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A Miami Seaquarium coach was attacked by a dolphin all through a reside Flipper Dolphin Exhibit Saturday.
“[It] looked like the dolphin rammed into the coach,” Shannon Carpenter, a photographer who was in the audience to see the display, explained to WSVN. “There was a battle, some type of collision underwater took place. The girl on the paddleboard, she paddled out of the drinking water pretty brief, and then the guide coach started swimming again to the dock, and it looked like she received ran into a couple more situations.”
Adhering to the attack, the coach escaped the h2o and remained on her knees poolside until eventually the conclude of the display.
A dolphin attacks a trainer in the course of the Flipper Dolphin Show at the Miami Seaquarium.
(Shannon Carpenter)
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The Seaquarium explained in a statement Tuesday that the coach unintentionally scratched Sundance the dolphin with her hand which led to the aggressive response seen on video clip.
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Persons for the Moral Treatment of Animals (PETA) took to its TikTok account to analyze the assault, alleging it stemmed from dolphins getting compelled to perform at the Seaquarium.
Miami Seaquarium suggests this is the very first time a dolphin has damaged regimen and attacked. The trainer was reportedly despatched to the healthcare facility.
“This was unquestionably painful to Sundance, who reacted by breaking away from the regimen and swimming towards and striking the trainer,” the Seaquarium reported. “The two Sundance and the trainer are recovering nicely.”
