Loro Parque - Blood in the Water

A very interesting article that I highly recommend you read and SHARE;

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Blood-in-the-Water-Keto...

Keto's endoscopy -
http://www.outsideonline.com/featured-videos/Keto-Endoscopy.html

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• blood
• in
• the
• water
• keto
• orca
• killer
• whale
• whales
• SeaWorld
• Loro
• Parque
• animal
• abuse
• endoscopy
• trainer
• death
• orcinus
• captivity
• procap
• anticap
• FreedomForOrcas

[TheWizardAndElphaba]

i have a question... i COMPLETELY support all of your ideas, but i was just wondering how seaworld benefits from sending orcas to loro parque?

[FreedomForOrcas]

@TheWizardAndElphaba - SeaWorld benefits because it means they can keep orcas at LP if they cannot bring them stateside. For example, US laws prevent Morgan from coming into the US, but SeaWorld can still keep her at LP, and use her for breeding.

They are in desperate need of fresh genes, however wild orcas are not allowed to be imported into the US. Loro Parque is in a convenient position that they don't need to answer to US laws. And EU ones now apparently.

[wootirockx]

Omfg, that is absolutely horrific! You can see how stressed out he is! Why did they give him an endoscopy, is he having gasto issues? completely agree with you about the "pod" I herd Kohana is really nasty and Teko gets bullied a lot. Its going to be even worse when Morgan goes there. Morgan needs a mother figure. I have this feeling too that Teko is going to start bullying Morgan to try and get some sort of higher rank... its going to be a disaster.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@wootirockx - I agree, Morgan is too young and an immature whale to be sent to a park with absolutely no pod structure at all. If she were to be sent into captivity, she would need somewhere with an older female who can take care of her.

Also, they did the endoscopy because Keto and the other orcas were eating the tank paint sealant and the trainers wanted to see if it was causing them any pain/problems. Apparently it doesn't, and they still eat the paint to this day :S

[wootirockx]

@FreedomForOrcas I just cant see Morgan fitting in, I really can see Teko bullying her. Seriously? well their methods of giving him the endoscopy is terrible. I actually filled up watching that video, Keto was litually screaming.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@wootirockx - Yeah it was terrible watching it :(

He wasn't even trained for the procedure, and the wooden block shouldn't have been necessary.

[iantaylor124]

And people like GoAwayPeta support Loro parque. Absolutely disgusting.

[Believe13at]

@FreedomForOrcas If I had a choice; I would try realesing her before giving herto a park. If I had to choose a park, I would choose Seaworld San Diego because Corky II is an excellant mother figure and the pod is well structered. Wow I can't spell... but at least if she went to a park like seaworld where they are trained to have tubing go down to their stomach Morgan would never have to go through something like this. Poor Keto it was a terrible video to watch.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@notdotcalm - SeaWorld pretty much controls what happens with the orcas at LP. If they wanted to send her to SW, they could've. They don't care about Morgan, seeing as it was their idea to send her to LP in the first place.

[notdotcalm]

I feel SO Bad for Morgan! I don't want here to go there! I wish she would go to Seaworld were they at least kinda know what they are doing!