Captive marine mammals lead short, miserable lives

By JOHN M. CRISP
Scripps Howard News Service

Here in South Texas, marine-mammal mortality was in the news during the past few weeks. On Sept. 21, Cobie, a 15-year-old bottlenose dolphin housed at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, succumbed to a lung condition that had plagued him all summer. The director of the aquarium says that Cobie was a “wonderful ambassador for his aquatic brethren.”

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