Honey, dubbed by activists and animal lovers ‘the world’s loneliest dolphin’, died last month, after almost two years spent by herself in a small pool at an abandoned aquarium in Japan.
We originally featured Honey’s tragic story back in October 2018, when footage shot by Japanese animal rights activists showing a single bottlenose dolphin floating in what appeared like an abandoned pool went viral online. It turned out that the video had been shot with a drone at the Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, months after it had closed down. The dolphin, named Honey, and some penguins had remained behind and were being fed by an employee every few days. Still, the dolphin suffered from skin burns under the hot summer sun, as well as stress and loneliness. The story made international headlines at the time, but that did nothing to change Honey’s fate. After almost two years spent in that pool alone, she died last month…
“In the wild, dolphins swim vast distances with their families, playing and exploring new territory together. But for Honey, life is spent floating listlessly all day long,” PETA wrote in 2018. “She is kept all alone and is said to be engaging in repetitive, compulsive actions known as stereotypic behavior – a sign of the severe distress caused by captivity.”
In November of 2018, Dolphin Project learned that the closed Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium was in debt and in desperate need of a buyer. In 2019, they learned that the aquarium had been sold along with Honey and the other animals, which was confirmed by the Kaisou Health Center, which managed the health of the animals at the marine park.
According to a recent Dolphin Project post, the organization had desperately tried to acquire Honey so that she could retire in peace and dignity. In February of 202, they once again contacted animal rights colleagues in Japan to broker a deal, but conversations ended in March, when it became apparent that the lonely dolphin was having serious heath problems and would likely not survive. She died in her pool on March 29…
“Honey’s plight attracted worldwide attention, and sparked a huge movement from within Japan. While tragically, she wasn’t able to escape the man-made enclosure she suffered in, Honey will remain the face of dolphin captivity for many years to come,” Dolphin Project wrote.
On the other hand, if Honey’s death wasn’t tragic enough, even more so is the fact that even after getting international attention, she could not escape her tiny watery prison and spent the last year and a half of her life miserable. What about all the other captive marine animals whose horror stories never make the news?
Matthew Cooper
Ok....and?
Anthony Gonzalez
:(
Caleb Price
Animal Activists fuck animals.
Noah Hall
Who cares?
Henry Nguyen
Fawk a yeeeewww whaaaaaale Anda fawk a yeeeeew dolphiiiiin
>this poor animal is all alone!! Okay then mercy kill it when the zoo closes >NOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN DOPLIHNINOS
Blake King
Dolphins are closer to humans than americans are.
James Smith
This.
Owen Williams
Shitskins
Xavier Bell
>the nonwhites reveal themselves
Ayden Thomas
>blessed trips Enjoy the fish in dolphin heaven F
Jayden Hughes
Fuck Asian subhumans
Asher Thompson
reminds me of my childhood fuck this gay earth sage this trash thread
Benjamin Butler
Meanwhile, the self isolating measures are extended yet again.
Isaac Powell
awww, honey was my dog's name... ;_;
Matthew Green
What a waste, could have eaten it.
Jose Ramirez
nigger
Asher Wright
>N-NOOOOOO NOT THE DOLPHINIROOOOO >NOT THE FLIPPY FLOPPER BOI kys
Elijah Evans
THIS ISN'T SAD ENOUGH I WAN'T MY SUBLIMINAL EMOTIONAL PROGRAMMING TO BE SADDER
Sebastian Walker
Do people unironically care about dolphins more than humans? True it was a shitty way to go but who knows whether it would have been eaten by a whale in nature or some even worse shit
Brandon James
I don't get it. If the aquarium was abandoned and the former owners left the animals to die, why couldn't they just take the dolphin and put in in an aquarium somewhere else or let it out into the ocean?
Jason Garcia
How long do you think it'll be till we all die of loneliness?
Look at all these filthy shitskins who have no souls
Ayden Bailey
Dolphins are literally the niggers of the sea. They kill and rape shit just for fun, and they travel in gangs. Really fuck dolphins, now sharks are cool and bro tier.
T. Floridaman
Alexander Cooper
People who lack empathy for animals are subhumans. Imagine if you were abducted by aliens, or more realistically, taken hostage and sent to a prison where everyone speaks a language you don’t know. You’d be in an environment where you understand very little, and you’d be scared. Subsequently, empathy is the glue that holds society together predicated by the golden rule “do unto others as you would have others do unto you”.
Jeremiah Bennett
>Eaten by a whale What
Hunter Evans
Holy shit imagine being so fucking right but naive at the same time
Jaxon James
Isolation is torture, which is why it's the preferred tactic of (((Pharma))) at present.
Poor soul. I will add a candle for her on 4/20 user.
F, Honey
And fuck psycho nips.
Ayden Wright
Blame the government or else these people could have just let it go in the wild.
Jaxon Rivera
Trips checked. Sad dolphin story.
Dominic Sanchez
>lives in isolation >engages in repetitive tasks >someone checks on and feeds him every couple days
This dolphin is literally Yas Forums
Xavier Mitchell
you're just mad because even a dolphin wouldn't fuck you
Chase Anderson
Honestly more humane than letting an intelligent animal swim around in a cube with nothing to do for years.
Ethan Walker
did you watch tiger king, do you give two fucks about joe killing his tigers
[spoiler] you fucking shouldnt because their bred in captivity and are just a money pit [/spoiler]
Anthony Torres
T. Horse Fuckers.
Tyler Collins
>t. non-human
Julian Carter
Underrated fuck...
Blake Young
Why is everyone talking about this 'tiger king' shit?
Leo Flores
I am not particularly concerned with the "rights" of animals, but let this be a lesson to all of you about institutions and their inflexibility and torpor.
There was absolutely no benefit to the receivors who took over this insolvent company to keeping that dolphin. And there were people literally BADGERING them to take a zero-value non-asset off their hands so it wouldn't be their problem any more. And they still didn't do it! Nobody took the ten minutes it would have taken to pick up the phone and say "Let's make these annoying people go away by letting them take this stupid dolphin off our hands." Either they were paralyzed by indecision, or laziness, or the assets were somehow tied up in a sluggish court system, or some fucking honorary kike somewhere thought he might scrounge three cents out of this somehow and got in the way. And the WHOLE WORLD is like this - every institution, everywhere, completely paralyzed by the fact that the majority of the people available to staff institutions are fucking deadbeat moron retards.
Caleb Sanders
>do unto others as you would have others do unto you great way to spend your life in servitude to people who don't give a fuck how they treat others
Grayson Torres
F
And remember, anyone who isn't empathetic to animals is either not white, a psychopath or both.
Nathan Ramirez
this - i would trade the lives of 100000 Yas Forums edgefags for the comfort of this deceased dolphin -F
Andrew Collins
You fuck dogs. Sit down.
Adrian Bell
i have a horse dildo if that's any consolation
Dylan Nelson
I'm not gonna read all that. What the fuck did she eat for 2 years
Liam Thompson
Exactly my point Animal activist value virtue signaling more than the animal's lives themselves
Carter Bennett
because netflix is the only thing people have in common anymore
