Amazing Facts About Seaworld Killer Whales Show! || Orcas: How Captivity Affects Killer Whales –JC

Amazing Facts About Seaworld Killer Whales Show! || Orcas: How Captivity Affects Killer Whales
You wouldn’t want to live in a bathtub for your entire life, right? That’s basically what life is like at SeaWorld for the orcas and other marine animals who are forced to live there and perform “tricks” for noisy crowds. Instead of living freely with their families in the ocean, these intelligent, social animals spend their days swimming in endless circles in tiny tanks. They are denied everything that is natural and important to them.

SeaWorld wants people to think it’s helping animals, but that’s just not true. Here are eight things that are true about SeaWorld:

1. Orcas’ Sunburns Are Covered Up With Black Zinc Oxide

You know how your parents cover you with sunblock before you go out in the sun to make sure you don’t get burned? Well, in the wild, orcas spend 95 percent of their time deep down in the ocean to protect themselves from the sun. Since the orcas at SeaWorld live in shallow pools with chemical-filled water and can’t hide from the sunlight, they get a lot of sunburns.
Workers usually cover up the burns with black zinc oxide, which matches the orcas’ skin. Although zinc oxide is also used as sunblock, it’s usually put on the orcas once they’re already burned so the public can’t see how hurt they are.

2. Some Orcas Were Kidnapped From Their Families

Five of the orcas living at SeaWorld today were stolen from their families in the wild. For example, Tilikum was a whale who was taken from his ocean home when he was only 2 years old. Can you imagine being taken away from your family at that young age?
People stole him because they knew they could sell him to a company like SeaWorld for a lot of money. He’s been trapped in a tank at the park, away from his whole family, for the past 30 years.
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