Quarter 2 argumentative essay How would you feel if you were taken away from your family? Tilikum an orca whale was taken away from his family when he was captured. Tilikum could only swim in small circles for a year before being transferred to Seaworld. In 1991 a trainer named Keltie Byrne fell into the pool with three orcas. She was tossed around and eventually drowned. Tilikum was then sold to another Seaworld. In 1999 and 2010 two more people died because of Orca whales at Seaworld. Tilikum couldn’t deal with the stress and aggression. The cages were too small for Tilikum and many other animals. Animals get zoochosis because of these cages causing them to go crazy like Tilikum. 175 million people visit zoos each year. Zoos and Aquariums should be banned because people are entertained, but the animals are mistreated and may suffer mentally and physically. …show more content…
Enclosure means being trapped or stuck in something such as a cage. A political cartoon is showing that an elephant can't move and is stuck in his cage. The man is saying that it is slightly different in the wild. It is not slightly different in the wild it is very different. Animals are free in the wild and happy. (Philadelphia Zoo elephant) At the Denmark zootopia it gives animals a real habitat and the humans get to watch the animals but without the animals knowing. Animals are being trapped in their cage because the cages are too small. (design media lab) In this political cartoon it is showing dumb scientists not knowing why whales are dying and it is because the cages are too small and they are trapped and may not be able to breathe. (Bierman) The cages being too small are just one reason why zoos and aquariums should not be allowed and should be
This resulted in him spending the majority of his time in isolation, something orca whales are not used to. They are known for being social, emotional creatures. They spend their whole life in their pods and form very close bonds with each other. SeaWorld’s arrangement of whales is extremely unnatural because they put random, unrelated whales in a small area together. By doing this, they add to these animals’ frustrations of being in captivity. Years passed, and Tilikum became a part of the main show at SeaWorld. One night in 1999, a man snuck into the park, assumably to see the whales up close. He was found the next morning, draped across Tilikum’s back without any clothes. Among many other injuries, his genitals were ripped off and eaten by the massive whale. SeaWorld public relations released the easy story of a mentally unstable man wanting to have a one on one experience with a killer
They succeed in catching Tilikum, a large male orca, along with two other females, and almost immediately, an important question is raised in the viewer’s mind: What gives humanity the right to incarcerate and separate these animals from their natural environment and their families? As the documentary progresses, Tilikum begins to exhibit frustration and aggressive behavior at the amusement park due to the fact that he is being kept in a small underwater storage container when not on display. Eventually, this treatment leads Tilikum to kill his trainer by dragging her to the bottom of the performance tank and forcing her to drown. At this point, another question is presented: Is Tilikum’s aggressive behavior a product of nature, and the nature of orcas as a species, or is it due to his coerced captivity? Over the course of the documentary, a number of killer whales are caught and brought to different aquatic parks where the viewer gets a behind-the-scenes look at what happens to these animals and their families upon imprisonment.
How would you like to be abducted from your family and locked in a bathtub to live out the rest of your days and be used as a source of entertainment? That is exactly what happens when an orca is captured, which is disgusting and pure evil. The Documentary Blackfish by Gabriela Cowperthwaite helps depict the horrors that orcas face while in captivity and reveals the ugly and hidden side of SeaWorld. Blackfish does a great job at showing what SeaWorld has been hiding and really makes you hate them. The main focus of Blackfish is on an orca named Tilikum who was captured off the eastern region of Iceland when he was two years old. Tilikum was first sent to Sealand where he was constantly getting attacked by the other orcas, which made him very
Orca whales do not like to be taken from their family, held captive for many decades and put with other whales that they do not know. No other living organism on this planet would like to be put through the same thing. Orca whales are highly social animals, they are very intelligent, and are very emotional. If they are kept away from other whales, fed intermittently and received little attention from staff makes them get very emotional and can lead to death of people and the whales. Orca whales should not be held captive; they are beautiful creatures that are not great for people’s amusement and if they are treated poorly, they will act poorly.
If you were forced to live inside of a bathtub your entire life wouldn 't you get a little agitated? These words give insight to what is the tragic life of a captive orca whale in Seaworld. Beautiful and majestic creatures are turning into bloodthirsty bitter creatures due to the unnatural living environments they are forced in to. These animals are victims to the brutal tyrant that is Seaworld.
After the death on February 24, 2010 of Dawn Brancheau, Orca trainer, SeaWorld has faced much controversy surrounding the captivity of Orca Whales and the physical and emotional well-being it has on the whales and also the danger that the trainers at SeaWorld face. Although these dangers occur, SeaWorld continues to be in support of the captivity; claiming that only good comes from keeping these large sea animals. SeaWorld claims that captivity provides the opportunity for the public to observe and learn directly from the animals, provides research benefits vital to the health and welfare of the future of these animals and provides conservation programs to save animals. But animals should not have to be punished for our own personal amusement and fun. When kept in captivity over a long period of time, or even just a short period of time, Orca whales face many challenges. Orca whales that are taken out of their natural environment are deprived of their role as the top predator of the sea, are given emotional and physical problems that can lead to violence, and are exposed to simple cruelty.
