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I can't believe anyone would form an opinion because of a single movie. Look at how the global warming supporters have distanced themselves from Al Gore.
Yes, an creature like a killer whale is better off in the wild BUT the only reason a large portion of people care about any animal that is kept in captivity is because they get to see them and they become real to them. If they remain nothing more than something they read about they are only slightly more real to them than a Yeti. Let them experience them first hand and you'll get someone who cares about them.
Blackfish wasn't a movie. It was a documentary film. Did you watch it?
There are 35 species of dolphins, orca whales are one of them.
Read all your posts and all I can do is .
The posts were out there, but I have to say, I never knew Orcas were terrorist of the ocean! Still no reason to capture them and expect them not to kill with a name "Killer Whale."
And orcas are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet.
"Orcas have what researchers call clans or subpods. A clan is a group of intrapods in an area that have a similar (dialect) and a common but distant maternal link."
dialect- a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
(Orcas groups use "slang" when communicating with each other.)
It's not irrelevant. I have not seen it all, it's available online for free but that in no way addresses my point. You would be foolish to base an opinion on one film. A one sided film.
They would quickly die in small cages. When people have to use hyperbole like this you know their point isn't very strong because they feel they must exaggerate.
"In the wild orcas migrate 6000 miles each year, but not to feed or breed, a new study has found. Rather they traverse the sea at top speed, slowing as they reach warmer climes, to exfoliate, the study speculates." Study suggests why orcas migrate north › News in Science (ABC Science)
If a orca was in a cage (1) mile across it would be a small cage.
It's not irrelevant. I have not seen it all, it's available online for free but that in no way addresses my point. You would be foolish to base an opinion on one film. A one sided film.
How is the film one-sided? Sea World presents one side, the happy side, and the documentary presents the ugly side of captivity. Taking animals from their natural environment and try to change their natural behavior? It's like trying to change someone's DNA.
How many tigers/lions attack their trainers? They get them when they are pups and they "train" them and these animals grow up and after years of being together, at one point the animal's natural instinct kicks in and attacks the trainer.
It's foolish to comment on a documentary that you didn't bother to watch.
If they are so smart, empathetic and emotional then why drown a baby in front of its mother just to eat out its tongue? Sounds a bit sadistic to me.
Humans do even worse things. Think about the Holocaust, Sept 11, Arabs torturing women, gang killings, ethnic cleansing, a 14 year old girl in Iraq getting her arms blown off by an American bomb, ex.ex.
And you say its sadistic for orcas to eat just the tongue, But what about you eating veal?
What about you eating pigs that were kept in small indoor cages, that never even saw the sky or sun?
What about humans killing elephants and rhinoceros just for their tusks?
An example of sadistic is 45,000 Americans dying (horrible deaths) each year from not having health insurance, and US republicans refusing to give them insurance.
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