Tragedy at Sea World: I feel bad for the whale
source: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/02/25/whale-kills-trainer-at-sea-world-i-fee...
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I feel bad for the whale.
An experienced trainer was killed at SeaWorld in Orlando on Wednesday. The 40-year-old woman, Dawn Brancheau, was taken underwater, thrashed around by the waist, and killed before a horrified audience.
Why was the audience horrified?
Killer whales, or Orcas, are intelligent and social creatures that swim thousands of miles every day. Their families are the most stable of any animal species, especially if we’re counting all my cousins in West Virginia. They also have a sophisticated way of talking to and behaving with each other.
Mother whales and their children stay together all their lives, and sometimes up to four generations travel side by side for decades at a time. In the wild, they are not dangerous to humans and feed on fish, dolphins and other whales. Their songs fill the oceans with beautiful calls to mate, hunt and play.
And yet Sea World’s founders and employees, including the dead trainer, have always believed that it’s perfectly acceptable to take these beautiful creatures from their homes and families, their natural environment, and put them in a small tank …
Keep reading: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/02/25/whale-kills-trainer-at-sea...
An experienced trainer was killed at SeaWorld in Orlando on Wednesday. The 40-year-old woman, Dawn Brancheau, was taken underwater, thrashed around by the waist, and killed before a horrified audience.
Why was the audience horrified?
Killer whales, or Orcas, are intelligent and social creatures that swim thousands of miles every day. Their families are the most stable of any animal species, especially if we’re counting all my cousins in West Virginia. They also have a sophisticated way of talking to and behaving with each other.
Mother whales and their children stay together all their lives, and sometimes up to four generations travel side by side for decades at a time. In the wild, they are not dangerous to humans and feed on fish, dolphins and other whales. Their songs fill the oceans with beautiful calls to mate, hunt and play.
And yet Sea World’s founders and employees, including the dead trainer, have always believed that it’s perfectly acceptable to take these beautiful creatures from their homes and families, their natural environment, and put them in a small tank …
Keep reading: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/02/25/whale-kills-trainer-at-sea...
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