The stress of living in such an environment causes the animals a number of physical and mental health problems they grind their teeth, they float listlessly, and many have collapsed dorsal fins - an injury that is rarely seen in the wild.Īccording to Naomi Rose - a marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute –, the reason orcas suffer in captivity is “basic biology.” She told National Geographic, “If you have evolved to move great distances to look for food and mates then you are adapted to that type of movement, whether you’re a polar bear or an elephant or an orca.” To match the amount of swimming an orca would do in the wild in one day, they would have to swim around the tank 4,000 times. Various animal rights campaigns have compared the tanks at SeaWorld to living in a bathtub.
In a recent campaign video against the marine park, actor, model, and activist Pamela Anderson said, “we’ve been fighting against SeaWorld for a long time because obviously captivity is not something that anybody’s comfortable in, especially whales that swim 100 miles a day.” She added, “I can’t imagine a wild animal being happy in an enclosed environment.“
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