FraserLynn
08-01-2017, 14:19
Great news
Sea world have finally accepted that making the Killer Whales perform tricks for their food is cruel and unacceptable. This is on the back of the death of Tilikum.
It has taken them a while, but this is their second step, the first one being stopping the cruel forced breeding programme that led to families of whales being ripped apart (something that wouldn't happen in the wild). We can only hope that they are close to the final step - finding a way of returning these magnificent creatures to an environment closer to their natural habitat.
The only sad thing is that they more than anyone must have known how cruel this was and yet it has taken commercial pressure to get them to do the right thing (probably not a surpris
Sea world have finally accepted that making the Killer Whales perform tricks for their food is cruel and unacceptable. This is on the back of the death of Tilikum.
It has taken them a while, but this is their second step, the first one being stopping the cruel forced breeding programme that led to families of whales being ripped apart (something that wouldn't happen in the wild). We can only hope that they are close to the final step - finding a way of returning these magnificent creatures to an environment closer to their natural habitat.
The only sad thing is that they more than anyone must have known how cruel this was and yet it has taken commercial pressure to get them to do the right thing (probably not a surpris