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...mistreatment, they say, is only the most blatant form of abuse; another is keeping animals in cramped spaces. Says Richard O'Barry, who trained five Flippers for the 1960s TV show and then became a marine-mammal activist: "Whales and dolphins live in a world of sound. In a tank, their sounds only bounce back at them. It's like living in a hall of mirrors. It has to drive them crazy." In fact, dolphins have been known to kill themselves by , banging into concrete walls; they also have taken up masturbation, which is rarely seen in the wild...
...uninterested manner." Sea World execs charge that the movie is inaccurate on many levels, from the miraculously rapid affinity between Jesse and Willy to the malicious characterization of trainers, park staff and visitors. In one scene, dozens of customers bang interminably on the glass wall of Willy's tank, inciting the whale to a destructive frenzy. No security guard is in sight...
...Willy whales may soon go on tour. Animatronic Willy is set for a promotional jaunt. And real Willy -- Keiko -- will have to find less confining quarters. It is in danger of growing too large for its Mexico City tank. As co-producer Jennie Lew Tugend notes sadly, "It's a 22-ft. whale in a tank that's only 15 ft. deep...
Variations: Skip the boat ride and just hung out in the Aquarium and look at the fish in the big tank. It's air-conditioned...
They played "Push It." They spun a fully functional, non-ironic disco ball. The dance floor, smaller than a New-bury Street cafe, collected tank-topped citizens of every neighborhood in Eastern Massachusetts. You could warm up here for an evening spent strolling along Revere Beach, hunting for your perfect Kelly's-roast-beef-eating, IROC-Z driving soul mate...