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Should captive whales be in captivity? There are more damages to the killer whales when they are in captivity than when they are in the wild. In captivity, killer whales have a shorter life span than their wild counterparts. Captive whales live in tiny tanks and try to bang their head on their way to freedom. In captivity, killer whales have a bent dorsal fin and feed on an incorrect diet. When orcas are in captivity, they are forced into new families that have a different language than they do. With new families, fighting can occur.

Keywords: orcas, short life span, tiny tanks, freedom, bent dorsal fin, wrong diet, fights, and fighting dynamics

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Short Life Span, Tiny Tanks, and Wanting Freedom

Adult male orcas seem to have a bent dorsal fin when they are in captivity. The reason for the bent dorsal fin is because they have an inadequate amount of swimming room in their tiny tanks and because they are given a very unhealthy diet for the whales to grow strong. Another reason for the bent dorsal fin is because they do not have the depth and speed when they are in their tiny tank to sustain the pressure on their dorsal fin. The bent dorsal fin can be caused with “time spent at the water surface, swimming in the same direction in a relatively small pool. The tissue in the dorsal fin gets less of a workout, and less support in the water” (orcanetwork.org). In the wild, a bent dorsal fin is possible. A study of killer whales happened in New Zealand in 1998, and it showed a 23 percent rate of killer whale dorsal fins bending. This observation of killer whale bent dorsal fins was significantly higher than in British Columbia or even Norway. The researchers of this study believe the reason for the bent dorsal fin is because of age, stress, or even intense squabbles with other killer whales.

Orcas in captivity do not hunt or acquire water from their prey when they eat it. In captivity, orcas are given pig, crabs, and gelatin. Gelatin is “a substance that is not natural for them,” (seaworldofhurt.com) but it is the whales’ captors that attempt to keep them hydrated like they do in the wild. In the wild, whales eat up to 136 kilograms in a single day! Their food includes: fish, squid, marine birds, and many different species of marine mammals. The fish orcas hunt in the wild include: sharks and rays. These mammals include: “sea otters, seals, sperm whales, minke whales, humpback whales, gray whales, and blue whales.

Bent Dorsal Fin & Incorrect Diet Orcas have a very strong family bond and are extremely social animals when they are in the wild. In the wild, orcas live in pods that consist of family members that they were born with and grew up with. In the wild, the pods are an extremely stable social groups that are from two to fifteen individuals. In some pods, the children from the pods stay with their mothers throughout their entire life. That can be about 25 to 100 years of being with ones’ parents! That is a really long time! When orcas are put into captivity, they are separated from their familial bonds of their wild counterparts. Mothers are separated from their sons and daughters. Friends are separated from each other.

What happens to orcas who have been separated from their pods in the wild? The orcas live with other orcas from completely different family units. Each different orca from the family units have a completely different languages from their counterparts. They never get used to the group because they are always moved between different facilities for breeding and performing for hundreds of people for their own entertainment.

Fighting with each other is very common of orcas when they are in captivity. Because these orcas are held in tight spaces with other orcas that they do not have strong enough bonds with, they become stressed that causes them to fight. However, in the wild, killer whales barely ever fight unless for extreme reasons. There are barely any reasons for killer whales to fight in the wild. In the wild, killer whales have social rules where they can never have be seriously violent with one another. In the wild, if violence ever does happen, they can swim away and flee from the situation. Orcas in captivity, they cannot swim away and that leads to injuries and in extreme cases; to death.

Fights & Family Dynamics

Conclusion

Killer whales in captivity have very different lives than their wild counterparts. Whales in the wild have a longer life span, have a larger area to roam, most do not have a bent dorsal fin, have the ability to hunt their food, live with their original family, and rarely get into fights with each other. Orcas should be set free to live their long lives without cages.

Works Cited

Balcomb, K. (1993, January 1). A Review of the Releasability of Long-Term Captive Orcas: Survival Rates in Captivity. Retrieved December 9, 2014 from http://www.orcanetwork.org/nathist/releasability/survival.htm

Bradford, A. (2014, November 20). Orcas: Facts About Killer Whales. Retrieved December 9, 2014, from http://www.livescience.com/27431-orcas-killer-whales.html

Darling, A. (2014, December 7). Could You Live in a Bathtub? Retrieved December 9, 2014, from http://www.betterworldclub.com/blog/2014/08/07/could-you-live-in-a-bathtub/

Kennedy, J. (n.d.). What Causes a Killer Whale’s Dorsal Fin to Collapse? Retrieved December 9, 2014, from http://marinelife.about.com/od/marinelife101/f/killerwhaledorsalfincollapse.htm

PETA. (2014). 8 Reasons Orcas Don’t Belong at SeaWorld – SeaWorld of Hurt. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2014, from http://www.seaworldofhurt.com/features/8-reasons-orcas-dont-belong-seaworld/

The Orca Zone-About Orcas-Diet-A Site Dedicated to Wild and Captive Orca Whales. (2005, January 1). Retrieved December 9, 2014, from http://www.orca-zone.com/aboutorcas/diet.html

Orcas in captivity only live to be 9 years old. In the wild, the males can live up to 70 years and females can live up to 100 years! The oldest whale died at 25 years old. That is half their average life span in the wild. Orcas live in tiny tanks when they are in captivity. The tank is only 350 feet in length and 40 feet deep. That does not seem big enough for a 6 ton and 32 foot whale. That is equivalent to having a human being inside a bathtub. A 6 ton whale probably would not like to live in a bathtub either, that they are living in currently in captivity. They are an extremely humongous creature. In the wild, orcas swim up to 100 miles a day, but in captivity they have to swim about 1900 times around their tiny tank to reach 100 miles. The tank is also “only 40 feet deep” (betterworldclub.com). The tanks are also filled with dangerous chemicals that causes skin ailments to the whales. From having to swim 1900 times around their tiny tank, the orcas grow restless. Orcas bang their heads on the walls and gnaw on the iron bars as well as the concrete to try to gain their freedom. The Killer Whales probably bang their heads on the walls of their prison and gnaw at their prison bars because they are stressed and anxious about being in a small tank with different whales who do not know how to communicate with each because they have a different language.

By  Rachel  Allcock  The  Damage  of  Cap)ve  Whales  

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