By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. on April 29, 2015 in Animal Emotions
A new study shows captive killer whales don’t live as long as wild relatives. The researchers show that “62 to 81 percent of wild female killer whales live at least 15 years. In contrast, only 27 percent of the now-dead females in the captive study survived that long. Roughly half of the still-living captive female whales are at least 15 years old.”
Exposing the Big Game 
I wish the animal rights groups could get together and develop an ad that counters the one from SeaWorld is running. SeaWorld assure us the whales in captivity/entertainment live as long as they do in the wild. They also assure us how much they LOVE their whales. Get me an emesis basin!
These ads have about as much credibility as BP’s. People ought to feel their intelligence is being insulted.