Marine mammal park

They cannot survive in those conditions, they are large mammals who need to be surrounded by their own kind. A solution to this can be ending the public displays of orcas, it is manageable and the economic impact would be meager. With the remaining forty two orcas they can be put in retirement in sea pens, or be in rehabilitation and someday return to the wild. These Orcas can have a chance to live longer, and trainers would no longer have to risk their lives training them. If oceanarias are worried about losing profit they could try redesigning orca enclosures to satisfy a Killer Whales’ needs better (Rose, 10). However, for change to happen it needs to bring attention to the media and public. Raising awareness of the dangers of captivity is surfacing more, documentaries like The Cove and Blackfish showed the public what really is going on to these creatures. Due to those films SeaWorld’s profits have dropped and more companies have broken ties with them. Slowly it is becoming accepted that Orcas cannot live in their current tanks, in the future they could have a better living condition whether in a marine theme park or in the…

Singer, Tom Regan, John Stuart Mill and Alasdair MacIntyre. Arguments for the use of animal captivity will include those from Immanuel Kant, Aristotle, Carl Cohen and Ernest Partridge. I will also share my results from the questionnaire I conducted and the interview I was lucky enough to have with the Zoo Manager at Flamingo Land to see if his outlook could show animal captivity from a different, possibly more positive light. I will conclude by sharing my own views on the topic and decide…

them in experiments harms them. It is an unethical practice that chimpanzees and any other animal do not consent to. But, despite knowing this, “More than 100 million animals continue to be locked alone inside barren laboratory cages, burned in painful tests, force-fed toxic chemicals, subjected to crippling surgeries, infected with viruses, traumatized in psychological experiments and deprived of nearly everything that makes life worth living.” (Goodman 3). While animal experimentation has…

Now, she lives at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, where she regularly performs for huge crowds of excited onlookers. She’s easy to work with, knows many tricks, and has had seven calves. Her calf Kalina was the first healthy killer whale born in captivity. “[Katina] was one of the first animals I ever got in the water with,” says John Jett, currently a marine mammal scientist at Stetson University. For four years in the 1990s, he was a trainer at SeaWorld. Now, John Jett feels that it is morally…

Panda are a big ticket item in all zoos. Pandas bring prestige and fame to a zoo. What most people don’t know though, is that fame and prestige cost a lot of money. For each panda that a zoo has, it cost them one million dollars per year plus another six hundred thousand dollars every time a cub is born. On top of that, the money that the zoos make annually is not enough to cover the cost of the pandas (Washington Post 2). Pandas are not worth one million dollars a year, simply to look at. There…

apply basic physiological research efforts and state-of-the-art reproductive technologies toward wildlife species management and conservation.” The first park was opened in 1964. Sea World currently operates three locations that entertain guests with animal shows, water parks, roller coasters, animal interactions, and exhibits. Sea World attracts over 11 million visitors per year and in 2012 reported $1.42 billion in revenue. The park spends millions of dollars on research, conservation, and…

but for most zoos, it’s impossible to mimic what it would be like in the wild. A thought that comes to my mind is that zoos should try sort of a Jurassic Park themed zoo. Not with dinosaurs, obviously, but rather having a huge park where animals could roam freely with other species of animals. It could give a real life like sanitary for people to visit, while still providing safety for the animals with veterinarians on staff. The amount of room available is a problem for every…

Numerous menageries and marine exhibits all over the world have left animals to rot in their cramped cages when they die; left animals unfed, untreated for wounds; or left in areas so minuscule they cause psychological trauma. Seaworld has some of the worst cases of animal cruelty on documentation. One of the most notorious cases of animal cruelty in Seaworld is their care of orcas. Seaworld keeps orcas in containers inadequate for their size. At night, the orcas are placed in a cramped shelter…

Have you ever realized how zoo animals live? Imagine seeing an elephant in the zoo just standing there doing nothing, but then in movies and pictures you see them always walking and playing just always doing something. They don't have that choice in the zoo. Animals should not be kept in zoos or in captivity because they don't have the life they would have in their natural habitat, they are not taken care of well and they are not happy. Animals don't have as much space in the zoo as they would…

I chose the Vancouver Aquarium because it is known to be the largest aquarium in all of Canada and gives us a clear representation of why the Pacific Maritime is famous for their sea animals. One of Pacific Maritime’s most popular attraction is whale-watching but instead of making a game out of it and risk not seeing a whale, the Vancouver Aquarium represents the whales in a historic way. This particular Aquarium has a long past with whales like the killer whale, Moby Doll who was the second…