FACT FINDING AT SEAWORLD 3 The Killer Whales 13 OCT 2015: At SeaWorld, travel agent winners Sandy Mclary, Gary Hill and Kailey Lockhart, accompanied by SeaWorld’s Randy Anger and I, headed over to the Shamu Stadium for perhaps the most anticipated segment of our fact-finding visit ‘Behind the Scenes at SeaWorld.’ First we watched the show. ‘One Ocean’ is a spectacular combination of energy, rhythm, music, colour and exhilarating fun. If you don’t mind getting drenched sit in the Soak Zone – we chose
We’ve all heard of SeaWorld before. Many of us who have visited this theme park have gotten to experience large marine life right in front of our eyes. As we sit in the stands and applaud the SeaWorld trainers as they conduct a series of tricks by animals like killer whales, many of us fail to see the wrong-doing of keeping these large mammals in such a small space. Although many of the trainers and the SeaWorld franchise tend to promote the happiness of these whales and the bonds they make with
decade, SeaWorld has been under scrutiny for their killer whale program and the number of incidents regarding them. Almost as big as a school bus, these animals are incredibly intelligent. Their brain’s are so much larger than humans. One may think that is because they are so massive, but body size does not determine brain size. Many animals much larger than humans have brains much smaller. Killer whales even have a center of their brain that processes emotions; humans do not have that. SeaWorld has
Gardner Professor Minnis English 1D April 25, 2015 Performing Whales In SeaWorld Killer whales have been a staple for entertainment for decades and it has been attracting guests to various amusement parks throughout the world but theres a hidden world about these animals that not many people know about. Just like with any great business there are things that companies do not want you to know about their products, and things of that nature. Some would say it’s just good business to keep the negative
Future Me Rough Draft Don’t lie, you wonder how the people at SeaWorld train the killer whale and dolphins. Well, I can tell you how, since I’m one of those people. Well, kind of. I am a trainer, not at SeaWorld, but that’s not what I started as, what I’d hoped I would be, or even what I wanted to be going through college. It just so happened that I got offered a job so much better, I gave up on my original dream so I could be a trainer. I wanted to be a biological oceanographer, big name, I know
Why do we enjoy watching other species being enslaved? Killer whales from SeaWorld is an example. SeaWorld should release the killer whales from their captivity. To support the claim a former SeaWorld Trainer interviewed in the article had quoted ‘‘Why Killer Whales Belong in the Ocean, not Sea World’’, ‘‘I owe those whales,” he says in an interview. “They gave me so much in my life and my career.” But the whales’ physical and emotional well-being, he grew to believe, was incompatible with captivity
Killer whales, also known as orcas, are the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. In their natural habitat, killer whales have been described as docile and majestic creatures. Killer whales are known to travel in pods that are composed of matrilines. Matrilines are groups of whales connected by maternal descent. Relationships between killer whale calves and their mother are extremely close knit (“Behavior”). Beginning in 1965, SeaWorld – a marine zoo, began capturing whales from the wild
the documentary, Blackfish (2013), argues that captivity triggers aggression in killer whales. Cowperthwaite supports her argument by demonstrating shocking footage and emotional interviews to present a convincing case against keeping these animals in captivity and for human entertainment. The author’s purpose is to show the problems that are caused by captivity in order to aware the audience that keeping killer whales in captivity affects their behavior mentally and physically. The author writes
the story of a killer whale that, at a young age, was stripped from his mother, and was then taken to perform shows and live in captivity at the highly popular SeaWorld resort. Seeing this killer whale take several lives at SeaWorld, the producers of this documentary hope to reveal the mistreatment of these animals in captivity, exploit the problems that lie within sea-park industries, and show that man has still not learned from the past problematic occurrences with killer whales. • Tilikum was
Killer Whales: Abused & Mistreated While many people have experienced the majestic showcasing of trained orcas in public displays at recreational parks such as SeaWorld, few have heard of the tragic events that these killer whales go through while in captivity. It is ironic that such family oriented companies like SeaWorld, who pride themselves in giving families experiences that they will never forget, can just tear families of killer whales apart and abuse them while training them. And although