Close-ups with Dolphins boost park's cash flow

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1. Hmmm...

http://www.miamiseaprison.com/faq.htm

The Seaquarium's first Orca Hugo was captured from the same pod as Lolita. He was worked to death in just 10 years. The Seaquarium tossed his body in the Dade County dump.

Throughout the entire park there is not one memorial for Hugo to be found! He's a forgotten soul, a victim to a heartless industry, lost forever, but not forgotten. >>HUGO<<

http://www.miamiseaprison.com/Hugo.htm

Hugo and Lolita performed their daily routines, but on many occasions Hugo simply refused and acted aggressively, according to one of their first trainers in 1970. His dorsal fin soon flopped over. He repeatedly bashed his head against the wall and against the viewing windows. He broke several windows, once nearly severing the tip of his rostrum, which had to be sewn back on.

In March, 1980, according the National Marine Fisheries Service Marine Mammal Inventory Report, Hugo died of a brain aneurysm, which means a massive hemorrhage from bashing his head against the wall.

http://www.miamiseaprison.com/manatee.htm

(Manatee Tub)

Interesting fact: This is where we kept our first Orca Hugo. Pretty Funny huh? He was 20 feet long and weighed 6000 pounds.

When trainers used to feed Hugo his tail would be lying on the bottom and his head was completely out of the water. A pretty funny site: a whale in a teacup.

http://www.miamiseaprison.com/tank.htm

Lolita's Tank

Or the "Whale Puddle" as we lovingly refer to it here at the Miami Seaquarium. Believe it or not, Lolita's concrete chlorinated pool doesn't even meet government minimum standards (which is dismally insufficient in the first place). And the public can't do anything about it. We know, because they've tried.

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The Seaquarium has been promising the public a new larger tank for Lolita since 1978 - That's 25 years.