On January 17th, 4 pods of dolphins were captured by Taiji fishermen. That’s about 250 dolphins including a baby albino. The following day, 25 dolphins were selected to a life of captivity (including the baby albino named Angel by Ric O’Barry) Today January 19th, 15 more dolphins were taken captive and we learn that Angel was taken straight to Taiji Whale Museum. That’s 40 dolphins in two days… The remaining 200 await their fate until tomorrow morning. CNN even covered…
____ Yesterday, Tuesday 10th of December, Marineland (France) finally made an official announcement of a new orca calf. (Let’s remind ourselves that the baby was born on November the 20th). The mother, Wikie, has already given birth to a male orca, Moana, in March 2011, via AI, thanks to Ulises’ sperm (a male orca from the group SeaWorld – where a trainer was recently killed by an orca attack). At first, the staff thought Moana was a female, hence the…
Freeing Willy, good or bad idea?
It’s been a while since I last wrote a post in this blog. A recent publication in Freedom for Whales’ Instagram account prompted me to share it, so here it goes: ” What a lot of people don’t realize about cetacean captivity is that once the show is over, you get to leave. You get to go explore the rest of the oceanarium, you get to leave and decide what you’d like for dinner. You get to go see your…
From the looks of recent photos, Wikie,the youngest female at Marineland France is pregnant-again. Why is this concerning? Her baby, Moana, is merely 2 years old. He still needs almost constant attention from his mother at such a young age, and now that she will soon have another baby, he will not receive all the vital attention he needs. Wikie is 11 years old. She has not reached the age in which wild orca females begin breeding, yet she is…