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STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY
Imprisoned for Life:Marine Mammals in Captivity - P1/2
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The images in the
following program
are very sensitive
and may be as
disturbing to viewers
as they were to us.
However, we have to
show the truth about
cruelty to animals.
The main thing is space,
for such a large species
as Orca to be in such
a small, confined space.
Even the biggest tank
isn’t that big to them.
They can only go
maybe five full strokes
before they hit the wall,
and have to turn.
This is just nothing compared
to the natural world.
Thoughtful viewers,
this is the Stop
Animal Cruelty series
on Supreme Master
Television.
Following a recent
tragic accident in the
United States involving
an Orca whale
at a marine park,
members of the media,
animal advocates,
marine mammal experts
and concerned individuals
around the world
are renewing their call
for the immediate release
of all captive whales
and dolphins.
These highly intelligent,
social beings experience
extreme stress and
suffering when put on
display in small tanks,
with some being forced
to perform in shows for
the public’s amusement.
Members of
the dolphin family,
Orcas are found
in all the Earth’s oceans,
where they love to
socialize with one another.
The young remain with
their mothers for life in
a family group or “pod”
consisting of the mother,
her adult offspring and
those of her daughters.
Another well-known
dolphin species,
the Bottlenose,
is the most likely
of all dolphins to be
imprisoned in aquariums.
For the sake of so-called
“entertainment,”
Bottlenose dolphins and
Orcas are heartlessly
stolen from their families
and robbed
of their freedom.
Dr. Naomi Rose,
an expert on marine
mammal protection from
the US-based animal
welfare organization
Humane Society
International, shares
her thoughts on this
inhumane practice.
For Orcas, the family
bonds are everything;
they live in very
tight family units,
and there is nothing,
nothing whatsoever
about Orcas in captivity
that’s natural.
They take calves away
from their mothers,
they have whales from
different oceans
in the same tank, which
of course never happens
in the wild.
They separate
the breeding males out
from the group because
they don’t want them to
breed indiscriminately,
and the disruption is
completely unnatural
in the wild.
A male calf would stay
with his mother
for his entire life,
and in captivity he is
isolated a lot of the time.
Capture of gentle
Bottlenose and other
dolphins for captivity
in parks may occur
while their brethren
are being violently
massacred by fisherman.
Dr. Lori Marino,
a senior lecturer in the
Neuroscience and
Behavioral Biology Office
at Emory University,
USA has done
extensive research
on Bottlenose dolphin
intelligence and
now discusses these
bloodbaths and how
they are linked
to dolphin shows.
Dolphins,
believe it or not,
are beloved animals but
are also the most abused
animals around the planet.
And they are being
slaughtered in many
different kinds of activities,
including in Denmark,
in the Solomon Islands,
but most particularly
and most infamously
in Taiji, Japan.
In Taiji, Japan annually
from September to March
tens of thousands of
Bottlenose dolphins and
Pilot whales and other
small whales are herded
into the killing cove
and literally
are just slaughtered.
They’re just
hacked to death.
The water turns red
with their blood.
And this kind of activity
was depicted in the movie
“The Cove,”
and I urge anyone who
really wants to know
what’s going on around
the world with dolphins
to see that movie.
It’ll be a real eye opener
because you begin to
realize that we’re doing
some pretty awful things
to these animals.
Now the important point,
too, about the Taiji drives
is that they are
financially underwritten
by the captivity industry.
And that’s something
that people don’t know.
Now in this country (USA),
there’s a moratorium
on taking animals
from the wild, but outside
of the United States,
many countries use
the Taiji drive hunts
to take animals
out of that and
put them into captivity.
So what you will see
in the killing cove is
while animals
are being slaughtered.
Mothers, children and
whole social groups are
literally being slaughtered,
their throats
are being cut,
in the foreground,
there are marine
mammal trainers from
marine parks all over
the world knee-deep
in blood, picking out
the attractive dolphins
and taking them away
from their social group
to be brought into
their marine parks
to entertain you.
Once people
get that connection,
I think they will start
to see the entertainment
shows that marine parks
put on as a very, very
different enterprise than
what they want you to think.
It is absolutely
the most traumatic,
desperate situation
for these animals.
In the movie, "The Cove,"
you’ll actually see
a point where a young calf
jumps out of the water
and hits the rocks.
It is so desperate to get
away from the carnage
that it actually leaves the
ocean and hits the shore.
And it is just the most
unbelievable blood bath
that I’ve ever seen
in my life.
This multi-billion dollar
“dolphin abusement
park industry,” I call it,
is really based on
an illusion.
The dolphin’s smile
is nature’s
greatest deception.
It creates the illusion;
“They actually
like doing this job,
because
they’re always smiling.”
And you go there and
the music is playing,
you have your family
with you and the sun
is out.
And what could be
wrong with this?
And they’re smiling
back at you.
