Marine Parks

Hi guys!!
It's nearly summer holidays at my school.
I hope you all heve fun on your holidays but plz don't make them cruel. There are manny bad things happening to animals but let's talk about marine parks.

Imagine being stuck in your bathtub for your whole life that is exactly how orcas and dolphins feel in marine parks. Wild water mammals should swim in the sea not dance and jump for audince  or swim with tourists. I know there is something like dolphin therapy but you could use dolphins instead. The animals are forced to do the things in fear here are some facts:    
  

1. Killer whales, or orcas, are members of the dolphin family. In the ocean, orcas and dolphins stay with their families, or “pods,” for their entire lives and communicate with each other in a “dialect” specific to their family pod. Imagine, then, the trauma inflicted on these highly social animals when they are ripped from their families and put in the strange artificial world of a marine park.                                                  
2.   In nature, orcas and dolphins enjoy the ability to move freely. Their streamlined bodies and smooth skin enable them to gain fast speed, and they are always on the move, swimming up to 100 miles a day. They spend only 10-20 percent of their time on the water’s surface and can hold their breath for as long as 30 minutes, diving to depths of more than 1,640 feet.
   In captivity, orcas and dolphins are restricted by their tank or enclosure, which can measure a mere 24 feet by 24 feet wide and six feet deep. They can only swim a few feet before a wall or a fence stops them. Captive orcas and dolphins spend more than half of their time swimming in small circles or simply lying motionless on the surface of the water. Experts believe that this may account for the collapsed dorsal fins seen on the majority of captive orcas.
   Captivity’s Tragic Consequences
   
   Captivity is a death sentence for orcas and dolphins and more than 3,850 marine mammals have died in captivity in the last 30 years. In the wild, dolphins can live to be 25 to 50 years old. Male orcas live between 50 and 60 years, females between 80 and 90 years. Orcas rarely survive more than 10 years in captivity. Common causes of death include, capture shock, pneumonia, chlorine poisoning, starvation, stress, drowning, and heat. To the marine park industry, these facts are accepted as routine operating expenses. 

There was once a story of an orca killing a man
   Tilikum was just 2 years old when he was taken from the ocean in 1983. Ever since then, he's been kept in cramped tanks, where he gets very little exercise and is forced to learn circus-style tricks for human entertainment. Former trainers say that withholding food and isolating animals who refuse to perform are two common training methods.

We think that Tilikum's aggressive behavior toward his trainers is proof of his unhappiness. Captive animals such as Tilikum not only take out their frustration on humans but also on themselves. A marine mammal behavioral biologist in Seattle says that "dolphins in captivity can exhibit self-inflicted trauma" and that some drift at the surface of the water and chew on concrete until they've destroyed their teeth. Others have reportedly taken their own lives by hitting their heads against the sides of pools or by not coming up for air.


Plz don't go!!!
thanks