i just watched this video. It is about two mother daughter duos who were always together, until they were separated. Both calves were taken and forced into a net by the other trainers. The reasons they did this were various, mostly if the calf distracted the mother during a show or disrupted the show all together. after they were in the net they were sent on the truck, driven to the airport and shipped to their ‘new home.’ I think that everyone who was a part of this knew what they were doing and thought that the mother would grieve but thought she would get over it. The mother cried and screamed for her baby, frequencies no one had ever heard before, in no way is this acceptable. Nothing stopped them.
Man! That is hard to watch. It hurts my soul. I have years ans tears of NMFS inventories of captive cetaceans, capture permits, and necropcies. It is a sad thing how humans exploit these wonderful animals for so much money after all that the animals give us.
Sea World makes hundreds of millions of dollars each year exploiting marine mammals and it is the animals that pay the price.
Sorry for the typos.
No worries, sorry I didn’t see this comment before I’m still getting used to this blog thing. I agree that the animals pay the price when we have no right to treat them this way. I’m glad someone else notices the real situation here.
What was this video called? I hate hearing things like this happening. It’s so unfair to both whales, really the only purpose was because they feared the mother whale would be distracted. It wasn’t even a fact that she would! Did it happen to mention what happened to the other whales? Has the mother calmed down? Good paragraph, it was well written and I agree with your statement 100%.
The link is the orange words “the lies of sea world.” Thanks for your support and yes, you are entirely correct and as you agree with me, I agree with you.