Dolphin and whale species in captivity

Seaworld Orlando: Killer whale, false killer whale, bottlenose dolphin, beluga whale

Seaworld San Diego: Pilot whale, killer whale, beluga whale, commerson's dolphin

Just for starters...
 
Yeah ISIS list some but unless you go looking for every species individually its hard to get a comprehensive list. I know that seaworld have a great collection and I believe they have some hybrids aswell. Common dolphins x bottlenose and bottlenose x Rissos dolphin and of course there is the "wholphin" in hawaii. An aquarium in canada have pacific white sided dolphins and I believe there is a dolphinarium in holland with a harbour porpoise show! duisburger of course have the river dolphins. There must be a list online somwhere of all speices.
 
hardewijk has indeed harbour porpoises. Former stranded animals that couldnt be returned back into the wild, the same counts for the harbour porpoises in the Fjord and Baelt Center in Denmark.

But as far as i know none are used for shows (ps the denmark ones include a captive born one)
 
San Diego also kept an orphaned grey whale for about one year till it became to big end of the 90's.
 
Thats amazing about the gray whale. I found the story on youtube after you posted YouTube - The JJ Story

There is a video on youtube of a porpoise show! nothing as spectacular as the dolphin shows we see but they perfom some tricks.
 
i thought that the recommendation was not to keep narwals in captivity because the horn of the males is causing problems with the edges of the aquarium.
 
dont think there are anymore in captivity but can never rule something out. If there is a hunting quota there is always a chance they can reappear in captivity at a later date. Would love to see them. The problem with the horn was it used to scratch the surface of viewing windows and that lead to problems with the horn as well but the same can be said aout most animals. In the case of the viewing windows they arent too cheap and replacing them constantly was probably an expensive business.Id love to see more catacean species in captivity as there is a lot more knowledge know then there was when they first were captured. Even botus could prob be kept and maybe even bred indefinetly now
 
Pygmy sperm whales and narwals! really! Wow! do you know where? I find it interesting to see different types of bottlenosed dolphins in captivity! they are quite different depending on where they have been caught. Cancun in mexico has hundreds of Dolphinariums. Dolphins in just about every situation you can imagine. open sea pools, waterparks, shopping malls and even hotels! They are mostly caribean dolphins but some have animals caught off Australia which are suprisingly different!
 
There have been some husbandry experiences with different cetacea species in the past.

-Pygmy Sperm Whales: David Taylor describes a miscarried attempt of acquisition in the 1960s-70s. I have seen one in a Florida dolphin rescue center in the late 1990s, but that was one of the beached specimens that usually don't survive long

-Botos have been kept and even bred in aquariums (s. thread about Venezuela Aquarium), but so far, the species failed to establish itself in zoos. Currently, only one Western zoo (Duisburg) keeps a single male ("Baby").

-The narwhale husbandry experiments seem to have been undertaken in the UK in the 1960s; data about this scarce.

-There exists an old, but no longer completely up-to-date list
Database about captive Dolphins and Whales

-Among others, species like Finless porpoise, Irrawaddy and Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin are kept in some Asian institutions (China, Japan, Thailand).
Meet the playful indo-pacific dolphins and the shy irriwady dolphins, that live like brothers and sisters in the sea world park.
 
Thats excellent exactly what I was looking for! your right though there are loads of things missing such as the orcas! but some of the species I was not expecting! Its interesting the amount of hybrids! anyone any pics of a common dolphin x bottlenose? they apparently have one in the show in seaworld sandiego!
 
There have been 3 births at Valencia, all three from the same parents and all three males. The middle one has allready died, the other two are healthy and play their part in the show. Apart from the parents, they also keep another older female, and afaik that's it. A total of 5 animals i believe...
 
I still think there is the possibility of more amazon dolphins coming into captivity. I know that the grounds for importing dolphins and other cataceans in the past was for captive scientific study and they didnt do any studies but instead had shows and swim with dolphin programmes. This was the case of imported black sea bottlenose dolphins. This really made the antis case against the keeping of dolphins and whales but isnt there a guideline to species allowed in captivity. Think this came from the dolphin trainer website but cant remember and it says the species in or a future possibility of coming into captivity


Table III--Average Adult Lengths of Marine Mammals Maintained in
Captivity \1\
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Average adult
length
Species Common name -------------------
In
meters In feet
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Group I Cetaceans:
Balaenoptera acutorostrata.. Minke whale....... 8.50 27.9
Cephalorhynchus commersonii. Commerson's 1.52 5.0
dolphin.
Delphinapterus leucas....... Beluga whale...... 4.27 14.0
Monodon monoceros........... Narwhale.......... 3.96 13.0
Globicephala melaena........ Long-finned pilot 5.79 19.0
whale.
Globicephala macrorhynchus.. Short-finned pilot 5.49 18.0
whale.
Grampus griseus............. Risso's dolphin... 3.66 12.0
Orcinus orca................ Killer whale...... 7.32 24.0
Pseudorca carassidens....... False killer whale 4.35 14.3
Tursiops truncatus Bottlenose dolphin 2.74 9.0
(Atlantic).
Tursiops truncatus (Pacific) Bottlenose dolphin 3.05 10.0
Inia geoffrensis............ Amazon porpoise... 2.44 8.0
Phocoena phocoena........... Harbor porpoise... 1.68 5.5
Pontoporia blainvillei...... Franciscana....... 1.52 5.0
Sotalia fluviatilis......... Tucuxi............ 1.68 5.5
Platanista, all species..... River dolphin..... 2.44 8.0
Group II Cetaceans:
Delphinus delphis........... Common dolphin.... 2.59 8.5
Feresa attenuata............ Pygmy killer whale 2.44 8.0
Kogia breviceps............. Pygmy sperm whale. 3.96 13.0
Kogia simus................. Dwarf sperm whale. 2.90 9.5
Lagenorhynchus acutus....... Atlantic white- 2.90 9.5
sided dolphin.

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Lagenorhynchus cruciger..... Hourglass dolphin. 1.70 5.6
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens.. Pacific white- 2.29 7.5
sided dolphin.
Lagenorhynchus albirostris.. White-beaked 2.74 9.0
dolphin.
Lagenorhynchus obscurus..... Duskey dolphin.... 2.13 7.0
Lissodelphis borealis....... Northern right 2.74 9.0
whale dolphin.
Neophocaena phocaenoides.... Finless porpoise.. 1.83 6.0
Peponocephala electra....... Melon-headed whale 2.74 9.0
Phocoenoides dalli.......... Dall's porpoise... 2.00 6.5
Stenella longirostris....... Spinner dolphin... 2.13 7.0
Stenella coeruleoalba....... Striped dolphin... 2.29 7.5
Stenella attenuata.......... Spotted dolphin... 2.29 7.5
Stenella plagiodon.......... Spotted dolphin... 2.29 7.5
Steno bredanensis........... Rough-toothed 2.44 8.0
dolphin.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ This table contains the species of marine mammals known by the
Department to be presently in captivity or that are likely to become
captive in the future. Anyone who is subject to the Animal Welfare Act
having species of marine mammals in captivity which are not included
in this table should consult the Deputy Administrator with regard to
the average adult length of such animals.
 
Try NMFS

@Vulpes: The National Marine Fisheries Service maintains a massive inventory list of all captive cetacea in the USA, and a few outside it (because of foreign parks having to get US permits). I used to order a copy every year back in the 80's.

Try this link: Welcome - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries

An E-mail to the folks involved should point you in the right direction.

Happy hunting.
 
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