I’m sure each and every one of you have attended a circus, been to an aquarium, or watched a horse race at some point in your life. The animals are cute and the tricks they do are amazing! But behind the scenes, you have no idea how gruesome they are actually treated. Here are some statistics to think about. 96% of circus animals spend their life behind bars. 98% of marine animals die in the process of being moved into a tank. And last but not least, are the greyhounds. Once they begin their racing careers they are kept in cages for 20 hours at a time with only enough room to barely turn around. If these dogs are incapable or racing, which occurs often due to their poor living conditions, they are usually killed. In result of this, an estimate
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Here’s mine, I believe that Seaworld should stop capturing and confining their whale species. To help support my opinion, I have found a great amount of evidence that proves the evils of Seaworld from an online site called SeaWorld of Hurt: Where Happiness Tanks. My first fact includes the Beluga whales. This species is known as the smallest type of whales with a life expectancy of about 35-50 years. Seaworld's aquarium in San Antonio has taken yet another marine animal life in their tanks, this is their second beluga whale death this year. After only 3 weeks of being brought into this world, the prematurely born whale died. This calf was malnourished and was not gaining weight. Every since being taken away from its mother at birth, the baby would not take SeaWorld's’ supplement and henceforth died. The facility in Georgia had a recent death to their baby beluga a month prior to this one. Some may say this is coincidence, but I believe there is no other way to look at this other than these animals could have been prospering in their natural …show more content…
Their average maximum is 60-70 years for males and 80-100 years for females. With this being said, the average lifespan for Orcas in SeaWorld’s so called “care” is a grand average ranging from 9-13 years. For the Orcas that are fortunate enough to be in the wild, they swim on average about 100 miles a day. When the whales have been captured and put into their tanks they would need to swim 1,208 laps around their tank or swim 3,105 times back and forth in the longest part of their tank to reach that number. To make this easier to understand, their tank size is equivalent to a bathtub to us! Because these confined animals are unable to hunt from themselves in the wild, they are given a gelain food supplement made out of the ‘leftovers’ from pig and cow tendons, ligaments, and boiled skin. Typically, you would find an Orca eating fish or a marine animal, not waste from a dead land species. There is one SeaWorld orca weighing in at 12,000 pounds that consumes 83 pounds of gelatin
Here’s mine, I believe that Seaworld should stop capturing and confining their whale species. To help support my opinion, I have found a great amount of evidence that proves the evils of Seaworld from an online site called SeaWorld of Hurt: Where Happiness Tanks. My first fact includes the Beluga whales. This species is known as the smallest type of whales with a life expectancy of about 35-50 years. Seaworld's aquarium in San Antonio has taken yet another marine animal life in their tanks, this is their second beluga whale death this year. After only 3 weeks of being brought into this world, the prematurely born whale died. This calf was malnourished and was not gaining weight. Every since being taken away from its mother at birth, the baby would not take SeaWorld's’ supplement and henceforth died. The facility in Georgia had a recent death to their baby beluga a month prior to this one. Some may say this is coincidence, but I believe there is no other way to look at this other than these animals could have been prospering in their natural …show more content…
Their average maximum is 60-70 years for males and 80-100 years for females. With this being said, the average lifespan for Orcas in SeaWorld’s so called “care” is a grand average ranging from 9-13 years. For the Orcas that are fortunate enough to be in the wild, they swim on average about 100 miles a day. When the whales have been captured and put into their tanks they would need to swim 1,208 laps around their tank or swim 3,105 times back and forth in the longest part of their tank to reach that number. To make this easier to understand, their tank size is equivalent to a bathtub to us! Because these confined animals are unable to hunt from themselves in the wild, they are given a gelain food supplement made out of the ‘leftovers’ from pig and cow tendons, ligaments, and boiled skin. Typically, you would find an Orca eating fish or a marine animal, not waste from a dead land species. There is one SeaWorld orca weighing in at 12,000 pounds that consumes 83 pounds of gelatin