"About sixty to seventy years." Shen Mochen replied calmly, and then asked: "Then do you know how long the dolphins in the aquarium can live?"
"Fifty years?" Taozi thought for a moment and looked at him uncertainly.
Shen Mochen shook his head gently, with a pair of dark jade-like eyes staring closely at Tao Zi's innocent eyes, and said in a distant voice as if floating from the horizon: "No, about eight years or so.
"
"So short?" Taozi's eyes were full of astonishment, "Why?"
"Because the smile of a dolphin is nature's best disguise." Shen Mochen sighed deeply, looked at Taozi unbearably, and continued: "When we watched the dolphin show in the aquarium, most people were attracted by it.
Their smiles deceive them, but in fact they are not happy."
"Dolphins are animals with very sensitive hearing. Their hearing system is very developed and can distinguish various sounds in the wide sound band from low sound waves to ultrasonic waves. Therefore, their hearing is a thousand times sharper than ours. Precisely because
They are extremely sensitive to sound, so when dolphins are captured by humans and imprisoned in aquariums for entertainment performances, the sound of music, cheers from the audience and various small noises are a continuous auditory experience for them.
Torture.”
Shen Mochen paused, glanced at the noisy crowd around him, frowned and continued: "The huge pressure and harsh sound of the performance caused most of the dolphins to suffer from gastric ulcers, and they had to rely on medication.
Bottles of antacids and gastrointestinal supplements keep them alive and they can continue to show the most gentle and beautiful smile. Even a normal person will go crazy in a highly noisy environment, let alone dolphins
.”
"..." Taozi was silent. She never knew that dolphins were performing with their lives, and she didn't even know that such a performance was a kind of pain to the dolphins. She raised her head and looked at Shen Mochen
There was deep pity in his eyes that were slightly blocked by the hair on his forehead. No wonder he frowned when he said he wanted to go to the dolphin show. She thought he hated crowds. No wonder he was surrounded by people.
When he clapped and shouted vigorously, his face showed no expression. It turned out that he had long known that this was harming the dolphins.
When life becomes so heavy in captivity, when they can no longer cruise in the vast ocean at the speed of a speedboat of forty kilometers per hour, when they can no longer dive to the depth of three hundred meters to play,
They can also be depressed, frustrated, depressed, and even fight to the death.
Richard O'Berry, who was once the world's top dolphin trainer, saw one of his domesticated dolphins commit suicide. The dolphin named Casey swam into Richard's arms and looked directly at him.
She looked at his eyes, took a breath, and then stopped taking in a second breath of air...
Unlike humans, dolphins and other cetaceans do not breathe automatically. Therefore, each breath is a conscious effort for them. Therefore, when they no longer want to bear the pressure of survival, they no longer inhale.
A breath of air is the suicide of a dolphin.
After Taozi learned all this, she suddenly became very depressed.
