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which Hved for another nine months, became Marineland's star turn. 

 Then it was suddenly set upon by the dolphins and fatally injured. Two 

 of the Pilot Whales captured in 1958 were flown to a branch of Marineland 

 in California, where they became acclimatized very soon. In addition, 

 Marineland also kept a single Pigmy Sperm Whale for some time. 



Marineland attracted so much public attention that, not surprisingly, 

 similar aquaria have sprung up in other parts of the New World during 

 the last fifteen years: The Living Sea Gulfarium at Fort Walton Beach 

 (Florida) ; The Lerner Marine Laboratory in Bimini (Bahamas) ; The 

 Marineland of the Pacific (a Californian branch of Marineland, Florida); 

 and The Ocean Aquarium at Hermosa Beach near Los Angeles, also in 

 California. For some time the Silv'er Springs Aquarium (Florida) con- 

 tained two Boutus, caught in the Amazon and transported by air; the 

 other aquaria contain Bottlenose Dolphins, and The Marineland of the 

 Pacific keeps Common Dolphins, some specimens of the Pacific White- 

 beaked Dolphin {Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) and a Pacific Pilot Whale 

 {Globicephala scammoni). Australian Bottlenose Dolphins are kept in The 

 Coolangatta Aquarium in Sydney and in The Service Paradise Aquarium 

 near Brisbane. In Japan their North Pacific relatives live in an aquarium 

 at Enoshima. However, for our purposes, Florida's Marineland has 

 remained the most important, since it is here that most of the scientific 

 reseaixh work on the behaviour of dolphins has been carried out under 

 such 'eminent men as Kellogg and Wood, though during the past few 

 years biologists at The Marineland of the Pacific (amongst them Norris 

 and Brown) have also begun to publish important papers. 



In particular, these aquaria have provided a wealth of data on the 

 sense organs, the production of sound, the diet, birth and general 

 behaviour of Cetaceans, to which we shall have to return time and again 

 in the following chapters. We, in Europe, have good reason to feel 

 envious, for few of our zoos or aquaria have large enough tanks to keep 

 dolphins for any length of time. Moreover, capture and transport still 

 seem to present insuperable difficulties over here. Monaco and Plymouth 

 have made some efforts during the last few years to overcome them, but 

 so far with little success, although Monaco kept three Common Dolphins 

 in captivity in 1958. True, there have been sporadic cases of dolphins 

 being kept in captivity in Europe, but such cases are few and far between. 

 Thus the Bottlenose Dolphin which spent a few months at the Biological 

 Station at Arcachon in 1873, and on which Jolyet performed the first 

 experiments on Cetacean respiration, was an exception. The Copenhagen 

 Zoo once managed to keep a porpoise for a short time, and the West- 

 minster Aquarium in London boasted two Belugas at different times - one 

 in 1877 and another in 1878. The first came from Labrador, the second 



