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Organizations & Suggestions

  • The Orca Project
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation
  • Animal Welfare Institute
  • Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International
  • Animal Legal Defense Fund
  • Humane Society International
  • Nonhuman Rights Project
  • Just free the whales!

Workcited

Captivity. (n.d.). <i>WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation</i>. Retrieved June 19, 2014, from http://us.whales.org/issues/captivity

Killer Whales in Captivity - Killer Whale Facts and Information. (n.d.). <i>Killer Whale Facts and Information</i>. Retrieved June 19, 2014, from http://www.killer-whale.org/killer-whales-in-captivity/

Captivity Is Dangerous to Killer Whales and Their Keepers, Report Shows. (n.d.). <i>: The Humane Society of the United States</i>. Retrieved June 19, 2014, from http://m.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2011/09/keeping_killer_whales_09192011.html#.U3IQByy9Kc0

False Killer Whale - Ocean Adventure, Subic Bay Marine Theme Park. (n.d.). <i>Ocean Adventure Subic Bay Marine Theme Park</i>. Retrieved June 19, 2014, from http://www.oceanadventure.com.ph/our-animals/false-killer-whale/

Jozu, SeaWorld's last surviving false killer whales, dies. (n.d.). <i>Jozu, SeaWorld's last surviving false killer whales, dies</i>. Retrieved June 19, 2014, from http://m.digitaljournal.com/article/326093

. (n.d.). <i></i>. Retrieved June 19, 2014, from http://www.wdcs.org/submissions_bin/captivitybnd.pdf

Major Catastrophes

  • Attacks on trainers
  • Killer Whale vs. Killer Whale
  • Emotional Trauma
  • Stress
  • Disruption in pod members' lives
  • Premature death and birth

Bottlenose Dolphins

"A dolphin's smile is its biggest lie." - Rick O'Barry

  • Most common cetacean held in captivity
  • Average life span in wild: 70 years or longer
  • Average life span in captivity: 45 to 50 years

Cetaceans Currently Held

  • Diet in the wild: fish, squid, and crustaceans
  • Diet in captivity: frozen fish
  • From 1972-1999 2,300 were captured in the US
  • Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins are the latest obsession
  • Killer Whales/Orcas
  • False Killer Whales
  • Bottlenose Dolphins
  • Beluga Whales
  • Pilot Whales
  • Commerson's Dolphin
  • Pacific White-Sided Dolphin
  • Boto
  • Harbour Porpoises
  • Boredom and Traumatic Culture are the leading causes of death
  • Dolphinariums

Beluga Whales

"We have capture Beluga Whales in order to save them." - Georgia State Aquarium

False Killer Whales

Killer Whales

"Those who become trainers because they love the animals usually end up leaving for exactly the same reason" - Ex Seaworld Trainer

  • Life span in wild: 50 to 90 years or longer

”My point is simple: these incredible animals deserve better. They don’t deserve cleaner water or more trainers. They deserve freedom. They deserve the oceans of the world. And, perhaps most importantly, we don’t deserve them.” - iHowie

  • Life span in captivity: 20 years or shorter
  • Diet in wild: sharks, fish, squid, and other whales
  • Diet in captivity: frozen fish and vitamins
  • Life span in wild: 35-50 years
  • Life span in captivity: teens to early 20s
  • 30 currently held in North America
  • Cultures around the world are obsessed with the eerie white of a beluga
  • Most vocal of all cetaceans
  • August 2013, a trainer at Marineland was injured during a show with two belugas
  • 45 live in captivity today

Dr. Lori Marino

  • 140 have died in captivity
  • Life span in wild: 60s
  • Life span in captivity: teens
  • Jozu, the last one held in captivity, died in 2012
  • They tend to "go soft" in captivity
  • Many die within months of capture
  • Prefer deep, open water
  • Once a female gives birth, she will not breed again for 7 years

Cetaceans are K-Selected

  • >1% have dorsal collapse in wild, while it occurs 100% of the time in captivity
  • Capture causes trauma and stress
  • Young calves stay with their mothers until 4 years of age
  • They stay together in the same pod
  • Cetaceans have one calf at a time
  • With a 3 to 10 year separation
  • 4 people have been killed by captive Killer Whales, including dozens of more attacks

Cetaceans in Captivity

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