This is the most Ned Flanders "I have my life together" LPT ever.

I bet you also floss regularly and use your shampoo and conditioner at the same rate and buy new sets at the same time.

You're poorly educated on this topic and trying to argue for enslaving sapient creatures for human entertainment. It's not a good look.

>training marine mammals with positive reinforcement for shows is enriching and beneficial for the animal

This isn't a hot take, it's a bad and dumb take.

The study says that they get excited for rewards in an environment that they've become comfortable in, that does NOT equate to longer and healthier lives, and will only apply in captive situations where the animals are well maintained and cared for - this is NOT the average in the many thousands of marine mammal shows across the world. And this study is specifically looking at if performing in shows is stressful, not their overall quality of life.

Yes, someone can be happy and comfortable in captivity if someone is given enough stimulation and activities and rewards. Doesn't make it "Not prison" only that the conditions can be made to be acceptable during certain activities.

>"The average survival time in captivity for all bottlenose dolphin individuals who lived more than one year is 12 years, 9 months and 8 days – much lower than the wild where they live to between 30 and 50 years."

People who want to see these creatures captive simply do not understand or have never been educated or they were never inspired to learn about other living things.

The reason many countries are adopting these policies that give marine mammals rights is because of the spread of information, major documentaries and the internet in general reaching people and showing people that many of these mammals have actual sapience and that watching captive creatures is similar to watching people in prison.

So the internet has done some good at least. For everything else it just has curdled society into distinct pockets of shitmouthed freaks.

There are a lot of countries that are adopting this as policy, I actually am impressed and didn't really expect so many countries to actually recognize these creatures as deserving of rights as soon as they have, I thought it would be another a century honestly.

There's still a long way to go (stinkeye aimed at Japan) and an absolute ecological disaster coming that may make all these efforts irrelevant in the end, but for now at least it's good to see every time another country passes these measures.