10 episodes

I’m Amy, a marine biologist and comedian who’s obsessed with dolphins - and I want you to be too. This podcast series tells the absolutely bonkers story of the first captive dolphin, explains how the industry operates today and examines whether or not it’s okay to keep dolphins in captivity at all (spoiler alert - it’s not). You’ll laugh, you might even cry, but no matter what happens you’ll learn a lot about dolphins.

A Dolphin Pod A Dolphin Pod

    • Society & Culture

I’m Amy, a marine biologist and comedian who’s obsessed with dolphins - and I want you to be too. This podcast series tells the absolutely bonkers story of the first captive dolphin, explains how the industry operates today and examines whether or not it’s okay to keep dolphins in captivity at all (spoiler alert - it’s not). You’ll laugh, you might even cry, but no matter what happens you’ll learn a lot about dolphins.

    Episode 10 - The Winter’s Tail

    Episode 10 - The Winter’s Tail

    The final instalment of the show thrusts the dark matter of dolphin rescue and rehabilitation into the light. We meet Winter, the star of the 2011 movie Dolphin Tale. She was a wild dolphin who lost her tail in infancy and spent the rest of her life at a rescue centre. It may sound like a happy ending, but think again. The animals that enter the rehabilitation system usually don’t make it out alive. What they do make, however, is money.

    • 1 hr 35 min
    Episode 9 - Cove, Death and Robots

    Episode 9 - Cove, Death and Robots

    A close examination of the concerted effort to hunt wild dolphins around the world, the history of whaling and the adorable but expensive plan to replace captive dolphins with robots. Beep boop.

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Episode 8 - It’s the End of SeaWorld as we Know it

    Episode 8 - It’s the End of SeaWorld as we Know it

    The shocking and seedy truth behind the most famous orca facility on Earth, plus how one little documentary brought the world leader in whale captivity to its knees.

    • 1 hr 23 min
    Episode 7 - LAW & ORCA

    Episode 7 - LAW & ORCA

    In the captive whale system, the animals are oppressed by two separate yet equally unjust groups: the hunters that remove whales from the wild and the aquarium owners who profit off them. These are their stories.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Episode 6 - Whatever Happened to Baby Keiko?

    Episode 6 - Whatever Happened to Baby Keiko?

    The unbelievable story of the real life Free Willy from his disturbing removal from the wild to his hotly-contested return to the sea.

    • 50 min
    Episode 5 - Natural Born Killer Whales

    Episode 5 - Natural Born Killer Whales

    We get inside the mind of the world’s most successful predator and investigate how the largest living dolphin fares confined in captivity versus living free in the open ocean.

    • 47 min

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