Imagine spending your whole life malnourished, sick and in captivity just so that people can see a performance with tricks and splashing. Captivity has harmed marine animals for centuries and has become a reoccurring problem in places like SeaWorld. There is not an understanding of why people enjoy seeing abused animals held in captivity for their enjoyment. Captivity and animal abuse has been an evolving issue for years and in the marine world captivity is the most dangerous thing for healthy marine mammals. SeaWorld’s inhumane manner of care must cease and instead should refocus their work and efforts on confined animal rehabilitation through exceptional nutrition and investigative research.
SeaWorld hires hunters to obtain large aquatic mammals, like Orcas in inhumane ways, causing trauma and health problems in the mammals. Biologists Michael Moore and Julie Van Der Hoop wrote in the Massachusetts Journal of Biology that, marine mammals in the wild have been at a very high risk for fishery bycatch, which is throwing large nets meant to catch small fish which often catch large marine mammals instead (Moore…show more content… Crance, Bowles, and Graver biologists who expressed in the Company of Biologist Journal that, killer whales have a more advanced neurological system than humans, which causes them to recognize their captivity. This thought to lead to depression in the species (Crance 1229). The toll that captivity takes on the emotional status of the whales is alarming. Due to the whale's ability to grasp the concept of captivity, it shows that SeaWorld has an inhumane way of dealing with the animals. If investigative research was done on the whales, before captivity more scientists would have known of the depression the whales were going to face during their lifespan in
