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The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity, (Fourth revised edition). (2009).
It may interest you to know that while SeaWorld greatly promotes the appearance of marine education it is not run by a zoologist Society or naturalist organization. Instead the owners of this corporation were one of America’s largest book publishers after the original idea of opening an underwater restaurant failed. and is now owned and operated by The Blackstone Group who purchased it from Anheuser-Bush. Now, it doesn’t need to be said but I will anyways- none of these companies have anything to do with marine life or any animals for that matter! What they happen to be are companies organized for commercial purposes, more specifically, they are enterprises …show more content…
He goes on to talk about orca dolphins and how they are the most family oriented animals on the planet, they stay together until the day they die, or are captured. It is well known that the life expectancy in captive orca dolphins is much shorter than their natural life span. To see the numbers is really disturbing. Of the 194 captive Orcas world wide 130 wont live past the first year in captivity, of the 64 that are left, not even thirty will live to be twenty years old. This is based on the 2008 Marine Mammal Inventory kept by the U.S. marine fisheries …show more content…
He also witnessed a mother teaching her kids how to break off pieces of sponge and using it as protection when they hunt. It is not only this use of tools but the group teaching environment that rival even our sister species chimpanzees in intelligence. Once you see how dolphins are sentient being who are aware enough to become dissatisfied in captivity it really is difficult to hear about their quality of life in captivity. First of all the tanks they are kept in are too small. Orcas and dolphins often travel from 80 to 100 miles per day and keeping them in a fish bowl isn’t healthy for them. The more serious concern however comes from the dolphin’s echolocation. This is their main communication; dolphins make over 700 clicks per second that can carry for several hundred miles. When they are enclosed and try to speak the radar bounces off the sides of the tank for a long time. This has been know to make their ears bleed and they can go deaf, but even if they don’t they can’t hear each other or them selves. Many orcas and dolphins in captivity are driven insane from the constant noise and swim into the sides of their tank as a result of the stress.
The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity, (Fourth revised edition). (2009).
It may interest you to know that while SeaWorld greatly promotes the appearance of marine education it is not run by a zoologist Society or naturalist organization. Instead the owners of this corporation were one of America’s largest book publishers after the original idea of opening an underwater restaurant failed. and is now owned and operated by The Blackstone Group who purchased it from Anheuser-Bush. Now, it doesn’t need to be said but I will anyways- none of these companies have anything to do with marine life or any animals for that matter! What they happen to be are companies organized for commercial purposes, more specifically, they are enterprises …show more content…
He goes on to talk about orca dolphins and how they are the most family oriented animals on the planet, they stay together until the day they die, or are captured. It is well known that the life expectancy in captive orca dolphins is much shorter than their natural life span. To see the numbers is really disturbing. Of the 194 captive Orcas world wide 130 wont live past the first year in captivity, of the 64 that are left, not even thirty will live to be twenty years old. This is based on the 2008 Marine Mammal Inventory kept by the U.S. marine fisheries …show more content…
He also witnessed a mother teaching her kids how to break off pieces of sponge and using it as protection when they hunt. It is not only this use of tools but the group teaching environment that rival even our sister species chimpanzees in intelligence. Once you see how dolphins are sentient being who are aware enough to become dissatisfied in captivity it really is difficult to hear about their quality of life in captivity. First of all the tanks they are kept in are too small. Orcas and dolphins often travel from 80 to 100 miles per day and keeping them in a fish bowl isn’t healthy for them. The more serious concern however comes from the dolphin’s echolocation. This is their main communication; dolphins make over 700 clicks per second that can carry for several hundred miles. When they are enclosed and try to speak the radar bounces off the sides of the tank for a long time. This has been know to make their ears bleed and they can go deaf, but even if they don’t they can’t hear each other or them selves. Many orcas and dolphins in captivity are driven insane from the constant noise and swim into the sides of their tank as a result of the stress.