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Orca's eat seals, people in wet suits look like seals. We are teaching them to play with their food. Not a huge fan of the whale shows. I love looking at them, but that is about it. They really do belong out at sea. That said, for the parks and our amusement we could keep the injured ones in the big tanks for viewing.
So where do you draw the line between animal captivity and pet ownership? Only when entertainment is involved? Does the animal know better? Does the animal even care? Does it matter?
Pets should be domesticated animals, with an exception for fish and turtles.
Stuff like this has happened in the past at Sea World (no deaths, but injury), not just whales, but those lovable dophins you see. I've been to Sea World in Orlando and San Diego plenty of times. They say these trainers are college trained in their field, but I gotta say the ones I see are kids and they don't look much different from the kids selling popcorn at the stands.
People gotta realize Killer Whales, Dolphins, etc...they are all animals/mammals. People put some kind of majestic intellegence to them - they have language, etc. Nahhh, I've read all the studies - when the dolphin is chirping he isn't trying to communicate the pain or the wisdom of his species to all mankind. He simply saying "give me some damn fish".
Condolences to the family but I'm not surprised.
You can't take a magnificent beast like an Orca and train it like a domesticated dog. The Orca should have never been in captivity. Just another example of man trying to play God by trying to control a wild animal that should have not been caged.
Stuff like this has happened in the past at Sea World (no deaths, but injury), ".
Actually it has, this is same whale that killed someone in 1999.
In 1999, Tillikum was blamed for the death of a 27-year-old man whose body was found floating on his back in a tank at SeaWorld, the apparent victim of a whale's "horseplay," authorities said then.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said the man apparently hid in the park until after it closed and then climbed into the tank.
The 11,000-pound, 22-foot-long whale was "not accustomed to people being in his tank" and "wouldn't have realized he was dealing with a very fragile human being," Solomons said at the time.
"He may have been a victim of what a whale would call horseplay, just playing around," Solomons said.
People put some kind of majestic intellegence to them - they have language, etc. Nahhh, I've read all the studies - when the dolphin is chirping he isn't trying to communicate the pain or the wisdom of his species to all mankind. He simply saying "give me some damn fish".
You've read all the studies? Yeah, ok.
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