Yes, Tilikum needs to be retired to a sea pen and Sea World needs to pay for it. He has told us 3 times now, in his own way, that he can not abide his captivity. When will people listen?? When will Sea World listen??? It amazes me that Tilikum has survived this long. I wonder how many humans could endure 30 plus years of captivity and not lash out at their captors? We (humans) would not be able to so why would we expect an orca, ripped away from his home of the sea, to not display his frustration, in the only way he can.
BarbaraHelen - 12 years ago
I am quite appauled to see that some people have voted for SW keeping the Orca.
These animals are being treated terribly, and denying an animal of freedom is among the worst things you could do to them.
I am against SW keeping this Orca In captivity, it is inhumane.
Marcel - 12 years ago
Sea World sucks
Madhumathy Sugavanam - 12 years ago
Sea World takes advantage of whale and dolphin stranding and under the guise of a 'good samaritan', get a 'Golden Whale' to earn them big bucks. The management does not really worry or think about how lonely Orcas or dolphins are in their tanks. They are depriving and forcibly denying freedom to the Cetaceans who are used to close knit social groups. If they truly care, as they keep proclaiming to the public, let them prove it. Let them create an ocean sanctuary, with all the money the Cetaceans have earned for them, instead of a small rehabilitation center and start retiring their oldest performer. Otherwise Sea World can be considered nothing but a 'Glorified Circus' , keeping animals captive and making money off the Cetaceans performing inane tricks, that is so alien to their nature, for gullible public, who believe SW's rhetoric that it is 'educational'. Please also sign this petition - http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-sea-world-to-release-their-orcas-and-dolphins-to-ocean-sanctuaries.
Jackie Kelly - 12 years ago
Absolutely...and Sea World should be required to fund the sea pen and staffing seeing as they took him out of the ocean in the first place!!
Rob Sanders - 14 years ago
This being is not meant to be held captive as a performing pet but mankind will do whatever he seems fit regarless of the outcome towards his fellow beings or the planet.Any animal who was originally wild will at some point revert back to it,s insticts and react accordingly yet we penalize it for doing what is "NATURAL" for it.Mankind is truly the strange animal.Let this being free and not alone as it was intended,
Yes, Tilikum needs to be retired to a sea pen and Sea World needs to pay for it. He has told us 3 times now, in his own way, that he can not abide his captivity. When will people listen?? When will Sea World listen??? It amazes me that Tilikum has survived this long. I wonder how many humans could endure 30 plus years of captivity and not lash out at their captors? We (humans) would not be able to so why would we expect an orca, ripped away from his home of the sea, to not display his frustration, in the only way he can.
I am quite appauled to see that some people have voted for SW keeping the Orca.
These animals are being treated terribly, and denying an animal of freedom is among the worst things you could do to them.
I am against SW keeping this Orca In captivity, it is inhumane.
Sea World sucks
Sea World takes advantage of whale and dolphin stranding and under the guise of a 'good samaritan', get a 'Golden Whale' to earn them big bucks. The management does not really worry or think about how lonely Orcas or dolphins are in their tanks. They are depriving and forcibly denying freedom to the Cetaceans who are used to close knit social groups. If they truly care, as they keep proclaiming to the public, let them prove it. Let them create an ocean sanctuary, with all the money the Cetaceans have earned for them, instead of a small rehabilitation center and start retiring their oldest performer. Otherwise Sea World can be considered nothing but a 'Glorified Circus' , keeping animals captive and making money off the Cetaceans performing inane tricks, that is so alien to their nature, for gullible public, who believe SW's rhetoric that it is 'educational'. Please also sign this petition - http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-sea-world-to-release-their-orcas-and-dolphins-to-ocean-sanctuaries.
Absolutely...and Sea World should be required to fund the sea pen and staffing seeing as they took him out of the ocean in the first place!!
This being is not meant to be held captive as a performing pet but mankind will do whatever he seems fit regarless of the outcome towards his fellow beings or the planet.Any animal who was originally wild will at some point revert back to it,s insticts and react accordingly yet we penalize it for doing what is "NATURAL" for it.Mankind is truly the strange animal.Let this being free and not alone as it was intended,