Tell SeaWorld: NO MORE CAPTIVE ORCAS; educate handlers
- signatures: 1
- signature goal: 1,000
- Target: Mr. Atchison, SeaWorld
- Sponsored by: Jenni Hamilton
Orcas are of the
most highly social and intelligent creatures on the earth. In the wild
they live w/their families and will have a special dialect between
different families (pods). Captive orcas can become highly aggresive.
The only 4 human "kills" by orcas have happened in captivity and one
specific orca "Tilikum"; killed 3 out of the four. Yet, SeaWorld,
knowing this orca had killed twice before, but SeaWorld still put him in
the show and what is equivalent to that of a backyard pool. Tilikum now
lives in a bathtub and SeaWorld is disobeying court order to no longer
keep the handlers out of the water.
We cannot simply return orcas to the wild the other families will usually kill it or it does not have the social skills needed to survive in the water. Killer Whale sanctuaries are available. Orcas are at the top in the ocean just as we are on land; how is socially responsable to keep them in pools for human entertainment? It is not. WE NEED to Boycott SeaWorld and let them go ... m
We cannot simply return orcas to the wild the other families will usually kill it or it does not have the social skills needed to survive in the water. Killer Whale sanctuaries are available. Orcas are at the top in the ocean just as we are on land; how is socially responsable to keep them in pools for human entertainment? It is not. WE NEED to Boycott SeaWorld and let them go ... m
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