Imagine you’ve just been born. You were taken away by doctors and given the proper care needed, but instead of giving you back to your mother and family, the doctors hand you off to an organization they know barely anything about. They go through this process all for an insignificant amount of money.

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Seems a little harsh, doesn’t it? In reality such instances take place often with sea life. Fish, killer whales, dolphins, otters, seals and other innocent animals have been ripped from their families and shipped to aquariums or entertainment park for humans. When looking at the animals from the outside, everything seems perfectly fine, but if you take a closer look, you’ll see through the lies told by managers and company owners.

Seaworld has kidnapped five orcas and kept them in tanks no more than 40 feet deep. Orcas can measure anywhere from 16 to 23 feet in size. The lifespan of an orca in the wild is around 50-60 years while orcas in captivity live to be a maximum of nine years old. By keeping these large wild animals in confined spaces, their quality of life and lifespan is thrown away.

When hearing about orca attacks, they are

almost always related to orcas in captivity. Most often these attacks occur at SeaWorld locations. There are little to no recorded orca attacks in the wild, yet there have been many cases of whales attacking SeaWorld trainers. These attacks can be anywhere from being held under water to deaths. There have been at least four recorded fatalities caused by orcas in captivity.

The mental stability of these animals plummets when confined to a small space barely big enough to swim in. Orcas are large, wild sea creatures that are meant to reside in the ocean. How many more deaths will occur before SeaWorld and other corporations like it understand what the word “wild” means?

Orcas are also brutality captured from the wild. A famous SeaWorld whale, Shamu, had her mother harpooned and murdered right in front of her eyes. Shamu was not the only orca to be stolen from her habitat. Tilikum, the famous orca from the movie “Blackfish,” was ripped from his mother and transported to SeaWorld at the age of two. He lived at SeaWorld for 30 years.

Picture living your entire life in a tiny room and not being able to remember your family. Sea animals taken from their natural habitats live that nightmare as reality.