orcas belong in the ocean not at seaworld !

    SeaWorld is a marine theme park chain in America it opened on March 21st, 1964; 53 years ago. On average SeaWorld gets 11 million visitors per year usually visiting to see its famous killer whale shows however theses marine mammal shows cause a lot of controversy as most people strongly believe that orcas belong in the ocean not a small enclosure where they are put under a lot of pressure to perform as at the end of the day they are wild animals and if we continue to mistreat them then they will start to see us as a threat and in the ocean orcas only attack another animal if it is seen as a threat to them. In the past there have been incidents that have resulted in serious injury and death.

    Orcas at SeaWorld spend most of their time floating at the surface of the water with little to no shade from the sun. In the wild, orcas spend up to 95 percent of their time submerged and would find shade in the depths of the ocean, but at SeaWorld their tanks are far too shallow. Their deepest tank is 40 feet deep which is nowhere near deep enough to block out sunlight.
    Sea world tries to hide these sunburns from the public eye by covering them with black zinc oxide which matches their skin almost perfectly so we can’t see how hurt they are.

    Orcas in the wild have an average life expectancy of 30 to 50 years—their estimated maximum life span is 60 to 70 years for males and 80 to more than 100 for females. However the median age of orcas in captivity is only 9.

    In the wild orcas on average swim up to 100 miles a day are 10 meters long and weigh about 5000kg and are the only animal in the ocean powerful enough to attack a great white shark but sea world makes them live in small enclosures that would be almost equivalent to a person living in a bathtub the orcas are often forced to live together which leads to them fighting each other the enclosures don’t allow space for the whales to swim away from each other therefore the fights can end in death.

    Orcas are also highly social marine mammals they travel in groups called pods. Pods usually consist of 5 - 30 whales, people working for SeaWorld kidnap orcas from their families and isolate them at SeaWorld in the past this has given the killer whales such bad depression that they have attempted suicide either by repeatedly swimming at the enclosure walls to knock themselves out.
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