So it’s hard to define
the problem.
It’s not apparent like it
is in the cove.
Unless you are actually
hitting the dolphin
with a baseball bat,
you don’t see the abuse.
When I go there I see it,
because I can read
their body language.
We’ll return after these
brief messages.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
In captivity, all of this
is taken away, (life)
becomes very sterile,
very monotone,
very boring.
And I don’t think
that’s just a minor thing,
I think it is actually
a very major,
stressful thing to have
all of that variety,
all of that texture, and
all of the complexities
taken away from him.
This is the Stop
Animal Cruelty series
on Supreme Master
Television, where we’re
focusing on the trauma
endured by marine
mammals in captivity.
The Orcas are very,
very large.
And they’re probably the
largest species currently
held in captivity.
The large males
are probably larger
than elephants.
Their confinement
and imprisonment
in obscenely small tanks
is simply too much
for them to bear.
Since many countries
have laws banning
the importation
of wild Orcas, some
animal entertainment
companies resort
to hiding Orcas stolen
from the open seas
in even smaller than
normal tanks until they
have a need for them.
…Junior.
Barely an adolescent
at about 12 years of age,
he was alone, lethargic,
his spirit broken.
It’s clear people
are hiding stuff. I mean
they were hiding Junior,
the other poor whale
that was caught when,
in 1989 or something,
he ended up
in Marine Land Ontario,
and for five years was
kept in a warehouse
in a kiddy pool,
and he just died
a couple of months ago.
He was never on any record.
He’s a hidden whale,
he’s another one,
but he’s dead.
In the wild,
Orcas normally spend
a large part of their day
underwater.
In captivity, however,
their tanks are so shallow
that they’re often forced
to spend as much as
50% of their time
on the surface.
This can cause sunburn
and even the collapse
of their massive dorsal
fins because gravity
continuously pulls
on the fins when they’re
not supported by water.
Know that they live
in an extremely varied,
textured,
complex environment.
The ocean is always moving,
the ocean is
always changing.
And in captivity, they’re
living in a concrete
swimming pool.
I mean no matter
how you dress it up,
it’s a concrete
swimming pool.
It never changes.
It’s always the same.
So it’s the same four walls,
and there is nothing new
inside them,
day after day after day.
And so I think that
it must be, as I said,
terribly, terribly
boring for them, and,
boredom is stressful.
It can in fact kill you,
it’s so stressful.
It can lead to depression,
it can lead to
high blood pressure, and
it can lead to all sorts of
physiological changes.
Dolphins also lead
tortured lives and suffer
enormously in tiny pools.
These highly intelligent
animals become so bored
and frustrated in captivity
that they often end up
swimming in endless circles,
with tremendous
psychological and mental
anguish being the result.
In addition,
the water in their tanks
may contain chemicals
such as chlorine,
which can cause
serious health problems.
Constant exposure
to these harsh substances
results in illnesses
such as skin problems,
eye infections
and sometimes
even blindness.
The putrid,
stagnant water in the
tanks may also contribute
to premature death.
On the issue of whether
dolphins, for instance,
can thrive and lead
happy, healthy lives
in marine parks, all of
that evidence points to
the answer being “no.”
When you look at
mortality rates, when you
look at stress levels,
when you look at
what happens to them,
where they come from
when they go into
marine parks and so forth,
you see that this is
no place
for a large social
mammal like a dolphin.
So, there is no way
that a marine park could
ever mimic the natural
lifestyle for a dolphin,
a beluga whale,
an Orca and so forth.
And they don’t belong
in captivity for these reasons.
Dolphins always look like
they are happy.
And that’s because of
the configuration
of their jaw.
So even when you look at
the most horrific
circumstances that
dolphins go through,
which is capture
or slaughter,
they still have that grin
on their face, and that
tells you that
that’s not signaling
that they are happy, it’s
just their facial structure.
So when people go to
marine parks and they
see dolphins jumping
around and doing tricks
and looking like
they are smiling,
that’s a deception.
What can we as
individuals do to end
the appalling treatment
of these kind beings?
The bottom line is
the one thing
that people can do
to help animals who are
held captive in zoos
and aquaria is just stop
patronizing them.
Because every time
you buy a ticket
to a place like this,
you really are
supporting confinement
of these animals,
and in many cases,
particularly outside
the United States,
you are supporting
capture from the wild.
We applaud all those
who are speaking out
on behalf of these
abused animals, who
should be immediately
freed and once again
allowed to roam
and play in the oceans.
Next Tuesday on Part 2
of our program we’ll
have more on the capture
and imprisonment
of our innocent marine
mammal friends.
For more information on
captive marine mammals,
please visit:
Human Society
International
www.HSUS.org/hsi
Save Japan Dolphins
SavetheJapanDolphins.org
Thank you for joining us
on today’s Stop
Animal Cruelty program.
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