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Biologists: Killer whales 'neurotic' in captivity
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| February 25, 2010 9
| Elizabeth Landau
Posted on 02/25/2010 7:23:27 PM PST by JoeProBono
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Trainers at SeaWorld are taught to reinforce the whales' good behavior with rewards and to not react at all to bad behavior.
To: JoeProBono
'Tilikum, weighing about 12,000 pounds, has been linked to two other deaths -- he and two other whales were involved in the drowning of a trainer at a Victoria, British Columbia, marine park in 1991. Authorities said in 1999 that a 27-year-old man was the apparent victim of a Tilikum's "horseplay" at SeaWorld.'
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02/25/2010 7:26:47 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/25/2010 7:31:16 PM PST
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1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: JoeProBono
Take them back to wherever they were captured and let them go.
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posted on
02/25/2010 7:31:30 PM PST
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ExTexasRedhead
(Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
To: ExTexasRedhead
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02/25/2010 7:33:39 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: 1010RD
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02/25/2010 7:35:16 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
This is as dumb as Sigfried and Roy's BS. These whales are carnivores.
Circuses are even worse because elephants by nature roam for hundreds of miles. They go crazy in captivity.
Animals want freedom.
Americans want freedom from stinking tyrants like the Dems & RINOs.
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02/25/2010 7:39:30 PM PST
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Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: JoeProBono
Confining such an enormous animal in an aquarium tank leads the animal to display neurotic behavior, experts say. This isn't restricted to whales either. Back when I was in college I read a study done with lab rats where they kept increasing the population density of a colony...as the population went up so did the incidents of homosexuality.
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02/25/2010 7:39:54 PM PST
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highlander_UW
(Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
To: JoeProBono
Look at how small that tank is. These animals need to be in the ocean.
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02/25/2010 7:40:25 PM PST
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Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: highlander_UW
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posted on
02/25/2010 7:42:50 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
It’s all because of global warming.
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posted on
02/25/2010 7:47:24 PM PST
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dr_who
To: JoeProBono
I bought the Sea World 'Believe' DVD when I was down in Orlando this past year. The dead trainer is prominently featured in this DVD. Chilling.
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02/25/2010 7:49:15 PM PST
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Ciexyz
To: JoeProBono
This one says “happy”.
Is this like an Orcaschach test?
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02/25/2010 7:50:11 PM PST
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1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: JoeProBono
Well I for one have seen and heard enough. I’m no PETA or animal rights extremist.
But I don’t think these great and beautiful carnivores need to be doing circus tricks to help pay for a marine amusement park.
These open ocean mammals are smart and this particular whale plays for keeps. Preditors with brains don’t take kindly to being cooped up.. get it!
I do understand that some of these whales could not survive long if released into the wild, so be it, keep it safe for now.
Lets end the Timothy Treadwell (RIP) like communing with these poor wild animals. How many more children will have to watch the slaughter of more trainers as if in some Roman Colosseum..
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02/25/2010 7:53:06 PM PST
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alameda
(alameda)
To: JoeProBono
The woman was doing what she loved. I say, more power to her!
I just heard Jack Hanna say that Sea-World used $60 million dollars last year to provide for and study Killer Whales. I would say they probably received better care than some humans!
Oh, and Jack Hanna slapped down PETA's Ingrid Newkirk (British-born animal rights activist) when she claimed they were swimming in their own urine. Remember, she is the one who willed her skin to be made into purses, her feet into umbrellas, etc. I think we should oblige her.
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02/25/2010 8:01:40 PM PST
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kcvl
To: dr_who
I thought it was Bush’s fault.
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02/25/2010 8:01:56 PM PST
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cajuncow
To: kcvl
I would say they probably received better care than some humans!
I'd say they're perfectly capable of taking care of themselves if they're not confined to tiny aquatic pens in SeaWorld. I don't understand the appeal of seeing large, dangerous predators like killer whales or Sigfrid & Roy's tigers being made to act like harmless performers of stupid tricks until their natural instincts take over and they attack someone.
To: AnotherUnixGeek
being made to act like harmless performers of stupid tricks until their natural instincts take over and they attack someone Sigfrid & Roy's tiger who picked him up because he fell just like it would it's baby. Only his skin wasn't thick and hairy like an animals.
I guess you wouldn't approve of the two dogs that sleep with us every night either.
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02/25/2010 8:36:17 PM PST
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kcvl
To: alameda
A friend of mine on another board summed it up well yesterday when he said “You confine a social, intelligent 6 ton creature to a bathtub for 30 years and you expect it to behave itself 100% of the time?”
And this morning on the radio Imus was going off on keeping them for shows etc - he said “It’s wrong to make them do tricks for the fat stupid tourists and their mouthbreathing obese kids” LOL.
I don’t mind them being kept in captivity if they’re injured and being rehabilitated, but the goal shouldn’t be keeping them in a “bathtub” and making them do tricks for the rest of their lives.
LQ
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02/25/2010 9:15:32 PM PST
by
LizardQueen
(The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
To: kcvl
Sigfrid & Roy's tiger who picked him up because he fell just like it would it's baby.
LOL - yeah, I read that incredibly silly explanation by Roy after the tiger sank its fangs in his throat. Some info: female tigers carry their cubs - males (like the tiger that attacked Roy) have no interaction with cubs, except to kill them. Also, female tigers carefully pick up their fragile cubs by the back of their necks, not by clamping down on their throats. Biting the throat is how tigers kill their prey. The tiger's interaction with Roy was a clear example of a tiger striking down it's prey and dragging it away to seclusion - in the wild, the tiger would have then fed.
I guess you wouldn't approve of the two dogs that sleep with us every night either.
Your two dogs are the end-product of thousands of years of domestication and selective breeding for docility and obedience. They also don't have a fraction of the killing power of a tiger, let alone a killer whale in the water.
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