How would you feel if you were taken from your home, put in a small enclosure, and forced to do tricks multiple times a day, seven days a week? This is a daily struggle for many orcas in captivity. Many people feel that Orcas being held in captivity is affecting them.
First, their capturing is bitter. One orca, named Shamu, was captured and watched her mother die. SeaWorld of Hurt states, “During Shamu’s capture, her mother was shot with a harpoon and killed before the young orca’s very eyes by a marine ‘cowboy’ named Ted Griffin.” Many orcas at SeaWorld were taken from their homes. SeaWorld of Hurt also states, “Five orcas currently at SeaWorld were kidnapped from their ocean homes, as others who have since died. For example, Tilikum… was captured at the age …show more content…
They are kind animals in the wild. They do not wish to harm humans in the wild. The article from SeaWorld of Hurt states, “In the wild, despite centuries of sharing the ocean, there has been only a single reliable report of an orca harming a human being.” The texts from SeaWorld of Hurt also states, “Because of the stress involved in being deprived of everything that is natural and important to orcas in captivity, orcas have attacked and killer three humans just since 1991 and many others have been injured.” If they aren’t harming humans in the wild, why is it different in captivity? Their swimming behaviors are also not normal. They are not swimming as much as they would be in the wild. The author states, “SeaWorld confines orcas, who could swim up to 100 miles a day in the wild, to tanks that, to them, are the size of a bathtub.” They would need to swim many laps around the tank to be equivalent to what they would normally swim in the wild. The text states, “They would need to swim 1,208 laps (around the perimeter of the tank) or 2,105 lengths (back and forth at the longest part of the tank) in the park’s largest tank to equal what they’d swim in the