Batumi Dolphin Show

Dolphin show at Batumi Dolphinarium, Georgia, filmed on September 1st, 2016. As a show, it was definitely better than the one at Kolmården Zoo - but of course, a Scandinavian zoo has to put much greater emphasis on "natural" and conservation and education, than a dolphinarium in a west Asian tourist location. And I enjoy both educational and "entertainment" shows, the thing with this one was the many behaviors I had never seen before (like the dance at 24:00), the length of it, the number of trainers and dolphins, the beautiful stage, and the clear love between trainers and dolphins. All the dolphins are presented by name in the beginning. They had three babies born a few months earlier, and two of them are with their mothers in the pool here, the third mother-calf pair is in one of the back pools (they have well over a dozen dolphins). The dolphinarium was first founded in the Soviet 1970s, then was closed, and eventually reopened with new facilities and new dolphins in 2011. All the adults were captured either in the Black Sea (the sea they're about 100 meters from), or Japan. See more at Cetacean Cousins or Ceta-Base.