Text - Swimming with dolphins

Every year, around 50,000 people-----

Living a confined, socially isolated life can cause.....

In a survey, about half the people who work with dolphins reported that the animals......

Over the past few years, several swimmers on the Irish coast.....

How could baby dolphins be affected by their mothers' close contact with people?

What two purposes is ramming used for by dolphins?

Swimming with dolphins can be done....

• only with dolphins in captivity

• primarily in North America and Australia

• virtually around the globe

• only in pods

Swimming with people-----

• isn't particularly harmful for dolphins

• kills 6% of captive dolphins every year

• can make captive dolphins' health problems worse

• kills 2% more wild dolphins than captive dolphins