JEDDAH - Dolphin Mosa has died at the Fakieh Aquarium in Jeddah. This is reported by the Animal Rights Foundation. According to the Fakieh Aquarium in Jeddah, "the transition from adolescence to sexual maturity" was the reason the animal no longer wanted to live.  

Mosa is one of five dolphins that were transferred from the Curaçao Sea Aquarium to Saudi Arabia in June. Animal Rights campaign coordinator Anna Krijger says she is shocked, but not surprised: “Keeping such large and intelligent animals in small basins is a horrific form of abuse. It is more common for dolphins to self-mutilate or take their own life under these conditions."  

Mosa is seven years old. Bottlenose dolphins can live up to 20 years in the wild. According to Animals Rights, the animals had a relatively natural life in the Seaquarium, but the conditions in the Fakieh Aquarium are said to be downright bad.  

The basins are much too small, according to the animal welfare organization, and the 'predecessors' of the Curaçao dolphins all died prematurely and under questionable circumstances, probably because desert sand got into the lungs.