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| Are the tanks at SeaWorld really big enough for all those orcas? (continued) |
| I want to note I am thrilled that Kassy and her baby are both alive and in good health, for I would hate for them to suffer for the greed of humans. Looking to the pic on your right you'll see the layout of the SWC tanks. (SWC-SeaWorld California/ SWF-SeaWorld FLorida/SWT-SeaWorld Texas) At the moment it holds 9 orcas, soon to be 10. When Takara has her calf, the total will be that two of them are infants, four are adult females, two are adult males, and two are juvineile males. Now look at that picture. Each orca weighs (at adulthood) between 8,000 and 12,000 lbs. Look like enough space to you? |
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| The red arrow is pointing to one of the orcas in the back pool.Imagine 10 of those, 5 or 6 of which are 12,000 lb adult males in that small living space. |
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| And Takara in CA is also pregnant, not to mention that Taima had Tekoa not to long ago, and now Katina AND Kalina are both pregnant and due around December, house in SeaWorld Florida.....and lets not forget little Kayla in SeaWorldTexas who if is NOT impregnanted yet with Ky chasing her around, will surely be soon, or AIed like Kasatka......let's review the whales in SeaWorld shall we? SWC: Kasatka, Takara, Ulises, Corky, Orkid, Splash, Sumar, Keet, AND Kassy's new baby boy. SWF: Katina, Kalina, Tillikum, Taima, Taku, Tuar, Unna, Tekoa.....and Kat's and Kal's unborn babies which are due around this December. And last but not least, the least crowded, SWT: Winnie, Kayla, Kayuquet, Keto...and they recently lost Haida II for unknown reasons this past August, and remember, Kayla will most likely be pregnant soon, if not her, Winnie will, especially since the AIing on Kasatka was sucessful and that Kayuquet's growing up. And with Splash reaching maturity, who knows how long before Orkid is too impregnated with her first calf. |
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| Wild Orcas World |
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| Captive Orcas World |
| Whats the difference? |
| Only one of them has LIMITS. |
| I'd like to add to all this, almost ALL showpools (not including the Miami Seaquarium's, which is only 18 feet deep!) are between 35 and 40 feet deep. In Puget Sound, not even 20 feet from shore, the water is 118 feet...on AVERAGE. It goes to hundreds of thousands of feet as you move into the straight. Yet marine parks settle for 35 feet? Keiko, as part of his release-training, had to be TRAINED to dive like a NATURAL wild orca and dive a couple hundred feet since he was accostomed to a 15 foot deep pool. Even the DEEPST of pools (I believe they are at SWT and MLF) are only 40 feet deep....merely TWICE the length of an average adult orca. Just thought I should point that out. Tanks are sure big enough aren't they? |
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