At the risk of over-exciting all my skeptics, who think I pull SeaWorld orca pregnancies out of my ass, I have been getting word that SeaWorld Texas’ Takara is not pregnant.
A new appeal hearing in the orca Morgan case will come before the Dutch courts soon, possibly as early as August. At stake is the young killer whale’s freedom as well as the potential to set a new legal precedent and change the lives of other captive animals forever.
This depresses me so much. He’s barely got any room to move =[
Oh Kshamenk :(
If you support SeaWorld, you support this.
SeaWorld has paid Mundo Marino to take Kshamenk’s sperm to inseminate their female orcas.
SeaWorld sent a team of their own employees to ‘obtain’ the sperm.
SeaWorld doesn’t give a single fuck about animals, especially not orcas.
Don’t buy into their lies.
It’s as simple as that.
Supposedly Sea World didn’t pay anything for Kshamenk’s sperm…instead they traded their dolphins’ sperm with some of MundoMarino’s female dolphins as MM’s breeding is at a “bottleneck”. Oh, & the orca “stadium” now has a brand new big screen in the wake of SW’s departure…yep, as you can see from the photo of Kshamenk’s pathetic living conditions, a big screen is exactly what he needed (& bet your ass it’s a Technovision screen)…
“And I want to say to everyone…please when you go on holiday, before you swim with dolphins, please think about where they are, think about where they’ve come from, and please don’t do it.”
“…we expect this film to stir public emotion and generate comparisons and renewed attention to the tragic and violent deaths of Ms. Brancheau and Alexis Martinez that occurred just over two years ago. Both trainers were killed by the orcas that they worked with at SeaWorld Florida and Loro Parque on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, respectively, within just a few months of each other.”
Korean Captive Dolphins have a Shot at Freedom
Pro-caps seem to focus a lot of attention on SeaWorld. Many even claim to be pro-captivity and proud. The most widely used argument for keeping these animals captive is: “Not everyone gets to see dolphins in the ocean! This way people can see them and be educated and inspired to save their species in the wild!”
Unfortunately, most of the captivity industry looks more like the photo above, than like SeaWorld. And this “animal ambassador” argument is not just used by SeaWorld fangirls. It’s also used by people who own and operate shoddy facilities, capture wild dolphins, and use abusive training methods. Not only does it “justify” the animal’s captivity but the public swallows the argument hook, line and sinker, thinking that captivity is actually doing a world of good…All in the name of “education and conservation.” Of course there is no benefit for the animals who are kept captive, and the only “good” its doing is lining the pockets of greedy people.
