O.R.C.A
Sea World's Little Show of Horror
Problems with Captivity
“And they say that they’re a family. That the whales are in their family. They have their pods but that’s just an artificial assemblage of their collection. However management decides they should mix them–whichever ones happen to be born or bought or brought in–that’s not a family.”
The list created below is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to reasons why Orcas shouldn't be in captivity. The park is not only a hazard to the trainers but also to the whales. This list below represents some of the main reasons that create aggression among whales at the park and in turn the danger for the trainers. SeaWolrd will deny to the general public that these reasons are not truth or causes of captivity. The show must go on for the park and owners profits.
Collapsed Dorsal Fin occurs in 100% of whales in captivity. This same condition occurs in less than 1% in wild male whales.
Whales in the open ocean live in n a complex matriarchal society. This puts large pulls on the outside of the pod. During interactions at the park, females will repeatedly seen scraping the larger males with their teeth.
Whales held in captivity constantly have to have their teeth drilled during the time spent in captivity. The whales break teeth on bars, cement and other objects in the tanks. This forces the whales to have daily interactions of having their teeth sprayed and drilled as needed.
The talks that the whales spend their lives in are the equivalent of a bath tub. The whales swim on average of over 100 miles a day. An orca at SeaWorld would have to swim the circumference of the main pool 1,900 times in one day to swim that same distance.