I love Blue Horizons! The storyline is totally cheesy, but the animals in the show are what drive me in training my animals. Using so many different species in so many different ways is so inspiring to a trainer! The performance in that show is everything I hope to be able to do with my own animals. Not exactly, of course; my guinea pigs can't fly across a stadium of people. However, training each animal to respond to such subtle cues that make it look like they are responding and understanding human language (dolphins splashing the trainers back) and the precision of the performance (the birds not flying away (always, anyway) ) is everything I hope to achieve with my pets! Training animals to their full potential is such a beautiful thing!
Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus April 16, 2011 "Blue Horizons"-Whale and Dolphin Theater SeaWorld Orlando Orlando, Florida Edits: border, adjust curves, adjust saturation, adjust color balance Taken with Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT