“In the late 1960s, a park could purchase an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin for about $300. Today, that same species will cost more than $100,000. Indeed, this spike in price has forced zoos to change their entire philosophy. “The attitude was these marine mammals were an expendable commodity,” a former vice president of Sea World confided. “If these animals perished, you’d just go out and replace them. The ease didn’t drive a great deal of research of what they needed to keep them healthy.[...] Yet if “expendability” was the industry’s previous philosophy, “reproduction” came to be its new one.” HealthGreedNeglectAnimalsAnimal CrueltyDolphinsAquariumsCommoditization Book:Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance Source: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance