Fucking hell. Just no words... It feels extremely inappropriate, but it's putting a new perspective on the equivalent scene in Avatar 2, where they seems to be more tame than them.
Fucking hell. Just no words...
It feels extremely inappropriate, but it's putting a new perspective on the equivalent scene in Avatar 2, where they seems to be more tame than them.
This is such a travesty. I had been following the announcement that she was going to be moved to the sea and this just... Shattered me. Personhood is not limited to humans - I hope we as a species...
This is such a travesty. I had been following the announcement that she was going to be moved to the sea and this just... Shattered me. Personhood is not limited to humans - I hope we as a species work to think more generously about all the different people around us, humans and other animals.
I'm glad our practices of keeping captive whales and dolphins seems to be on the wane. This may be a minority opinion, but seeing how Keiko only lived to be 27 and never reintegrated with other...
I'm glad our practices of keeping captive whales and dolphins seems to be on the wane.
This may be a minority opinion, but seeing how Keiko only lived to be 27 and never reintegrated with other orcas in the 5 years after his release, part of me feels better about her passing away in the environment she had been in for the last 40+ years, as opposed to the brief confusion and additional isolation of being put in a basically new environment with orcas that either can't, or wont interact.
I know I'm making a few assumptions, but I feel it's similar to someone in their 80s being deported from a country they have lived in for decades, to one they left when they were 7.
This got me thinking...if she was taken at age four, and spent the next 53 years without communicating with another orca, would she even be able to communicate effectively or at all with the other...
Plans were in place for millions of dollars to fund her flight back to her home waters – to live out her days in a sea pen being fed salmon, in communication distance of her kin.
This got me thinking...if she was taken at age four, and spent the next 53 years without communicating with another orca, would she even be able to communicate effectively or at all with the other orcas near the sea pen? Presumably, her vocalizations shifted closer to match the bottle-nose dolphins she performed with.
I vaguely remember reading that orca pods have different accents or different language, to put it in human terms, so she would have a hard time communicating with those orca.
I vaguely remember reading that orca pods have different accents or different language, to put it in human terms, so she would have a hard time communicating with those orca.
Absolute shit stains. I hope they're remembered as such and no more orcas are captured
Fucking hell. Just no words...
It feels extremely inappropriate, but it's putting a new perspective on the equivalent scene in Avatar 2, where they seems to be more tame than them.
This is such a travesty. I had been following the announcement that she was going to be moved to the sea and this just... Shattered me. Personhood is not limited to humans - I hope we as a species work to think more generously about all the different people around us, humans and other animals.
This was excruciating to read. I pray we can just be done with this barbaric practice.
I'm glad our practices of keeping captive whales and dolphins seems to be on the wane.
This may be a minority opinion, but seeing how Keiko only lived to be 27 and never reintegrated with other orcas in the 5 years after his release, part of me feels better about her passing away in the environment she had been in for the last 40+ years, as opposed to the brief confusion and additional isolation of being put in a basically new environment with orcas that either can't, or wont interact.
I know I'm making a few assumptions, but I feel it's similar to someone in their 80s being deported from a country they have lived in for decades, to one they left when they were 7.
This got me thinking...if she was taken at age four, and spent the next 53 years without communicating with another orca, would she even be able to communicate effectively or at all with the other orcas near the sea pen? Presumably, her vocalizations shifted closer to match the bottle-nose dolphins she performed with.
I vaguely remember reading that orca pods have different accents or different language, to put it in human terms, so she would have a hard time communicating with those orca.