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1. What city and country does this movie take place primarily in?

2. What does OPS stand for?

3. What tv show did Rick OBarry work for?

4. Why did Rick decide dolphins shouldnt be kept in captivity when the
Flipper show ended?

5. Why do dolphins need Maalox and antacids when in captivity?

6. How far do dolphins in the wild travel daily? How far do you think they can
travel at Sea World every day?

7. How do dolphins communicate in the wild? Why might this be a problem

for dolphins at Sea World?

8. What are some reasons dolphins die in captivity?

9. How are the dolphins in Taiji captured?

10. How did Cathy die?

11. The Taiji fishermen make the most money from show dolphins they sell.
How much do they make per dolphin?

12. What do they do with the dolphins they dont sell to places like Sea
World?

13. Explain the politics behind the IWC and why it cant do anything to stop
the dolphin slaughter.

14. What did Hayden Panitier and her friends do?

15. Describe the cove.

16. What is the goal of the Oceans Eleven type team that is being
assembled to go to Taiji?

17. According to the filmmakers, is it tradition in Japan to hunt and kill

dolphins and eat their meat?

18. Whats the very real health danger caused by eating dolphin meat?
Describe the symptoms.

19. If Sea World and swim with the dolphins places werent buying the Taiji
dolphins, the slaughter would not be cost effective and would not happen.
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Who eats the dolphin meat that is left over from the dolphins that arent
bought for marine parks?

20. Rick OBarry and the other people in this film are old. Who is going to do
what they are doing when they are gone?

21. How intelligent are dolphins? List several examples of ways we know this.

22. What does it mean to be self-aware? How does this relate to what
happens to the dolphins when they are in the cove?

23. The international captivity trade is so lucrative. Explain the connection

that this statement has with Taiji and places like Sea World.

24. How does the Japanese government justify the dolphin slaughter? Is this
claim supported by scientific evidence?

25. Why do all these obscure small countries that are part of the IWC support
Japans annual dolphin and whaling hunts?

26. Describe your reaction to the video/audio footage of the dolphin

slaughter the team captured.

27. Think about the life of a dolphin in the wild and the life of a dolphin at
Sea World or an aquarium or a marine park. Do you think its acceptable for
people to keep dolphins in captivity? Why or why not?

28. Is there an issue in your life that you feel as passionately about as Rick
OBarry does about dolphins in captivity? If so, what is it, and what would
you be willing to do to cause change in the world about that issue?