Captive vs. Wild: Death Rate Comparisons

This video was mainly created in response to flargmuffin92's video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8xvtIOdDk which has since been removed (perhaps the account has been removed as well.)
And partially in response to "The Glorious Life of a Wild Orca," of the same creator.
I can only hope that the pro-captivity videos were removed due to the false information that I have now exposed in this video.

Sources:
Birth/Death rates of the Southern Resident Community
Martin Taylor, Ph.D., Population biology & Brent Plater, Ecologist.
The Center for Biological Diversity Tucson, Arizona
http://courses.washington.edu/mb351/readings/taylor_plater.pdf

Birth/Death rates of Captive whales*:
http://www.orcahome.de/orcadead.htm
http://theorcaproject.wordpress.com/about-2/appendix-a-captive-orca-longevity/

226 whales taken into captivity-40 still alive today= 186 deaths (156+30 stillbirths)
186 is 83% of 226.

157 whales in the SR community- 78 still alive today = 79 deaths.
79 is 50% of 157

*these birth and death rates change consistantly, especially in wild populations. Allow for very slight differences in numbers.

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