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 | | But even taking into account all of these anonymous "ambassadors" of the animal kingdom, our ad hoc statistics still do not include dolphins fatally maimed during capture and transport, dolphins simply forgotten by their owners, and dolphin babies conceived in the wild but delivered in captivity, stillborn, rejected or even deliberately drowned by their mothers. |
 | | From there, four animals went to clients in Spain, and the remaining pair were taken to Brighton, one surviving another three or four months and the other dying a year later. |
 | | As early as 1860, attempts by the ZLS were made to keep harbour porpoises at Regent's Park, but from the fourteen that arrived, three died during capture, and the remainder soon perished in captivity, setting an unheeded and ominous precedent for the future. |
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