本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Dolphin and Freedom
May 2010
Hello everyone, my name is XXX. Today I would like to share with you my experience with dolphins, and what I learned from them.
Last Christmas, I went to California with my family to visit Grandma Jane. I was very excited about the trip when I heard the plan of visiting Sea World, a very famous marine park, in San Diego. My parents always take me to different parks every time we travel especially marine parks since I love dolphins very much.
In the Sea World of San Diego, we went to a place called Shamu where different marine animals, dolphins and whales, make a lot of shows. The trainers asked each marine animal to come outside to play in front of the audience. Some of them didn’t want to come outside to meet people; mostly the trainer has to lure them with treats. It was amazing that these marine animals can do many challenging tricks.
On our way back home, we visited Ventura and went on a boat for whale watch. After a long ride in the Pacific Ocean, we still couldn’t find any whales. Suddenly my mom shouted out “I see something over there”. All heads snapped into attention of the direction where my mom pointed and we saw a dolphin’s tail sticking out of the water. Instead of whales, we found dolphins chasing our boat. Seconds later around 10 dolphins were swimming beside our boat! They swam so fast with the boat that they looked like a streak of lightning that are gray and in the water. There was always a dolphin in lead, and they kept on changing the leader when the ex-leader got tired. It was around 30 minutes when they started to leave and I think there were around 30 dolphins playing with us.
It was then I realized that the dolphins in the Sea World weren’t happy. After our trip in California, I thought about what a big difference between the wild dolphins and the show ones. Well, the show dolphins has enough food, shelter and caring from the trainers, but they don’t have freedom! They can’t swim where they want to. They can’t see the whole wide world; all they can see is the audience and the small pool. All they can do is eat, sleep and doing tricks.
Wild dolphins in the ocean might not get enough food or get protected from their predators, but they have freedom! They can go wherever they want, and do whatever they like. They are full of life within the natural habitat, the ocean.
I bet that the dolphins in the Sea World never know what freedom is really like if they were born and kept in the marine park all the time, but they do feel unhappy, since we took a very important part from them - Freedom just for our amusement. I know there are so many people who try very hard to protect or fight for their freedom today. So, how about those animals, our friends on earth, our friends who have no ability to fight for their liberty? Should we just think a little about their life, their happiness and limit to catch them for our amusement and give the freedom back to them?更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net