-welfare-law-4039-12-amendments-4235-14.pdf GREEK: https://dasarxeio.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/cebdcebfcebccebfcf83-4039_2012.pdf https://www.kodiko.gr/nomologia/document_navigation/115478/nomos-4039-2012 ------ PS. About Attica parks "Petting a dolphin"- programs there is own petition update: https://www.change.org/p/attica-zoo-and-s%C3%A4rk%C3%A4nniemi-stop-veera-the-dolphins-transfer-away-from-her-pod/u/23044360 PS2. Pictures source: https://www.facebook.com/delfinschutz/photos/a.215071133735.132318.215061988735/10155890684168736/?type=3&theater