Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Sons and Daughter etc.... Are all being seperated for greed.
2 days ago in Taiji from my understanding over 100 dolphins were chased into the cove. The next day trainers (mostly women) came, and started picking out dolphins so that they could live a miserable life in captivity. I don't get it, do these women not have children. I don't understand how they could seperate a huge family and not feel shame at all. Each dolphin can be sold for roughly 300,000. These trainers took 36 and 1 baby so thats 11,100,000. I am sickened, saddened and most of all SOOOO Angry. A few died dew to stress, a few were let go and there are still over 100 in the cove awaiting there fate in the cove.
It is VERY important that we do not support these theme parks and swim with dolphin programs. These programs are exactly what keeps these fisherman kidknapping and killing.
FACTS ABOUT DOLPHINS IN CAPTIVITY:
53% of those dolphins who survive the violent capture die within 90 days.
The average life span of a dolphin in the wild is 45 years; yet half of all captured dolphins die within their first two years of captivity. The survivors last an average of only 5 years in captivity.
Every seven years, half of all dolphins in captivity die from capture shock, pneumonia, intestinal disease, ulcers, chlorine poisoning, and other stress-related illnesses. To the captive dolphin industry, these facts are accepted as routine operating expenses.
In many tanks the water is full of chemicals as well as bacteria, causing many health problems in dolphins including blindness.
When a baby dolphin is born in captivity, the news is usually kept secret until the calf shows signs of survival. Although marine mammals do breed in captivity, the birth rate is not nearly as successful as the one in the wild, with high infant mortality rates.
Wild dolphins can swim 40 to 100 miles per day - in pools they go around in circles.
Many marine parks subject their mammals to hunger so they will perform for their food. Jumping through hoops, tailwalking and playing ball are trained behaviors that do not occur in the wild.
Confined animals who abuse themselves (banging their heads against the walls) are creating stimuli which their environment cannot supply. Dolphins in captivity tend to develop stereotypical behaviors (swimming in a repetitive circle pattern, with eyes closed and in silence) because of boredom and confinement. This is equivalent to the swaying and pacing of primates, lions, tigers and bears confined in cages.
Dolphins are predators of fish and spend up to half of their time in the wild hunting for food. Supplying dead fish results in less exercise and lack of mental stimulation, thus causing boredom.
When trapped together, males often become agitated and domineering. This creates pecking orders (unknown in the wild) and unprovoked attacks on each other and the trainers. In the ocean, although fights are not unknown, the wild dolphins have a chance to escape.
this is so horrible. They have to realize the reasons why these dolphins are so unhappy in captivity and they just keep doing it! UGH!!! They are dying from broken hearts, thats the worst of it all!
ReplyDeleteCharles Darwin, in fact, considered "sympathy" to be one of the most important moral virtues — and that it was, indeed, a product of natural selection and a trait beneficial to social animals (including humans). Darwin further argued that the the most "sympathetic" societies would consequently be the most "successful." He also stated that our sympathy should be extended to "all sentient beings":
ReplyDelete"As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. If, indeed, such men are separated from him by great differences in appearance or habits, experience unfortunately shows us how long it is, before we look at them as our fellow-creatures. ... This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. As soon as this virtue is honored and practiced by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually becomes incorporated in public opinion."
- Charles Darwin; The Descent of Man, 1871
A sentient being
ReplyDeleteA being is declared to be sentient if he can physically or psychically suffer.
It is characterized by the possession of a developed nervous system and brain.
The group of sentient beings particularly includes vertebrate species:
mammals (human or not), birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes