Orcas In Captivity Research Paper

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How would you feel if you were ripped from your family and all you'd ever known and turned into an object for entertainment? You would hate it, too. Everyone would, every single creature alive with the capacity for emotion would suffer, therefore so do orcas, which are also known as killer whales. This name, however, is misleading. In the wild, orcas have been responsible for no human deaths. That's right. There have been exactly zero orca-related deaths in the wild, however there have been four in captivity, and countless incidents of captive orca aggression. We, as a species, blame the orcas for these tragedies, but is it really the orcas at fault? Of course, not a lot! If a human was locked in a box for years, it would not be unlikely for …show more content…
With that in mind, should places like SeaWorld continue to keep live or wild orcas in captivity? The health, both mental and physical, of orcas taken from the wild is massively impacted by being kept in captivity. Orcas are incredible animals; they are intelligent and even have a part of the brain that humans do not, and yes, when it comes to it, they are very powerful. In the wild, that strength is exercised by hunting and swimming long distances day in, day out, but while kept in a tank, the orcas' energy gets spent up, which, as it would any other animal, aggravates them. Is it really that hard to realise how the orcas feel? Why do we find it so difficult to empathise with these amazing creatures? In addition to this, some of the tanks in which the orcas are kept are unsuitable, and the orcas gnaw at the walls, damaging their teeth, leaving them in what must be terrible pain. The constant agony further damages their mental health, leaving them unstable and unpredictable, which should not be allowed to happen, yet it
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