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Injured Whale at Seaworld

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EvianBaby | 14:00 Mon 01st Oct 2012 | Animals & Nature
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The whale suffered a seemingly horrendous injury at Sea World where it's a 'performer'. The reason for it's injury is claimed to hitting it's chin on the pool but someone claims it's because it was fighting whilst in a tank with an incompatible whale.

How is this sort of thing still considered 'entertainment'? I find it truly disgusting that any animal is kept in these places.
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I would never EVER visit these type of places. Whales do not belong in tanks, they should be free in the oceans. Poor creature. I can't look at the link, hope it gets treatment.
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Me neither. I went to London zoo a couple of years ago for the first time since I was a kid and I walked out almost in tears.

Conservation is important in some circumstances but not for the entertainment of people and the animals need realistic living spaces, not tanks and tiny enclosures.
however it happened, it's now receiving treatment - but this sort of thing is not right this day and age. On holiday some of our party went out to sea to see dolphins and Minke whales - that's where they belong. However, animals born in captivity wouldn't survive in the wild, so no point in releasing the ones alread "performing".
Poor poor thing.
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Agree Boxy, but they don't need to keep performing and they should certainly not be kept in tanks with other animals they are likely to fight with.
No difference, IMO, to keeping a tiger in a cage - it's wrong.
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Agree, as per my above post.
These wonderful creatures must be so unhappy, what on earth gives us the right to treat them this way (or any captive animal in unsuitable surroundings) purely for entertainment. Makes me want to weep.

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