Knowing that these whales cannot actually ever be released back into the wild, I actually do not have a problem with this and think it sounds like a good enough idea. And hell just froze over because 919Florida and I actually agreed about something.
What is there to spin when all these accusations and demands of closure are by a bunch of hypocrites? SeaWorld will tell this loonatic who lived with monkeys half her life to fix her own research center before telling others how to run theirs.
Chimps injure anthropology student at Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden
Posted onAugust 21, 2012byanpule
JOHANNESBURG–U.S. anthropology student Andrew Oberle, 26, lost an ear, several fingers and toes and a testicle on June 28, 2012 after entering a restricted enclosure at Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden, apparently to pick up a rock that he believed two chimps named Nikki and Amadeus might hurl at a group of about a dozen visitors. Placed in a medically induced coma due to blood loss, Oberle underwent six hours of surgery five days after the attack.
Wow, nice living quarters!! Puts SeaWorld to shame!
Trauma: Oberle was dragged about a half mile away by the chimps, and paramedics were forced to wait for armed escorts before they could go in and treat him.
Goodall Institute facilites have been involved in previous chimp attacks. Outside magazine writer Elizabeth Royte and Gombe Stream National Park director of chimp research Shadrack Kamenya, writing for Pan Africa News, in late 2002 described a May 2002 incident in which a chimp named Frodo accosted the wife and 16-year-old niece of Gombe park attendant Moshi Sadique. The niece was carrying Sadique’s 14-month-old daughter. Frodo tore the child away, beat her to death against a tree, disemboweled her, and was eating her brain by the time guards arrived. Similar incidents reportedly occurred at Gombe in 1984, 1987, and in the 1950s.
Beautiful!! You two-faced radicals condone this yet chastize SeaWorld's facilities?
In 2003 two Goodall Institute chimps escaped from quarantine at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. One of them “bit off the fingers and toes of his keeper,” according to Gerald Tenywa of the New Vision newspaper in Kampala. At large for 12 days, the chimps were eventually shot by a posse of Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers, police, and private security guards.
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Bit late to the party, but this is an extremely important point.
My thought is more about the ocean pens that are often cited as a way of handling that inability to cope with complete release. The only organization with the experience in maintaining the health of these animals in such environments would be SeaWorld (assuming they could prevent the likely ecological destruction wrought by introducing a group of apex predators into a confined ecosystem).
Exactly. Devil is always in the details, not the dreams, no matter how well placed the intentions are.
No, it's simply part of what SeaWorld has been doing for decades.
That may be so, but now they are having to put it out there more than ever before to counteract the public perception of them being a whale penitentiary.
Because people would prefer to obfuscate and lie about one issue.
Obfustcate - verb (used with object), obfuscated, obfuscating. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
And it seems those who hate SeaWorld were able to do the same if you were that unaware of the rescue programs.Obfustcate - verb (used with object), obfuscated, obfuscating. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
Some might say that is what Sea World has been doing for many years. They certainly obfustcated me as a child when they made me think it was natural for whales and dolphins to jump through hoops and live in concrete pools for the pleasure of popcorn chomping tourists.
But thanks for the word of the day.
Has Sea World been doing press releases about all this stuff for all the years they have been doing it? I've never seen one before recently. I do not doubt they have been doing the rescue and conservation in the past. I just think they are amping up the press releases now to counteract the negative press about the whales.
Yes, the press releases are old too.
Don't know what you mean about the press releases being old. The one I posted was dated April 29. There are a few other recent positive ones about Sea Lions, etc. But if you just do a search of Sea World on Google in the news category, it's pretty much attacks from all directions.
A ridiculous strawman argument. Any non-domesticated animal in captivity (and some in captivity) can behave unexpectedly. Keep trying to draw the attention away from Sea World.
Yes they have. They just seem more newsworthy now by the media considering all the recent bad publicity.
I went to Seaworld, often, in the late 80s and early 90s, and their conservation/animal rescue efforts were a huge part of the story they told, even back then.
