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New staff and new programs for dolphins at Resorts World Sentosa’s Marine Life Park

New staff and new programs for dolphins at Resorts World Sentosa’s Marine Life Park
September 29, 2013

The Marine Life Park at Singapore's Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) has employed 36 trainers for its 24 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins ahead of the imminent opening of its Dolphin Island attraction.

The marine attraction will be launching its dolphin interaction programs on 30th September

Park management believe that the level of animal care at the Marine Life Park exceedsof other dolphin attractions around the world with each of the having a primary trainer of its own, with the others assisting.

DWS Director of Marine Mammal Operations Adrian Penny emphasised that the park is giving the best healthcare to the dolphins since they arrived here last November, stating "we have four veterinarian on the staff, as well as a whole lab staff available to us.

"We do body inspections (for the dolphins) everyday."

Penny also referred to educational aspect of the attraction, stating that visitors will be educated about dolphins and the environment they live in through the interactive experience.

The park is presently scheduling only four interactive sessions per day, each consisting of four groups with a maximum of five guests - a maxiumum of 80 guests per day at most.

The bottlenose dolphins from the Solomon Islands have been a source of controversy as animal rights called for their release back to their natural habitat. Three dolphins died before their arrival in Singapore.

The park said that the facility housing the dolphins is better than those of international standards in terms of the space per dolphin.

The park's South East Asia Aquarium is home to more than 80,000 animals housed in 42.8 million litre of water. It already holds two records, one for being the largest aquarium in the world and the other for housing the largest single acrylic panel the viewing window on its Open Ocean Habitat tank measuring 36 meters by 8.3 metres. 

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