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For those of you who don't know Tilikums full story here's a short description of what Tilikum went through during the beginning of his life, this is based off the movie Blackfish and what I saw in the documentary. This is Tilikums story. What occurred first was that Tilikum was placed in a “marine park” in Canada after his capture with two older female orcas. This “park” was a slot in a marina with boats and the whales were contained by a net. This is where the whales entertained during the day, but at night they were placed in a pitch black holding container that measured 20 feet deep by 28 feet in diameter. Tilikum was picked on and abused by the two female whales. One of the forms of abuse is called raking, where killer whales will scratch other whales with their teeth, drawing blood and creating deep ridge like cuts in the victim’s skin. (One thing this film does talk about several times is the orca on orca abuse that happens all too often in captivity, including raking and even killing.) Tilikum was obviously under stress, as were the other two, in such reprehensible conditions. The first death at the fins of Tilikum took place here. A young girl who was hired to feed the orcas, fell into the tank and was pulled under and drowned by the whales. Two eyewitnesses in Blackfish claim that it was Tilikum who participated in most of the foul play they knew this because of his collapsed dorsal fin. This is just some of what Tilikum has faced during his lifespan.

             

This document illustrates how Killer Whales attack other orcas young calfs in Sea World aquariums. Killer whales are not aggressive under any circumstance, not even to their own kind. Such majestic creatures don't deserve to be treated as a prisoner. If SeaWorld executives were incarcerated within our prison system, they would experience luxurious accommodations compared to the conditions that highly social, intelligent marine animals imprisoned at SeaWorld’s marine parks experience. The conditions under which these orcas live cause them to lash out, chew their own teeth to the nubs, endanger the public, and attack their trainers. SeaWorld can dress the issue up however it desires to, but when investors supporting them want out, it’s a sign that it's over. Don't spend your money, save it and help orcas by never buying a ticket to SeaWorld again.

Did you know? That at least 150 orcas have been taken into captivity from the wild since 1961and 127 of these orcas are now dead. In the wild, male orcas live to an average of 30 years (maximum 50-60 years) and 46 years for females (maximum 80-90 years). At least 163 orcas have died in captivity, not including 30 miscarried or still-born calves. Also, SeaWorld holds 23 orcas in its three parks in the United States and owns (at least) a further four at Loro Parque in Spain (ownership of Adan and Morgan not verified). At least forty-five orcas have died at SeaWorld. One of the most infamous capture incidents saw over 80 whales from the Southern Resident population of orcas in Washington State rounded-up at Penn Cove in 1970. Seven were taken into captivity while as many as five whales died. Today this population is recognised as endangered. Only one captured whale, Lolita, is still alive, held at Miami Seaquarium. The longest surviving orca in captivity is Corky, captured in 1969 from the Northern Resident population that inhabits the waters around Vancouver Island, Canada. She is held at SeaWorld in San Diego. None of her seven offspring in captivity have survived. Her family (known as the A5 pod) continue to thrive in the wild, including Corky's brother, Fife, who you can adopt to help support our work. At least 13 orcas have been taken from the wild into captivity since 2002, most recently in Russia.

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A former employee from Sea Land (A corporation that was similar to Sea World) stated in the film Black Fish:

"When you know the animal and have a relationship with it. You know, that he's not killing, because he's a savage. He's not killing, because he's crazy or because he doesn't know what he's doing. He's killing, because he's frustrated and has aggravation. And when he's... He has no outlet for it."
Killer Whales are affected mentally, people who attend Sea World shows or any show similar to that believe that when a killer whale attacks, they are attacking for no reason. Even an employee realized that these species suffer when held captive for so long.

               

              

Sea World confines orcas, who could swim up to 100 miles a day in the wild, now have to swim in tanks, and to Orcas that's similar to the size of a bathtub. They would need to swim around 1400 times (around the perimeter of the tank) or 3,105 lengths (back and forth at the longest part of the tank) in the park’s largest tank to equal what they’d swim in the wild.