I don't know why but when I heard about this it really upset me. Maybe I am thinking back to the first time I watched Free Willy and routed Willie on when he jumped over the stone wall into freedom. I don't know. They don't happen frequently, and of course when they do, there is A LOT of publicity. However, I can not imagine that the tanks they live in are good environments for a 12 ton carnivorous animal. I found this in a CNN article:
Fred Felleman, a marine consultant in Seattle, Washington, said keeping the social animals in what amounts to isolation is bound to cause problems.
"The fact is we don't have the facilities to adequately accommodate not only the physical needs, the psychological and social needs of these animals," he told CNN affiliate KIRO-TV.
"We respect lions and wolves and wild dogs as fantastic things, but we don't go run into the Serengeti and try to jump on their back."
It makes sense. As much as this bothers me, I am happy/sad to say that I probably won't stop going to Aquariums and marveling at what I can only see above ground surrounded with glass. Does this make me a hypocrite? Maybe...........
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