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Dolphinarium in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, Dutch newsreel from 1966. Though cetaceans have been held in captivity in both North America and Europe by 1860—Boston Aquarial Gardens in 1859 and pairs of beluga whales in Barnum's American Museum in New York City museum— [3] [4] dolphins were first kept for paid entertainment in the Marine Studios dolphinarium founded in 1938 in St. Augustine ...
This is a non-exhaustive list of known dolphinariums worldwide. Many of these places are more than just dolphinariums; the list includes themeparks, marine mammal parks, zoos or aquariums that may also have more than one species of dolphin.
It is especially well known for its dolphinarium and, since 1994, for breeding koalas. Far less well known are the breeding successes in other areas, for example, with fossas (carnivorous mammals from Madagascar) and red river hogs. The zoo is located in the northern part of the Duisburg urban forest on the border with Mülheim on the Ruhr.
Dubai Dolphinarium is a 5,000-square-meter (54,000 sq ft) modern indoor facility with around 1250 seating capacity for Dolphin & Seal Show. The Dolphins have their own private habitat area with 600 cubic metres (160,000 US gal) of sea water connected to the main arena pool.
The Dolphin Research Center (DRC) is a dolphinarium on Grassy Key, Florida. The 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2 ) series of saltwater lagoons is home to several dolphins and California sea lions . History
SEA LIFE Brighton, known originally as Brighton Aquarium and then from 1969 until 1991 as Brighton Aquarium and Dolphinarium, is an aquarium attraction in Brighton, part of the English seaside city of Brighton and Hove.
The underwater restaurant. The Oceanographic is the largest complex of its type in Europe, spanning 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) and holding a capacity of 42,000,000 litres (11,000,000 US gal) of water, [1] including a 26,000,000-litre (6,900,000 US gal) dolphinarium and a 7,000,000-litre (1,800,000 US gal) ocean tank with sharks, rays and other fish. [1]
It counts with a main tank and two holding tanks in total the dolphinarium holds 2,500,000 liters of saltwater, with filtration systems and monitoring at every time. [8] At one side of the main tank a clinical laboratory is found, with instrumentation where blood samples can be taken and analyzed from the dolphins.