The animals are held in tanks, large pools, or fenced off sections in the ocean. Though animal shows featuring dolphins and whales attract many people, it is cruel to capture these wild animals to force them to perform for crowds. Places such as sea aquariums or theme parks, like Sea World, promote the captivity of marine animals, when they should be free in their natural habitat in the ocean. Animals held in captivity lose their sense of self reliance and their natural instincts, because food and care is provided for them. It is cruel and wrong of the human population to enslave animals for the sheer purpose of entertainment.
PETA’s campaign SeaWorld of Hurt shares, “In captivity, orcas are unable to hunt and obtain water from their prey, so SeaWorld gives them gelatin, a substance that is not natural for them, in an attempt to keep them hydrated. Tilikum, who weighs 12,000 pounds alone consumes 83 pounds of gelatin every day.” (SeaWorld of Hurt) The SeaWorld Parks are blatantly taking advantage of the helplessness of these mammals, using them as props for education and
Dr Carl Meyer from Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology stated that mass levels of shark culling “runs the risk of ecosystem-level cascade effects where a general lack of sharks results in boom or bust in populations of species further down the food chain”. Furthermore when nets are used to trap sharks, often animals such as dolphins, turtles, whales and dugongs become trapped in them. Turtles are one of the most endangered species as a whole and are just innocent bystanders in this war between humans and sharks. We need to be careful of not affecting other animals in this quest to reduce shark numbers in the name of nothing. Sharks can already be caught legally by commercial and recreational fishers so any cull would be largely
Imagine being taken from your mother at a young age…envision being thrown into a restricted room, no way out and scarcely enough room to move…visualize only being let out to perform preposterous tricks in front of a crowd of people who don’t understand the desolation you are forced to endure behind closed doors. This is what one-hundred and forty-one captive Orcas have had to face, and out of those one-hundred and forty-one Orcas, only sixteen are still alive to date. (WDC) Hm…seems like captivity isn’t the paramount decision when it comes to an Orcas welfare considering that their survival range utterly plummets from thirty to forty years in the wild to only four to twenty-eight years. (WDC) There are some who would argue and say that these captive Orcas wouldn’t be able to survive if released back into the wild…they wouldn’t know how to sustain their life, and would possibly die without ever making it anywhere. Orcas, in captivity, are likely to suffer multiple health problems, not only from disease, but from other Orcas whom they share their tanks with.
By making the parents aware of the origins and the living conditions of the great orcas, figuring out the reasons why the death of the lovable trainers occurred is the movie’s main purpose. The documentary Blackfish was filmed then on January 19, 2013, then picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN for a broader release. The structure of the film helps meet its purpose by giving us a keen view of how life was as an orca with compilations of live clips of the whale’s day-to-day activities as well as exchanged conversations and emotional interviews of the former trainers. Gabriela Cowperwaite was absolutely rhetorically effective by using all three elements of rhetoric appeals. She succeeded in getting me to think analytically as well as inversely about orcas and going to SeaWorld in general.
A passing by ship sees the smoke and the boys are finally rescued. Now, in the movie Madagascar, Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are put on a boat to be shipped to Africa. When Marty and Alex start to argue, they all fall off of the boat and wash up onto an island. They search the island and come across a lot of lemurs. The lemurs feed them only once, which is not satisfying to Alex at all!
• By zoo I think you mean animal prison. Besides robbing them of freedom: disease, illness, mistreatment by handler’s visitors and other animals, injury, psychological distress, injury to visitors, and the worst of all death of the animals. Good zoos are fine, but there are some zoos out there which most people don't even know exist which are illegal and the species of animals kept are not well looked after. • While I agree to a great extent to both of the previous statements I would also have to say that the one thing about zoos that is good is that there are countless people in the world that do not have the means or opportunity to see wild animals in their natural habitat and a zoo is the only way they will ever have the chance to do so. It is sad though the way some animals are treated in zoos; I personally think the board of directors of a zoo should be personally held accountable for the well fare of the animals in their keeping.
The items you will need now include a filter, a heater and a light housing. Everything involved in aquariums is crucial, but heaters are especially, because fish are very sensitive to temperature changes. My first tank did not have a heater with a high enough wattage and my fish did not survive the lack of heat. The last thing you need to consider is water and how pure the water in your area is. Fish are very sensitive to chlorine and other impurities in tap water.
For this reason fresh water fish require very efficient kidneys to remove all of the extra water, and methods of maintaining and collecting the salt lost through urination. Random fact: Some fresh water fish are said to never drink and be constantly peeing... In contrast salt water fish have the opposite problem. Their cells tend to be less salty than the environment in which they live, so the water is trying to escape. As salt water fish do not have access to fresh water to replace the water they are losing (due to osmosis), they have to constantly be drinking salty water in order to stay hydrated.
What is more, zoos are like prisons for animals as they live in small cages and do not get necessary food. In addition, animals become very aggressive and unpredictable as they get older and often attack zoo keepers and other people. However, most people think that zoos help endangered species survive. But this is not true because most rare animals are extremely difficult to breed in captivity. Besides, in zoos, it is almost impossible to meet the animals’ natural needs.