part 347 dimensions of sight and sound

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How was your end-of-December-into-January time, meme? Did you make any New Year's resolutions? Or light a candle in your window in the hopes that Himaruya would update again instead of leaving us behind like an 19th century light house keeper's wife whose husband has gone off to sea? ... Did you?

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[(Anonymous)]

I confess, I have mixed feelings about this whole debacle.

Because on the one hand, SeaWorld clearly has an incredibly lousy track record of keeping their animals happy and healthy (and the world in general has been crappy about taking care of orcas in captivity; there's been almost no attempt that I can see to mimic normal family structures).

But on the other hand, there are quite a few actual species that wouldn't exist today if not for zoos, and there are some really good zoos that make a huge effort to make the enclosures mimic the natural habitat as closely as possible.

I guess I really feel that more zoos should be calling SeaWorld out on this...

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's important to make the distinction between animals that can have fulfilling, even happy lives in captivity and those that cannot.

Clearly, at this point, with 125 or so dead captive whales (out of about 160 either taken captive or born in captivity since the 1960s--and about 75% of them dying before they were 20 years old, when in the wild orcas typically live 30-50 for males and all the way up to 80-90 for females) and countless evidence of the harmful physical and psychological effects this is having on the animals, it is obvious that orcas cannot and should not be living in captivity. Oh and I'm not saying that you are saying they should be, just went on a tangent!)

Some zoos do wonderful work. And others.... well. And... still others are mixed bags. Like the Detroit Zoo, which has some wonderful enclosures--aaaand then they throw in huge bears in a tiny area of grass with some stone and call it a day.

I'm not surprised zoos aren't calling them out, just like I'm not surprised the documentary didn't get nominated. It can be very risky to openly criticize a huge, billion dollar corporation.