This is one of the times they were furiously chasing each other around the tank and barrel rolling around each other.

I have heard people say that her tank is big enough and give small reasons why it is adequet, but i disagree with this. To me, this is equal to giving a thoroughbred horse that needs room to run only an acre of land to live in. they can live, but by no means will they get to run and play in such a small space like most horses would get to do.

The reason I say this is from watching these two. As long as I have been going, I have NEVER seen her that active. It was great to see her twirl, zoom, and sin all through that tank while playing with the dolphin..but while the dolphin had room to speed around and do some acrobatics, when she would try to do the same, she would whack her tail on the cement. Once she had dove down and in an effort to get speed back up to catch up to Merlin who was on the other side of the tank, she smacked her tail on the bottom of the tank with such force I could hear it outside of they tank as a loud clap. She certainly has a lot of force.

It is really interesting to see her zooming around this tank, compared to the tank at Sea World and how the Orca there interacted in it.

Any way, just some personal thought.

Shouka and Merlin at SFDK 27.08.08