O’Barry now works to rehabilitate captive dolphins so they can survive in the wild.
The dolphin mania that resulted from Flipper has seen prices for dolphins reach six figures.
O’Barry was a trainer of Flipper for the original television series.
Richard O’Barry, advocate for freeing captive dolphins, began his career training dolphins in the 1960s.
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