Animal activity bookFor kids who love animals and want to protect them

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Did you know?No dolphin willingly performs tricks or swims with people. They suffer physically and emotionally apart from their families when captured and placed in small tanks.

4Dolphins are intelligent enough to recognize themselves in a mirror

3Mother dolphins will protect their babies with their bodies

1Dolphins have many, different ways to find food in the wild

2Dolphins have different whistles and clicks to call each other by name

5Dolphins live in family groups called pods and spend a lot of time playing

If you love animals, the easiest way to help them is by not going to tourist attractions that harm them. These activities will help you learn what to look out for on your next family trip.

Find out more at: worldanimalprotection.org.au

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Colour for wildlifeWild animals belong in the wild. You can help animals by not visiting tourist attractions that capture them and force them to entertain us. Visit worldanimalprotection.org.au to find out more.

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Word searchFind the words that impact an elephant’s welfare. Do you know what causes an elephant to suffer and what we can do to make sure they have a better life?

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Dolphin MazeHelp the dolphin swim to his pod (that’s what a dolphin’s family is called). Watch out there are many dangers on the way!

Dolphins are fast swimmers, deep divers and can travel far distances in just one day. They get bored and frustrated when kept in small tanks to entertain tourists as they cannot dive or swim very far. Instead they are trained to perform tricks and do other things that they wouldn’t naturally do in the wild.

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Tourists may have the chance to swim with dolphins and get kissed or pulled around the pool by a dolphin. Dolphins suffer when kept in small tanks to entertain tourists all day. The constant touching by people is unnatural and can be quite stressful for them. They don’t usually get breaks or have the choice not to participate in these activities. They are constantly fed to encourage them to act this way which is unhealthy and can cause them to beg and become aggressive.

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Dolphins are still being captured from the wild to be kept in dolphinariums (aquariums for dolphins). The dolphin catchers use high-speed boats to chase them and nets to capture them. They may become separated from their families and injured during their capture.

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Dolphins do not survive long out of water. Being held and passed around by tourists is also frightening and stressful for dolphins. Dolphins have delicate skin that can be easily scratched by our fingernails, rings or watches. How would you feel if people were passing you around to take a picture with you?

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What’s wrong with this picture?Explain all the threats to an elephant’s welfare.

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Elephants like to spend time with other elephants. They live together with their family. A group of elephants that live together is called a herd. Mother elephants especially want to be close to their babies which are called calves. Baby elephants are separated from their mothers in order to train them to give rides and do tricks. This makes the mother and baby elephant very sad.

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Learn more about the threats to an elephant’s welfare

Elephants are trained with hooks to control them so that people can ride them and force them to perform tricks. The training is called “the crush.” This causes the elephants to feel pain and get hurt. It also makes them scared of their owners and trainers so they obey their commands.

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2 In the wild, elephants eat many different things including grasses, tree bark, leaves and small stems. In captivity, they are often fed the same type of food every day which can be boring and is not healthy for the elephants. Without a proper diet, the elephants can get sick.

In captivity, most elephants are chained or tied up at night and during the day when they aren’t giving tourists’ rides. This prevents them from being able to move around, get exercise and choose who they want to be close to and what they want to do. How do you think this would make them feel?

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Saddles are put on the backs of elephants to give tourists a more comfortable ride. All elephants that give people rides were painfully trained first. Elephants can get injuries on their backs from the saddle and from their poor living conditions.

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In the wild, elephants will travel up to 10 km each day in the forest. That is like walking the length of your local community pool 1000 times! All this exercise makes them healthy and strong. In zoos and elephant riding camps, they are kept in small fenced-in areas,1000 times smaller than their habitat in the wild. This gives them very little room to move, get exercise and do all the things that elephants like to do.

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Elephants are trained to do tricks to make people laugh. The training hurts them and makes them scared of their owners so they will obey them. They are trained to paint pictures, ride a bike and walk on a tightrope. None of these activities are natural for them to do. You would never see an elephant riding a bike in the forest! When wild animals can’t act naturally, they get frustrated and sometimes get very sick.

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Word searchFind the words that describe dolphins and impact their welfare. Do you know what causes a dolphin to suffer and what we can do to make sure they have a better life?

Dolphins Social Pod Free Intelligent Capture Pollution

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Colour for wildlifeWild animals belong in the wild. You can help animals by not visiting tourist attractions that capture them and force them to entertain us. Visit worldanimalprotection.org.au to find out more.

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Did you know?No elephant willingly performs tricks or gives rides to tourists. They must be trained to do these unnatural things and the training hurts them.

1Elephants have strong problem-solving abilities

2Rather than just something the young do, elephants play all their lives

4Elephants will protect other elephants in need and help them when they are in trouble

6Elephants are caring and help other elephants who are hurt. They are sad when they lose a member of their family

3Elephants are intelligent and travel far distances. They suffer greatly when kept by people

5Elephants

are intelligent enough to recognize

themselves in a mirror

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