Orcas - Proud Hunters, Pitiful Prisoners

The Orca is the supreme hunters of the sea, but they are also prisoners of the greedy marine captivity industry. It's a story of the good, the bad and the ugly. The good orcas, the bad people who victimize them, and the ugly industry that profits from their misery.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Orca
• Killer
• Whale
• Dolphin
• Sea
• World
• Marineland
• Captivity
• Shedd
• Oceanarium
• Vancouver
• Aquarium

[hotheeltoo]

(does anyone know why thier dorsil fin actually goes limp im just wondering)

i used to loove seaworld i would go all the time then i went Vancoover (hope i spelled that right) and went whale watching a (male orca came 10 feet from the boat) and the told us how orca were taken to seaworld and once a male orca was taken and his pd followed him my life was changed

[SHARKonlineorg]

@hotheeltoo We've heard it could be any number or combination of factors due to stress and the unnatural environment of captivity.

[TheEbonyshadow1]

I wish other people could see what SeaWorld is doing the way you do. If swimming in cricles is justified as exercise, then all orcas would spend their lives doing laps around a concrete bowl. thank you for your videos, i will never go to a rodeo, circus, zoo or "whale jail" ever again.

[SHARKonlineorg]

@TheEbonyshadow1 Thanks for your post. Many groups are working towards freeing these majestic creatures from their despicable money-grabbing prisons. But, as rodeo is a phony 'tradition excuse, SeaWorld is a major money-generating machine with huge corporate bucks behind it and it's going to take changes in laws and people not showing up at their gates to get things changed.

[AnimalLeftist]

@hotheeltoo, it's to do with water pressure. The pressure from the ocean keeps them healthy. Those tiny tanks aren't enough to truly support them, which is why they die young, and suffer in ways we cannot even begin to understand.

[chepes3221]

i wish i could make all those exuses for animal protection and care people ["whale jail" people] perform stupid little tricks and eat only the worst of food, I MEAN COME, ON They dont even live half the life of a free orca, and all that time is wasted on torture and poor exersize

they make me sick

[TheEbonyshadow1]

thank you Steve, and all members of SHARK, without you i would still be "blissfully unaware" of this injustice. maybe someday people and nature can exist harmoniously, but thats one of our only two options, and if i know anything about humans, theyd take the easy way out and hurl themselves and their four-legged, flying and finned neighbors to their destruction.

"A cage with golden bars is still a cage" ~

[SHARKonlineorg]

@banrodeos Thanks for your post and your voice for the animals.

[TunedCavityLasers]

@OneDragonmaster

You didnt pay attention.... tsk tsk... You say they live longer? Perhaps you should watch again and gain some basic statistics on the subject prior to commenting. With an average of 25% or in many cases less, they DO NOT live even close to a full life. What the reality is and a comparison to humans would be an acceptable age of death at 2.5yo up to a whopping 25 years old. Those are pathetic numbers. They can live up to 80 years many captive die under 20! SHAME...

[JoanaBlum]

Intelligent perfection shouldn't be keept by arrogant and selfish human beeings in tiny pools to amuse even more stupid people.