That trainer turned into one of three to fall to Tilikum’s stress, and frustration. Sealand closed its doors shortly after and put Tilikum and the other two whales up for sale. SeaWorld heard about Tilikum and jumped at the opportunity and bought the 12,000 pound bull for their breeding program. They thought very little of his aggression and killing reputation, putting their own employees at risk.
Keeping animals locked in cages, bored and cramped up in such a small space is an awful sight to show the children. It creates an image in the little minds of children that animals are to be treated like they don’t matter. They say Zoos are a place where children can learn about the wild, exotic animals, but in reality it doesn't teach them anything only that they are meant to be caged up, which is wrong. Also, it is really painful to see the animals bored and lonely, so why should people keep letting them do this to these beautiful creatures. Animal captivity for entertainment should end to let them go to their rightful home.
The story about Tilikum is sad. Why? They captured him when he was 2 years old and was taken away from his mother. Once they had him, they put him in a shed for about a year. After that year they got him out and ready to train. The trainers would do the same thing for the female whales. They would separate their babies from their mothers at the age of 2 years old. Normally the baby whales need to be with their mothers by the age of 10. They need to stop separating the families a let them be with their mothers how they are suppose to. The trainers put the animals in so much stress to put them in shows. These whales have to perform every hour. They get so exhausted that they do not get to have a break and they use the whales to get a lot of money by showing them all the tricks they can do. After having a whale with a record of killing people they don't want to give him up because he is worth a lot. They do not want to let the animals go out in the wild because half of those animals were born at SeaWorld and wouldn’t know how to survive in the wild. Trainers need to let them go and give them a chance to live in the
In November of 1983, SeaWorld set out into the ocean near Iceland to capture an orca for their shows back in the United States. They laid miles of nets, lured the orcas into their trap by using underwater explosives and high-speed boats to engulf them. After capturing a family of orca, they picked which one would draw the biggest crowds at their shows, dosed him in a type of oil that would allow them to transport him for a prolonged period without any water, and gave him the name Tilikum. Tilikum would grow up to be the largest, and most controversial, animal ever to be held in captivity. Tilikum’s life was one filled with sorrow, regret and disdain.
There are 2,400 animal enclosures licensed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, however only 212 are under strict requirements from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA); keep in mind that those numbers only involve the zoos in the United States (Fravel). Zoos should be banned around the world because they do not do what they promise when it comes to conserving the animals, they cause the animals to develop psychological disorders, and they do not have the means and resources to properly care for the animals.
Even though some zoos have an endangered species exhibit with the intention of protecting and rehabilitating animals, many do not do an adequate job of protecting the animals. Zoos have been harmful to the very animals they have sworn to protect. Animals in captivity often suffer from anxiety, boredom and other severe issue related to prolonged confinement. Most animals are unable to thrive in small enclosure with unnatural weather and climates. For example elephants are known to walk as far as 30 miles per day, but the association of Zoos and aquariums only require a space the measures $0 feet by 45 feet, which is about the size of a three car garage, to house these large animals. (peta.org) the drastic difference in the amount of space their allowed ...
Zoos display fascinating animals from all over the world for human entertainment, research, conservation, and education. Many scientists conduct studies on animals in captivity that they may not have been able to in the wild. Zoos educate all the visitors that come; they let people know everything that they know about the animals on display. We do learn a lot from these animals, but not all of the animals in the zoo are behaving like they normally would in the wild. Larger animals, such as elephants and orcas (commonly known as killer whales), have trouble with being confined in such a small area. However, many smaller animals benefit from zoos because they provide protection from predators, natural disasters, and poachers. They also benefit from conservation efforts; the babies being born get all the care they could ever need. Some animal rights activists are concerned that the conservation efforts are limiting the gene pool of the species. They argue that the small number of animals able to breed in captivity limits biodiversity and leads to weaknesses in the species overall. Zoos are wonderful places to study and learn about animals, but we need to improve the living standards for animals that struggle with captivity.
Animals should not be held captive in zoos because it is inhumane and unfair to the animals. There are so many records of terrible things that have happened to animals in zoos over the past few centuries, the go under the radar too often. Too few people even know about these animal care atrocities, and therefore the New York Times decided to bring light upon this situation. The Times did a first-of-its-kind analysis of 390 elephant fatalities at accredited U.S. zoos over the past 50 years (Berens 3). It found that most of the elephants died from injury or disease linked to conditions of their captivity, from chronic foot problems caused by standing on hard surfaces to musculoskeletal disorders from inactivity caused by being penned or chained for days and weeks at a time.
Supporters of zoos argue that they help to conserve endangered species, but in fact they are not very good at this. Even the world famous panda-breeding programme has been very costly and unsuccessful. Also, zoo life does not prepare animals for the challenges of life in the wild. For example, two rare lynxes released into the wild in Colorado died from starvation even though the area was full of hares, which are a lynx’s natural prey.