海豚館
海豚館（海豚水族館）係專門養海豚嘅海獸館、水族館。海豚通常畀人困住響一個大水池裏面。飼養鯨豚類嘅風氣大約喺1860年代開始出現，而第一個正式用作商業嘅海豚館喺1938年開業。直到1970年代，關注動物權益風氣一度收緊對海豚水族館嘅經營，但並無影響歐洲、日本同北美洲嘅擴張。
海豚水族館主要養樽鼻海豚。
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The water in the pools has to be constantly filtered to keep it clean for the dolphins and the spectators, and the temperature and composition of the water has to be controlled to match the conditions dolphins experience in the wild. In the absence of a common international regulation, guidelines regarding the minimum size of the pools vary between countries.[1] To give an indication of pool sizes, the European Association for Aquatic Mammals recommends that a pool for five dolphins should have a surface area of 275 m2（2,960 sq ft） plus an additional 75 m2（810 sq ft） for every additional animal, have a depth of 3.5 m（11 ft） for at least the minimum surface area and have a water volume of at least 1,000 m3（35,000 cu ft） with an additional 200 m3（7,100 cu ft） for every additional animal. If two of these three conditions are met and the third is not more than 10% below standard, the EAAM considers the pool size to be acceptable.[2]
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編輯- ↑ "UNEP:Guidelines and criteria associated with marine mammal captivity". 2006. 原著喺8 March 2017歸檔. 喺22 November 2009搵到.
- ↑ Recommended EAAM dolphin housing standards[失咗效嘅鏈], retrieved 22 November, 2009
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編輯Johnson, William (April 1994). The Rose-tinted Menagerie. Heretic Books. ISBN 978-0946097289.