Chapter 69: The Troubles of the Dolphins
"Ah Jing, what is this Mr. Xue asking you to do, watching dolphins?" Shi Qing leaned close to Su Jing's ear and whispered.
"There was a dolphin that refused to eat and refused to obey, so let me see what was wrong with it. Su Jing smiled.
"Don't people have veterinarians and trainers, why do you want to watch it?" Shi Qing felt a little strange, but remembering that Su Jing could tame a killer whale so successfully, she couldn't help but suddenly realize, and glanced at Su Jing curiously, thinking that Su Jing seemed to have somehow become a senior animal trainer?
"It's here. Xue Zonghong opened a door and walked into a huge swimming pool with Su Jing and Shi Qing. I saw that several trainers on the shore were directing several dolphins in the swimming pool, letting them do various actions and carry out various training. However, there was a dolphin hiding in a corner, refusing to move no matter how much the trainer commanded it.
"Brother Xue. ”
"Brother Xue, you're here. ”
The trainers obviously respected Xue Zonghong very much, and they greeted each other one after another.
Seeing Su Jing and Shi Qing, there was a trace of doubt on their faces, because this is a place to train dolphins, and outsiders are generally not allowed to come in, not to mention that they are training now, and outsiders are not allowed to disturb them.
"Brother Xue, come and see, Xiao Chong is still not willing to eat and is disobedient. The melon seed-faced female training camp in the corner said with a bitter face.
"Let this Mr. Su take a look. Xue Zonghong said.
"He?" The melon-faced female trainer was stunned, and the other trainers also looked at Su Jing in surprise, thinking that they had heard it wrong.
"Brother Xue, you said that you want to invite a clever trainer to come, is it?" The melon seed face trainer looked stunned, yesterday I heard Xue Zonghong say that when they saw a very clever trainer, they all admired it a little, after all, Xue Zonghong is simply an authority in this regard, even a figure that he admires so much, can it be simple? However, this person is too young, right?
"Xiaomei, get out of the way. Xue Zonghong didn't explain too much.
"Oh. Although Gu Mei was puzzled, she still obediently let go.
"Little guy, what's wrong with you?" Su Jing walked forward and squatted down, only to see a dolphin with a length of more than three meters hiding in the corner of the pool, looking sullen, and did not react when he heard Su Jing's words.
"Can you help stabilize it?" Su Jing turned to Gu Mei and said.
"Okay. When Gu Mei heard Su Jing's request for help, she did not look down on Su Jing's level, but appreciated it more, no matter how clever the trainer was, he had to have a process of familiarizing himself with the animal, and it was extremely unwise to ignore the help of the previous trainer. Gu Mei stretched out her hand to support the dolphin's head, and reached out to gently stroke it on the dolphin's head.
Su Jing slowly approached, and also reached out to stroke the dolphin, this dolphin looked weak, did not resist at all, Su Jing put his hand under the water, secretly pricked a needle on it, so that a drop of blood dripped on the Ten Thousand Beasts card.
"I'm in so much pain, I want to die. A childish voice came into Su Jing's ears.
"What's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?" Su Jing was startled by this immature voice, it seems that this dolphin is not too willing to eat, and it actually has suicidal tendencies.
"Every time I performed, everybody was too noisy. The dolphin turned his head and looked at it, as if he wondered why he was able to talk to Su Jing.
"Too noisy?" Su Jing was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he understood, in fact, he had heard before that dolphins had far more hearing than humans, so the applause and cheers were very loud noises for them, some dolphins could tolerate it, but some couldn't. Xue Zonghong said that this dolphin is especially smart and popular, and it is the most enthusiastic to cheer when it appears. The audience was greeting, unaware that it was a torture for the dolphins.
In fact, there has been a lot of controversy about whether dolphins should be kept in captivity. Many people feel that dolphins have a high IQ second only to humans, they have emotions similar to humans, and they should not be kept in captivity, and humans do not fully understand dolphins, and many self-righteous behaviors of humans actually cause various harm to dolphins. Suicides of captive dolphins have also occurred more than once.
This made Su Jing suddenly think of a legend - Richard O'Berry, since 1960, Richard O'Berry is a world-renowned dolphin trainer, through "Dolphin Story" and "Feibao" and other film and television works famous, it can be said that he is synonymous with dolphin training and dolphin performance, he founded the dolphin show so that a whole generation of American children when asked "what do you want to do when you grow up" without hesitation to answer "marine biologist".
However, just as he was making a name for himself and aquariums and dolphin shows were popping up all over the world, he chose to destroy the entertainment industry he had built with his own hands. The reason is that one day that year, after O'Berry returned from a trip to India, one of the dolphins in "Feibao", Casey, who is also O'Barry's favorite dolphin, swam into O'Berry's arms, took a breath, consciously closed his nostrils, and committed suicide in his arms.
O'Berry was shocked by this event, and he suddenly felt that dolphin hunting and training was so stupid and ridiculous, so he vowed to spend his life defending the dolphins' right to live, he founded the Dolphin Project, and launched the campaign to release dolphins in captivity, he spent ten years as a dolphin trainer, but spent forty years in conservation against dolphin training. For this reason, Auberry has been arrested all over the world for trespassing on someone's private property - dolphins.
"Your name is Xiao Chong, right?" Su Jing stroked the dolphin's head and said, he would not be as extreme as O'Berry, in fact, dolphins still like to come into contact with humans, and captivity also plays a great role in the understanding and protection of dolphins, which has advantages and disadvantages, and cannot be killed with a stick.
"Yes. The dolphin nodded.
"I'll let everyone not make noise in the future, don't you be unhappy, okay?" Su Jing said.
"Can you really keep people from making noise?" said the dolphin's voice full of surprise, and perhaps its biggest pain before was that humans didn't understand it.
"I promise you, if you quarrel again, I'll take you out into the sea. ”
"Thank you. The dolphin screamed, and affectionately arched Su Jing's hand with his head, although the dolphin has high intelligence, it is also relative to animals, and compared to humans, it can only be regarded as a child at most, so naturally there is no scheming to think about whether Su Jing is lying to it.
Seeing the dolphin's reaction like this, Xue Zonghong's eyes lit up, Gu Mei's eyes widened, and the other trainers gathered around with a look of surprise. Shi Qing also opened her eyes wide and looked curiously.
"I heard that you are a fast swimmer, why don't we compare it?" Su Jing changed the subject.
"Not like you. The dolphin looked a little disdainful.
"Oh, you're afraid you won't be able to swim me?" Su Jing smiled.
"How could I not swim you, than you compare. "The dolphin screamed, it was like a child, and it was easy to get excited.
"One, two, three, start. Su Jing said as he jumped into the pool and swam forward quickly. The dolphin set off a little late, but overtook Su Jing at a gallop, and then quickly swam back and forth, and then caught up with Su Jing, and Su Jing had not been able to swim to one-third of the length of the pool.
"You're swimming so slowly. The dolphin didn't get far away from Su Jing this time, and deliberately stayed in front of Su Jing, and there was a kind of banter in his eyes. also deliberately flicked his tail and splashed water on Su Jing's face.
"Stop. Su Jing suddenly pounced and fell on the dolphin, and the dolphin played with Su Jing like a child.
Looking at this scene, Xue Zonghong, Gu Mei, Shi Qing and other trainers on the shore were completely dumbfounded.