“They do not cope with being kept in these tanks. They survive to some degree, but they don’t thrive to any degree,” founder of the Orca Research Trust, Ingrid Visser, told Buzzfeed. “They show stereotypical behaviors that are abnormal, repetitive behaviors like head bobbing, chewing on concrete, and self mutilation by banging the side of their heads on the side of the tank, and there isn’t a single orca living in captivity where you cannot see one of these behaviors, and in many of them you see multiple examples of these behaviors.”
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:18:33 +0000