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For any copyright, please send me a message. Animal rights campaigners are ramping up the pressure on travel giant Expedia to stop selling tickets to captive dolphin shows. World Animal Protection (WAP) activists descended on the company’s headquarters on Thursday in Angel, London, carrying a life-sized dolphin on a stretcher. Activists waved placards demanding the world’s biggest earning travel company to ‘stop profiting from dolphin cruelty’ and cut all ties with aquariums that keep the mammals for human entertainment. The group claims Expedia is a ‘significant driver’ of the damaging industry, adding that it sells tickets for 48 different attractions which hold about 600 captive dolphins. In total, the group said 3,000 dolphins are currently in captivity across the world cramped in ‘tiny, barren, concrete tanks’, are starved ahead of performances, and even given Valium to calm their high stress levels. WAP’s Katheryn Wise told Metro.co.uk behind the ‘glossy facade’ of the shows, the dolphins endure such intense ‘psychological pressure’ that they begin to ‘self-mutilate’ in a desperate bid to get out of the tanks. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Many are torn apart from their pods in the wild by boats driving them into a small bay area, before hunters jump in the water and cherry-pick the ones that look the best, while calves are ripped apart from their mothers too young. ‘They start to show signs of aggression to one another. It’s incredibly stressful for them,’ the wildlife campaigns manager told this news site. ‘They are very social animals which live in large groups so to randomly pull one out will have a great affect on the whole pod. ‘They will chew on the bars of their tank and suffer dental issues as a result. Raking is another common sign of stress when they scrape their teeth on other dolphins. ‘They constantly have to figure out a new social hierarchy with strange dolphins they don’t know.’ WAP claim they have sent around 40,000 emails to Expedia and have even met bosses in person but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears, and have resorted to taking to the streets. Expedia said it is working with animal rights protection groups to review its policy and has removed some ‘wildlife interactions’ from their websites last year. But WAP wants them to go further to join TripAdvisor, Virgin Holidays, British Airways Holidays and Booking.com, which have all cut ties with zoos and dolphinariums. The animal rights group said dolphins usually roam an area of about 100 to 400 sq km – the equivalent of 70 Hyde Parks – but their findings showed the average tank is the size of an Imax cinema screen. Global Hea
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