Can you keep a bottle-nosed dolphin in your swimming pool?

Keeping wild dolphins in captivity is highly discouraged and strictly regulated. Bottlenose dolphins are incredibly intelligent and social creatures that require vast expanses of ocean and deep social interactions with their pod members to thrive and maintain their well-being.

Swimming pools are not suitable environments for dolphins due to their limited size and lack of the complex sensory stimulations and social contexts that dolphins experience in their natural habitats.