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I believe it was Blackpool that was mooted for dolphins, as their Spanish owners seem to be building dolphin facilities at all their facilities.

But i personally cannot see dolphins being held in the UK ever again, the feeling in this country is too well rooted against dolphins being kept rightly or wrongly for our entertainment.
The British general public are and have been brainwashed into believing that these shows are cruel and unnecessary, but tell me if ant tourist goes to Florida on holiday and does not include sea world on their visit.

No investor will pour millions of pounds into the facilities needed for dolphins with this background of public feeling, as well as the problems in the financial world at the moment.

I just came back from florida, and i went to seaworld!
Do you think that, if west midlands got dolphins, they would mix with the sealions?
london (many years ago) had seal and porpoise
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Do you think that, if west midlands got dolphins, they would mix with the sealions?
Good god no!

WMSP's pool is just big enough for the current sealions and there is no room to extend it large enough to share with dolphins.
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I know a senior staff member at Whipsnade. They are not having dolphins, ever.
oh good, because with the state of the sealion pool i wouldnt like to see how they would house dolphins (sorry for going a bit offtrack)

as fom blackpool, i have never visited but it most probably has the potential to house them, as for brainwashed english people, can thier minds ever be changed?
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what iment was, would they live happily with them
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what iment was, would they live happily with them
Yes, many facilites do mix sealions and dolphins in the same pool with no trouble.

However if any dolphins do come to the UK it will surely be to completely new facilites, they will never be kept in any of the old dolphin pools which are still in existence or in slightly adapted sealion pools.
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yes, i dont want flamingo or dudley to keep them again
as i said before, i would like chester to keep them, although bongorob said that they are not on the sheets
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oh good, because with the state of the sealion pool i wouldnt like to see how they would house dolphins (sorry for going a bit off track).
I don't think there's a problem with Whipsnade's pool. It is way too small for dolphins and was probably out of date when it was built, but it's a decent size for 3 adult sealions and the one juvenile. It's very deep and the do have access to the 3 pools all at the same time.
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i have also herd that if anywhere is to aqquire dolphins it would be blackpool , i herd it as a possibilyty from staff there and staff who work for an animal training company which used to have dolphins but just has sea lions now .
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I don't think there's a problem with Whipsnade's pool. It is way too small for dolphins and was probably out of date when it was built, but it's a decent size for 3 adult sealions and the one juvenile. It's very deep and the do have access to the 3 pools all at the same time.
three? im pretty sure its two, one indoor, one outside?
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I don't think there's a problem with Whipsnade's pool. It is way too small for dolphins and was probably out of date when it was built, but it's a decent size for 3 adult sealions and the one juvenile. It's very deep and the do have access to the 3 pools all at the same time.
that does explane the lack of land in the main pool
how about we suggest some zoos that could build conitions for dolphins
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I don't think there's a problem with Whipsnade's pool. It is way too small for dolphins and was probably out of date when it was built, but it's a decent size for 3 adult sealions and the one juvenile. It's very deep and the do have access to the 3 pools all at the same time.
I saw this exhibit at Whipsnade when it first opened in the early 70s it was named "The water mammals house" which housed two pairs of bottle nosed dolphins, there were one main outside and one main inside pools (It may of had a very small inside holding pool) which in total held 130,000 gallons on water, the heating and filtering plant was visble in the under ground viewing section, It was quite modern in design for it's time in the UK but way to small even back then.

From what I can remember the dolphins came from the gulf of Mexico via the USA.
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Has anyone got pics of the old Dolphinariums in the UK? would be interesting to see them. there was a website dedicated to Windsor safari park (seems to have most of its data taken down) that had some nice pics of the dolphinarium and killer whale pool there!

Windsor Safari Park &bull; Index page
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Chester will NOT be getting any Whales or Dolphins.As for the collection that looked into keeping Dolphins with DEFRA it wasn`t Blackpool not sure which one it was though,alsothere was been rumours of someone opening a Marine Park in the South of England a few years back but that seams to have gone quite now.Personnaly i would love to see Whales and Dolphins back in the U.K but think its highly un-likely in the forseeable future.
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three? im pretty sure its two, one indoor, one outside?
Whipsnade's dolphin exhibit had three pools, which could be divided between each pool when necessary. It was quite an advanced design for its time in the UK. One option possible in the early days was that there was space to replace the heating plant with ciller plant as they were considering a major "polar" development at Whipsnade and the facility COULD have housed walrus! Probably still possible today, now there's a thought.
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Its a bit small for Walrus lol.
No, there are 3: outside, the main inside pool, and a small pool behind the white screen to the left of the main indoor pool.
 
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