Captive Orca News

@Vogelcommando: I would say: Yes, just plans. Although adjected to (or even part of) the sea, such exhibits costs a lot of money. Who will finance it? Peta (okay guys, I can hear you laughing).

By the way: According to the graphics, the Sea Pens doesn't seem to be that much bigger then some exhibits at SeaWorld. That's the problem when (paying) visitors want to see animals thru glas tubes and not only salt water...
 
Never mind these seapens won't be filtered, so all manner of bacteria and sewage (and yes, the drug resistant ones are in the ocean) can come through at any time and stay as long as it wants.
 

Information and photos about the Chimelong orcas are starting to pop up. There are nine orcas, captured from the wild in Russia. Five males, four females. They currently live at some kind of "breeding base".
 
TheMightyOrca said:

Information and photos about the Chimelong orcas are starting to pop up. There are nine orcas, captured from the wild in Russia. Five males, four females. They currently live at some kind of "breeding base".
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Some additional info here. The facility these 9 are at is simply a holding facility (for them) while their actual exhibit gets constructed at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom (named in the article as Yangtze Ocean Kingdom). Their bull is rather large. Supposedly he's currently at 6.5 meters and is not at all fully grown. (Tilikum was 6.9 meters) The oldest is only 13.

中国首个“虎鲸繁育基地”在珠海长隆正式启用_南方快报_南方网
 
vogelcommando said:
Toothaches misery :( :

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-killer-toothaches-misery-captive-orca.html
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A killer whale of a tale: when peer review sometimes fail - Loro Parque Tenerife
Loro Parque response^

It's worth noting that the people responsible for this "study" are by far the least objective people on this subject. Jett and Ventre themselves made a study previously and made the claim that orcas live substantially shorter lives in that study. To keep things short, their study included stillbirths, miscarriages, and neonate mortality, things that no survey of wild orca lifespans could possibly include. Ingrid Visser also once tried to claim a 3 year old orca was an infant orca who was too depressed to feed. So keeping all these things in mind, this study,and their claims about toothaches, is highly suspicious at its best.
 
Shellheart said:
A killer whale of a tale: when peer review sometimes fail - Loro Parque Tenerife
Loro Parque response^

It's worth noting that the people responsible for this "study" are by far the least objective people on this subject. Jett and Ventre themselves made a study previously and made the claim that orcas live substantially shorter lives in that study. To keep things short, their study included stillbirths, miscarriages, and neonate mortality, things that no survey of wild orca lifespans could possibly include. Ingrid Visser also once tried to claim a 3 year old orca was an infant orca who was too depressed to feed. So keeping all these things in mind, this study,and their claims about toothaches, is highly suspicious at its best.
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Let's be honest here - LoroParque, like Sea World, is hardly an objective party in this case. I agree that there are perhaps some issues with the original article, but I'd love to see a truly objective study (recognizing, of course, that such a thing is inherently impossible, but I find the assertions of Loro Parque have no more "objectivity" than studies done by noted anti-captivity activists). The problem with much of the research carried out on captive orcas (including, as I most clearly recall, a longevity study cited by many proponents of keeping orcas in captivity) is necessarily carried out by Sea World or parties beholden to Sea World.
 
Here's a really interesting video that was put out on Loro Parque's facebook page about their killer whales. It talks about the different types of killer whales based on their ecotypes and a little about the care that they provide for their killer whales.

 
TheAmurTiger said:
SeaWorld Orlando has announced that Kayla died this morning.
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Very sad.... :(:( She was only 30 years old and such a character. This leaves Orlando with only 5 killer whales..... Devastating considering they had nine, nine years ago:(.
 
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