Networks and blogs » swimming with dolphins http://www.nworkz.net Networking and social marketing Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:38:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Teaching Dolphins to Swim http://www.nworkz.net/teaching-dolphins-to-swim/ http://www.nworkz.net/teaching-dolphins-to-swim/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:38:44 +0000 admin92 http://www.nworkz.net/?p=124 I bet you have never heard about someone teaching a dolphin to swim before. Well I guess that isn’t totally true and dolphins learn to swim very well on their own. They aren’t born to swim with humans though and teaching a dolphin to swim with us has to be a hard job. There must be a lot of time and effort that goes into the trainng process of teaching dolphins simple commands. I guess once they learn how to take commands from their handlers, they can be move up the scale in learning. It usually only takes a bucket of fish to get a dolphin going and this is their reward for doing simple command. It’s just like the way you would train a dog and give them treats after obeying. The dolphins prefer something a little more fresher than a doggy treat and a fresh fish to gulp down is fine with them.

I have never swam with the dolphins before but it must be exciting to do. I could see it being a little scary too, because a dolphin has a fin like a shark and has a similar body shape too. Dolphins are friendly around humans and they wouldn’t intentionally harm us. Working with them in water and the amount of power they can generate from swimming probably does lead to some injuries. For the most part, swimming with the dolphins is very safe and I have seen kids doing it before. There is an swimming with the dolphins on my to-do-list and I look forward to the day I can check that one off.

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