We are able to provide enrichment as well as answer important questions about how dolphins think and perceive their world through thought-provoking research games. Ranier, a common bottlenose dolphin residing at The Seas, Epcot, Walt Disney World Resort, has been participating in research projects for many years. Through one of these projects, Ranier engaged in a match-to-sample task where he learned to examine an object and select the matching object correctly from three alternative choices.

Onmega Dolphin Park is located in Marmaris, Turkey. For the last six years, every member of the training team pursued the same goal: trying to increase the welfare of our animals using positive conditioning techniques to retrain, recover and keep husbandry behaviors consistently.