Southern Right Whales, underwater off the Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: Brian J. Skerry / National Geographic Stock (Source).
Photography by Gerard Lacz(national geographic)
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that someone said it was a photoshopped picture of a captive orca.
My trip to Clearwater Marine Aquarium, and the condition of the animals there.
An excellent video that should be seen by anyone who thinks that the Clearwater Aquarium take good care of their animals.
At one point Jamie states that Panama the dolphin’s eyes are closed and have been since they arrived. This could be because the chlorine levels in the water are too high. It wouldn’t be the first time Clearwater has had water issues…..
The chlorine level in tanks in 2003 were so high that dolphins couldn’t fully open their eyes and their skin peeled off.
The Aquarium had been unable to find the right chemical balance in its dolphin tanks for more than two years.
Animals suffer burning eyes, inflamed skin and can even die from fluctuating or excessive chemicals.
In 2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found potentially “alarming” pH levels, at Clearwater. About three months later, Sunset Sam, a dolphin kept there from the time he was found stranded in Tampa Bay in 1984, died.
The inspector reviewed the aquarium’s records on the death three weeks later, but noted they were incomplete. There is no indication records were checked again. Two years later, agency officials told the newspaper they could not say if Sunset Sam’s death was related to water quality.
The dolphin, estimated to be 22, had a history of liver problems and suffered a small wound the day before he died when he crashed into a pool gate, according to a necropsy that could not pinpoint the cause of death. The aquarium reported to the Fisheries Service that the cause was “acute-suspect age related.”In a routine inspection in 2003, noted that the aquarium’s testing showed excessive chlorine nine times in the previous 10 months. Dolphins Nicholas and Panama “have been observed showing symptoms that are indicative of excessive chlorine levels and/or otherwise detrimental water quality, such as skin sloughing and squinting,” the inspection report says.
Two months after that, dolphin Spirit, a stranded orphaned calf, died. Spirit, aquarium reports said, had severe pneumonia most likely from a bacterial infection.
During a visit in late February 2004, dolphin Presley hovered at the water’s surface, his eyes fully or partially closed and a white ointment covering irritated skin around his blowhole.What is this bullshit. Those are literally some of the worst shark and turtle enclosures I’ve ever seen in my entire life. There’s no way a facility keeping these animals permanently in bare pools would even be allowed to exist in the UK!
Aquarium tanks here have usually a sand/rocky bottom, with rocks and plants in the tank too. You very rarely find animals in bare tanks, unless it’s for medical reasons or is a hatchling tank.
I have never seen a healthy, adult animal in a bare exhibit before.
Ah, the whale who was killed by freedom.
Ah, the whale who no captive facility was willing to help, therefore leaving it to NGOs and individuals to once again step in and save his life.
That’s right. If I do recall, people actually asked SeaWorld to take Keiko, to help him. They said no.
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LOL, at all the pro caps suddenly claiming that it’s “sooo obvious Morgan is deaf”.
If it’s so obvious why didn’t a single one ever bring it up in any free Morgan arguments in the six months she’s been at Loro Parque?.
haha if LP had invented that she has an…
Something that really struck me is a certain person quoted their friend, and their friend said “When you´re a regular from the park and visit her often you realize that something is wrong with her: Vocalizations too shrill and high, eyes wide open all day (something that is not normal either).”
The only thing that says to me is that Morgan is obviously still very traumatised and I think anyone normal would make shrill cries at being taken from their family and put into a concrete tank where they’re endlessly beaten all day -_-Yeah and if she was really deaf, how did she learn her pod calls? Unless she got deaf after she was
capturedrescued.Everyone has known that Morgans being making “screaming” sounds ever since she was at DH, and that she has been slow to learn tricks.
It’s annoying that pro caps are acting like only they knew this all along because they are “regulars who go to the park”. But anti caps have inside sources too (and not just Youtube videos).
Morgan could be deaf. But all we anti caps are asking for, is suitable Independent experts to confirm the diagnosis. If DH / LP / SW have nothing to hide, why should they object to this?. But you can bet your life that they will go to the courts to fight against that, because they desperately need her for their joke of a breeding program and they want nothing to jeopardize that.
Seaworld San Diego’s pilot whale Sully has died .
EDIT - Via Cetabase - ”the death of Sully has been confirmed through SeaWorld’s Animal Ambassdor, Julie Scardina. The following quote was posted on her Twitter account: “Yes Connor, we are very sad. He had some health issues even after rescue- but he loved his time w/ our other pilot whales!”
RIP Sully :(
skdgsdkngs I swear I’m never going to finish this ;___;
Another albino killer whale spotted. This one is a young male first spotted in 2008 but was seen again recently. They have called him Lemon and here he is with his family.
Photo courtesy of Far Eastern Russian Orca Project.
The only thing I want to know is, if Morgan were really deaf, wouldn’t the Dolfinarium have brought this up during the court cases last year?
They had Morgan for a year and they were teaching her some behaviours, wouldn’t they have realised something was wrong? And if she…
EXACTLY!
This is what I’ve been trying to say!
She was checked over by marine mammal vets from both Europe and the US, and I’m pretty damn sure if any of them thought she had a hearing problem, they would’ve said so straight away, and Loro Parque would’ve jumped on it ASAP. You don’t keep an animal for a year and not realise it’s deaf.
Well with dogs it’s easier to tell that they’re deaf because you can measure their responsiveness to your voice but with cetaceans it’s hard because they live in water and cannot hear our voices (well). They may have just thought that she needed some extra time to learn behaviors or that her confusion while training was due to the fact that she was from the wild but many of them probably would not have had a reason to believe that she was deaf. I do not think it is something that the experts that you mentioned would have tested without probable cause.
Also, do you mind if I ask where you found this? I would love to read the article!
Well, I’m definitely not saying she isn’t deaf, I just found it a bit odd that it took them this long to figure it out, lol.
Also, what article do you mean? Loro Parque released a press statement saying she was deaf, not sure where to find it but there’s this from Orca Coalition:
http://www.orkacoalitie.nl/2012/05/24/orca-coalition-stunned-about-deafness-morgan/
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