SeaWorld Education
Q: What can we learn from this?
A: Orcas and dolphins do not belong in captivity!
Satan on Flickr.
This guy wants you to buy a ticket at Seaworld!
An important message from Satan - #DASW
There is a reason why the killer whales who perform at Sea World are given the stage name “Shamu.” It’s a trick used to keep patrons from realizing when one whale dies and is replaced in the show by another. Killer whales die quite often at Sea World. And sometimes people die, too. These passings are the subject of David Kirby’s “Death at Sea World: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity.”
Killer whales are neither killers nor whales. Orcinus orca is a member of the delphinidae family, a dolphin. Through all of recorded history—the first account of orcas comes from Pliny the Elder, circa 77 A.D.—they have presented little threat to humans. In fact, as marine biologist Naomi Rose explains to Mr. Kirby, “no killer whale has ever been reported to have killed a human in the wild, or even seriously injured a human in the wild, and no killer whale has ever been known to be killed in a fight with another whale. All three of those things have happened in captivity.”
“There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.”
Captive - Song of the Orca
There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.
– Jacques Cousteau
If Seaworld is so educational, why do most people still know more about dinosaurs than dolphins after visiting a marine mammal circus?
The Cove PSA - My Friend Is (Japanese subtitles) (by takepart)
Thinking of visiting Miami Seaquarium? Do you believe in slavery?
There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.
