ANBLIK Weblog

Seth Lesser lifelong fascination with dolphins began when he first watched a dolphin show in Hawaii. This was reinforced when he visited Miami Seaquarium a few years later. However, even as a kid, Lesser had already shown signs of deep interest in animals and their behavior.

Lesser was fortunate to have grown up to a family that nurtured his love for animals. Born in Fresno, California, he had several pets as a kid, including 3 pairs of hamsters, a beagle, a parrot, and two cats, one being the Siamese cat he called “General”- his favorite. For Seth Lesser, however, keeping animals goes beyond giving them food or shelter, it is also a good opportunity to observe their behaviors.

That same interest and love for animals compelled him to graduate from the University of California with a degree in Animal Science, in preparation for establishing his own veterinary clinic. However, Seth Lesser’s fate was in training animals. He was drawn to Hawaii during the summer of 1992 to watch a dolphin show. He instantly fell for the dolphins’ aerial acrobatic skills and decided right there and then to become a dolphin trainer. Seth Lesser later landed a job at Dolphin Quest in California as dolphin trainer after taking some lessons at Moorpark College’s Exotic Animal Training and Management (EATM) Program.