#Dolphin Project

The Mirage hotel and casino in Las Vegas announced it would temporarily close its dolphin attraction in the wake of a third dolphin death this year. The Mirage's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat currently has no reopening date scheduled, a spokesperson told The Washington Post. An 11-year-old male bottlenose dolphin named K2 died Sept. 24 of what…

In September, an 11-year-old dolphin named K2 died at the Mirage casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. His death came as a surprise, since K2 had been a seemingly healthy, energetic young dolphin in the prime of his life, and it followed on the heels of two other dolphin deaths in the same calendar year. Nineteen-year-old Maverick died earlier in September…

K2 was fun to be around. The bottlenose dolphin was an energetic 11-year-old, a young adult in dolphin years, who was born at The Mirage casino on the Las Vegas strip and lived his entire life there. Visitors sometimes paid as much as $450 to have brief in-water interactions with him and other bottlenose dolphins.His handlers said he was often…

A bottlenose dolphin has died young from a lung infection at Las Vegas's Mirage Casino. The dolphin, named Maverick, was the second dolphin to die at the Mirage's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in the past five months, according to a statement by MGM Resorts. The first dolphin death of 2022 occurred in April, when a 13-year-old bottlenose named…