Put an End to SeaWorld

Imagine being stuck in a small room for all of your life. Wouldn’t it get very stressful? Well, that's what it's like for the animals at SeaWorld. SeaWorld is terrible place that should be shut down. There are many reasons for this. The park is not safe and multiple people and animals have been hurt there, the animals are mistreated and taken from their families in the wild, also, they lie about the condition of the animals and about the accidents that have occurred. If they can’t be trusted to tell the truth, then why should they stay open. SeaWorld is a place that should be shut down.
One reason that SeaWorld shouldn’t stay open is that it isn’t safe. More that five people have died at Sea World because of orcas getting aggressive at the trainers. The animals get aggressive because they are kept in the small living areas. This has caused 151 incidents in which people have been attacked by orcas in captivity. One way that people can know this isn’t normal is because there have been no recorded orca attacks in the wild. And since the trainers at SeaWorld have no marine education, they don’t know what to expect.
Another reason that SeaWorld should be shut down is because they steal orcas from their families in the wild and mistreat them in the parks. One of their whales, Tilikum, was taken from his family at the age of 2 years old. SeaWorld kept him in a small area with other females that attacked him, and they didn’t do anything about it. They also had him train with a trained whale, and if he didn’t do the tricks right, they didn’t give food to either of the whales. This has happened to many of the other animals they’ve kept in captivity. They don’t give them food unless they do the wanted trick. The whales are also kept in small areas when they are used to swimming up to 100 miles a day. This can also cause the orcas to go insane from boredom and confinement. The small area’s that they are kept in are not able to protect them from the sun. Their way of staying cool is going deep down into the ocean where the sun can’t reach them, but the tanks aren’t big enough for that. Seaworld uses black zinc to cover up the burns from the public.
One last reason for why SeaWorld should be shut down is because they lie about their orcas. There are many things that aren’t right. For one thing, they lie about the life span of the orca’s to make them look like their thriving in captivity, when in reality, their life span has shortened by at 50-80 years. Another thing they lie about is the health of their orca’s. They also like about their performances and the injuries that have occurred, blaming it on the trainers instead of the whales, because that causes people to think the orcas are still good. One more thing they lie about is that they say everyone that works at SeaWorld has marine education, but in reality, the workers are only performers, not marine experts.
SeaWorld should be shut down. It isn’t safe, they mistreat their animals, and they lie. People should know what's really going on to animals that are in places like SeaWorld. Children should not grow up to a world where they think it is okay to keep animals in captivity. And animals should not be kept in little tanks for most of their lives. These are some reason for why Seaworld should be closed down

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