Orca Captivity Research Paper

For over many years orcas have been held in captivity and taken from their families in which they swim in pods, and stay alongside their intermediate family at all times. When being held in captivity animal abuse is takes place, as well all know SeaWorld is known for their “Shamu shows”. They use orcas as their main source of profit by torturing them to perform tricks that capture the audience attention. The dangers that come with this are orcas taxing their physical heath and drives the whales mad which can lead to death or injuries of SeaWorld trainers.
To begin with, killer whales in captivity are psychologically traumatized, they are used to swimming hundreds of miles each day, and in those small pools they are in they don’t have the opportunity to do that. Moreover, orcas need to swim 1,208 laps …show more content…
Being able to live up to all those years is something the whales should have. Orcas tend to go crazy while being held in captivity which can result to an injury or even death for a SeaWorld trainer. The resulting of anxiety and tension lead up to these bad things happening. Why would we want a human being to lose their life over something that can be prevented. Things like this have never been documented in the wild. Having an amazing integrated auditory and visual regions of the brain is so great for the orcas. This means that their echolocation is phenomenal. It is proven a stress of an orca can lead to aggressive behavior that may endanger professionals as well as visitors. In addition the average of death for orcas who have died a SeaWorld is 13 years old. SeaWorld’s corporate incident logs contains more than 100 incidents that orcas cause. In 2006 an attack by an orca on a trainer at SeaWorld was the mark of orca attacks. Any further investigation into these attacks could have prevented injuries and