A Look Into How Life for Captive Orcas Differs From Their Wild Counterparts
Support Us By the 1970s, it was common practice for marine mammals, specifically orcas, to be forcibly captured from their home in the ocean, taken from their families, and placed into captivity for entertainment. Although SeaWorld and other marine parks have made advancements in the sizes of the pools orcas are kept in, they’re still, quite literally, the size of a bathtub in comparison to what they would experience in the wild. A captive setting can never recreate their natural environment, and this includes SeaWorld’s recent unveiling of their design for a new orca habitat. The exte...
Source: onegreenplanet.org