Morgan con el Grupo

Morgan disfruta de la compañia del resto de orcas del parque.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Morgan
• orca
• killer whale
• Loro Parque
• pod

[ICFushiPanda]

Everyone needs to remember that a release was POSSIBLE, but NOT PRACTICAL. Some of you say the Dolfinarium gave excuses why she couldn't be released. What do think her rehab team would've done had her release failed? You can bet they would've given any and all reasons to keep Morgan in a seapen had a release failed and she not been able to integrate and join a wild pod, and the "experts" would've backed them up. Then Morgan would've been forced to live in a seapen ALONE for the rest of her life.

[ICFushiPanda]

So it baffles me how some are so easily acceptable of the idea that it would've been okay to keep Morgan in a seapen alone for the rest of her life had her release failed. Sorry, I don't agree with that backup plan. There was no guarantee that Morgan would've made it to join a wild pod and it was already well documented that the backup plan was a seapen, and although some of you might've hoped they would've provided her with an orca companion in the seapen, you may as well have kept dreaming.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@TheFrogster235 - Thank you! And agreed completely. Money inevitably won over science in this case.

[TheFrogster235]

@FreedomForOrcas exactly, over 40 international orca experts, including 4 who were employed by Dolphinarium Harderwijk themselves were fighting for Morgans rehab and release. Some people should face the fact that Morgan wasnt sent to Loro Parque because it was in her best interest, she was sent there because parts of the EC Directives are unclear and left loopholes in the legalities of it all.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@IAmADalek - What in actual hell is "activists science"? Sounds like some bull term that you wanted to coin to make it seem worse than it actually was. Face it, you can use all the negative words you want, but the fact remains - the world's top orca scientists supported Morgan's release. Even people who WORKED for the Dolfinarium supported Morgan's release.

And I honestly doubt you'd ever speak out against anything a marine park did. Never.

[IAmADalek]

@FreedomForOrcas What I'm saying is that Activists "Science" is a joke. It wasn't science in the slightest it was a "I don't like captivity, therefore she shouldn't be there regardless of her health or well being." Springer is not 100%, she still moves between the pods. It has been noticed and it has been talked about, but Anti's can't handle the fact that it didn't go 100%. If Morgan's chances had been good, then I might have changed how I speak, but it wasn't.

[ICFushiPanda]

Consider what it truly means to be an orca. What is it about orcas that make them the complex intellectual beings that they are? Is it because they live in the ocean? There's no doubt their wild habitat provides unmatchable stimulation and has helped orcas evolve, BUT do you think orcas would be what they are had they evolved as solitatry creatures? I highly doubt that. Their social complexity and culture is what makes them the superior predators that they are.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@IAmADalek - cont'd... are you saying science is irrational? What a joke.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@IAmADalek - cont'd, and she does not trail them. According to witnesses, Springer is a healthy and active member of the pod, and if she just trailed them all the time, you'd think after 5 years we would notice it. Springer was trained properly for rehab, and even though she tried to follow boats occasionally, her pod taught her proper behaviour. She is 100% fine now. This should've happened to Morgan, it's only because a marine park got her first.

[FreedomForOrcas]

@IAmADalek - You have not presented a single point that says Morgan was unreleasable. The Dolfinarium didn't even try to rehabilitate her, which was their JOB. And you seemed to miss the part where I said that she was feeding properly within an hour. According the reports of her health, all she had was worms and was a bit underweight. No joke.

Concerning Springer, that's a lot of assumptions you have there. If you read the sighting reports, she shows up with the exact same pod every season...