Sam Colbert
speaker
85 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Sam Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These are the girls.
That's what their carers call them, the girls.
Their names are Little White and Little Gray.
They are beluga whales.
Belugas are pale gray and chubby, with little black eyes, bulging foreheads, and big smiling mouths.
They might look babyish, but they're incredibly intelligent.
These two were caught in Russia when they were still small, then sent to a theme park in Shanghai.
There, they grew up performing tricks for paying audiences.
Now, they're the subjects of a bold experiment.
They live here, in Iceland, at the world's first sanctuary for captive whales.
And what happens to them could determine the futures of thousands of other whales and dolphins still living at theme parks and aquariums.
Whale and dolphin shows became popular in the 1960s, thanks to SeaWorld's Shamu the Orca and TV's Flipper the Dolphin.
They enjoyed success well into the 2000s.
But then, public opinion started to shift.
And the darker sides of whale and dolphin captivity were dramatized in documentaries like The Cove and Blackfish.
Protests from animal rights groups grew.
Social media exploded with calls for SeaWorld boycotts.
By the end of this saga, Western audiences had soured on whale and dolphin shows.
In the last few years, several governments in Canada, Mexico, Belgium and Switzerland have passed laws to phase out keeping them all together.
Today, over 3,700 dolphins, porpoises and whales live in captivity around the world.
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