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Each year, more than 2,000,000 people visit the
Seven Seas exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
The exhibit opened 50 years ago.
RITA STACEY: "This was a very groundbreaking
facility."
Rita Stacey heads the Seven Seas exhibit at the
Brookfield Zoo.
RITA STACEY: "It was actually the first inland
dolphinarium. At the time, it was the first one that
was located inland and it was the first one to use
artificial saltwater, that we now create our own
man-made saltwater here."
That development led to the creation of a permanent
home for marine mammals far from the ocean. The
Seven Seas exhibit is the oldest inland dolphin
habitat in the United States.
RITA STACEY: "This is actually our second building.
Our first building was being operated for close to
25 years. And in that 25 years, we had estimated
about eleven and a half million people had gone into
that facility and saw the dolphins there."
The Chicago Zoological Society operates the
Brookfield Zoo. Stacey says the society has led
efforts to increase understanding of sea creatures.
RITA STACEY: "There is so much that we've learned in
the last 50 years about caring for dolphins, about
the inner workings of their society and their
relationships with each other, as well as about
anatomy and about how dolphins actually work."
MELISSA ZABOJNIK: "You know, we can use the dolphins
as ambassadors."
Melissa Zabojnik is a keeper at the Seven Seas
exhibit.
MELISSA ZABOJNIK: "This is Mia. She's our youngest,
she's four."
She has been working with dolphins for 10 years.
MELISSA ZABOJNIK: "The zoo's mission is to inspire
conservation leadership, so that's something that we
try to portray in our dolphin shows as well."
The Chicago Zoological Society provides support to
the Sarasota Dolphin Research Center in Florida. The
center studied dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico after
the huge oil spill in 2010.
MELISSA ZABOJNIK: "Because we've gotten to know
these animals so well in the past, it helps us in
the future by determining if the oil spill has any
effect on the future of them -- where the animals
spend their time, if they migrate for any reason, if
there's any difference of their health population in
the future, year after year, because of the oil
spill."
The Brookfield Zoo now works with other American
organizations that are also far from ocean
coastlines. They are working to increase
understanding of the world under the sea. I'm Jim
Tedder.
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