Beached whale

Film and Television Blackfish vs. The Cove INTRO Protecting ocean inhabitants has been the focus of many activist groups, for many years. Despite their efforts, problems still remain, forcing these groups to look at new ways to make people aware of the inhumane treatment and slaughter of marine life. Back in 2009, ex dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry teamed up with Louie Psihoyos to produce The Cove, an 87 minute documentary promoting the protection of dolphins, specifically those being…

At the main Seaworld branches in Florida and California, scientists and park owners are arguing in favor of captivity, saying that they could go extinct in the wild, and keeping them in captivity enables people to selectively breed whales that would otherwise not have found mates. Things such as pollution (biotic and abiotic) can make them ill or kill them, but the water in their tanks is always being filtered and kept fresh, free from pollutants. Dangerous encounters with fishermen who only…

Captive Killer Whales Blackfish is a movie about an orca named Tilikum who was captured at a young age and taken to perform at Sealand. Within a year and a half he was moved to Seaworld for breeding purposes and because Sealand shut down. Tilikum soon became a great attraction and everyone wanted to see him and all the trainers wanted to train him. They all thought Tilikum was an excellent whale, but that is because they were never told that anything bad happened. Unfortunately, Sealand…

I chose this topic for my poster as not only is it a current social injustice problem, but also a serious one. I feel the need to stand up for the animals of SeaWorld, as they have no voice of their own. All animals that can not live without humanity should be able to live as normal as possible. For example, the animals at SeaWorld could live at open-sea sanctuaries, if they can not be returned to the wild. SeaWorld is an example of propaganda, as SeaWorld will tell lies just to interest…

not protecting them and loving them. Animals such as killer whales should be treated fairly but instead they are thrown into small tanks. Killer whales should not be kept in captivity due to the fact that they get inadequate care, they can become emotional and aggressive, and that it is unsafe for trainers to take care of the whales. One reason that killer whales should not be kept in captivity is that they are not as healthy as wild whales even with veterinary care. For example, according to…

Tilikum Imagine being captured and taken away from your family at a young age to live in captivity. This is exactly what happened to an orca whale named Tilikum. Tilikum was born in 1981 and lived at SeaWorld of the Pacific in South Oak Bay, British Columbia. He currently is located in SeaWorld Orlando, Florida. He is the largest orca living in captivity. On February 20, 1991 horror struck Seaworld of the Pacific. Tilikum, along with two other orcas, pulled a young marine biologist under…

been many arguments about the orca whale species, “in the early 2005 orca whales and many other orca tribes had become an endangered species. The population of the Southern Residents Orcas in the Pacific Northwest has declined about 25 percent, and still we have not done enough to help them from disappearing” based on the Orca Lab studies. With only a 50 percent chance of their survival when they are first born, it makes it difficult to estimate the orca whale future. With the problem of Global…

planning to teach us about how whales interact in the wild straying humans away from their glamourous shows. Whilst planning all of these renovations Seaworld also states they have had a decline in visitors in their California location since the recent bill being let out and observed over about stopping whale breeding and whale performances along with the controversial documentary Blackfish coming out (par. 21-30) . In addition of trying to teach us about the wild killer whales Seaworld holds,…

but they also force incest among the whales. Like our own species, incest is seen as taboo to whales. Hargrove explained that one female whale Katina was mated with her son Taku, creating the calf named Nalani. Katina refused to accept Nalani after her birth. Another instance of this was with a whale named Kohana who bred with her uncle Keto two different times. Kohana rejected both of those offspring (Hargrove). It is clear that incest has an impact on the whales. SeaWorld forces this upon them…

prevented. Tilikum is one of the most famous whales and the most dangerous in the SeaWorld fleet, at 12500 pounds and 22 feet long Tilikum is the largest orcas held in captivity. We can trace the physiological behavior of Tilikum back to when he was captured in 1983 at two years old. From a 1976 court ruling SeaWorld could no longer use their previous orca capture…