José Luis Barbero, a trainer who was recently shown in a video allegedly mistreating dolphins at a marine park in Mallorca, Spain, will be a senior vice president at the Atlanta aquarium.

In a statement emailed to The Dodo, Mike Leven, chairman and CEO of Georgia Aquarium, said that the facility has a "zero tolerance policy against the mistreatment of any of our animals" and that the footage was not taken at a facility belonging to the Georgia Aquarium.

Barbero, who had worked at Marineland Mallorca since the 1980s, left his post there Friday after announcing his move to the Georgia Aquarium. On Tuesday, the animal advocacy group SOSdelfines posted a video of Barbero allegedly hitting, kicking, jumping on and screaming expletives at the Spanish park's dolphins.