Dolphin World Blog

Hi All,

We get so many request for this subject on starting a Career as a Marine Mammal Trainer. Since Dolphin World is only the tour operator and we make vacationer’s dreams come true with the dolphins, we really don’t have the answer on the technical side of the dolphins and how to get into this industry.

This website, Dolphin Trainer, has some great links and resources. Here is an excerpt from the site….

This website is produced and written by working marine mammal professionals who care for and train dolphins, whales, seals, sea lions, walruses and other marine mammal species. Depending upon our specific job duties and our host facilities’ preferences, we may be called trainers, animal care specialists, keepers, naturalists, mammalogists or various other titles. When first starting out we may be sub-classified as assistant or apprentice. After years of hard work and progress we may earn new titles denoting higher levels of achievement and authority, e.g., senior, lead, supervisor, manager, curator or director. For the sake of simplicity we will generally just refer to all of these “hands on” marine mammal professionals as trainers.

Please read from from this website. Can anyone give me some feed back on the website?
Does anyone out there have some more insights for the Marine Mammal career and future? Any good resources to look at?

I know on my Myspace friends list, I have trainers as friends and hopefully one them will give us some more feed back for all us to learn more.

Have a great day!
God Bless,
John