Go back to sleep, dad, you need your naptime. ;-)

https://theonion.com/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land-1819568299/

That’s for Orcars.

I have strong feelings about the animals in the Sea World exhibits, particularly the Orcas and Dolphins. However, I contracted for Sea World Orlando for 5 years as an entertainer and often had to be "back-stage" or "back-area." I watched Blackfish and it did NOT represent the experience that I, or any other team member I worked/talked with had. It felt very sensationalist and not grounded in reality (or at least, the reality I witnessed for 5 years). If you watch it, I'd just approach it with some scrutiny, because it really didn't come off as a "documentary" to me.

The yellow line in the meme is selecting quite a bit of area that isn't SeaWorld parking, and it's quite old too. On right it's selecting some park area and the lot for a boat launch. On the left there is admin buildings and a Marina + parking for that. Check the satellite view.

I don't like sea world or zoos either. Also all the shitty safari places which breed wild animals so tourists will pay to see them.

But it's also a weird position for many zoos who have now become sanctuaries for animals. My zoo, over the past decade, (according to their website) doesn't buy animals.

During the pandemic, the cops raided some mansion of some drug lord and all the exotic animals were given to the Zoo, where they can live out their lives.

I think by law, all zoos should follow that philosophy and not be a tourist money making scheme, but a sanctuary for wild animals that were stolen by rich fucks.

To be fair a lot of zoos also act as rehabilitation centres or sanctuaries for animals. These zoos either rescue animals and while they are being rehabilitated are on display for education, or sanctuaries for animals that would otherwise die in the wild so they can live their life in comfort.

One thing America has in abundance is land.

The other thing is greed.

So if you're ever asking " is this option really cheaper?" The answer is that they went with the cheap option.

ROI on even a 2 story parking lot is a lot longer than the one and much more expensive than double the price.

Paving is cheap, easy and other than drainage design is pretty straightforward. Put in drainage, grade land, put down bedding material for the asphalt, put down asphalt and curbing, paint line install signs.

A multi-story garage needs a ton of engineering, concrete and rebar and is custom to each location. Because you have a lot of weight in these structures

If you look at amusement parks that have parking garages most of them are land locked or purchasing new land for parking is so expensive it's cheaper to build a garage

(Please note I'm am a layman about construction, there is probably a construction person or engineer that can explain it better just a theme park fan that likes reading about how the engineer rides and have occasional tumbled over into parking engineering which is a fascinating topic of how much engineering goes into it)

It is more expensive to build multilevel parking but its how the laws work. It might even be that the law required this much parking based on statistical models, which is insane if people are getting there some other way.

Imo we could reduce the size of parking lots by just requiring nearby businesses to allow unrestricted parking during their off hours.

It's not for poors

Are you kidding? The parking fee is an astronomical part of entry fees.

Is there a bus from parking to the entrance tho? Or you have to walk there like some ant? /s