SeaWorld is a business built on the suffering of intelligent, social animals who are denied everything that’s natural and important to them. But what horrible things has the abusement park done, specifically? From tearing animals away from their families to breeding and inbreeding them and imprisoning them in small, barren tanks, we’re breaking it all down:
1. SeaWorld exploited an expectant mother for publicity. Employees posted the sonogram of a pregnant beluga whale on social media for views and “likes” in a shameful attempt to lure new visitors to its park in San Antonio. If her baby survives, he or she will never know anything outside of a concrete prison unless SeaWorld releases all suffering whales into seaside sanctuaries.
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#SeaWorld’s viral sonogram of a pregnant beluga whale is a sad reminder that its animal abuse spans generations.
If her baby survives, they will likely never know life outside a concrete prison.@SeaWorld must stop breeding beluga whales now! https://t.co/gmqSKEaJJ4
— PETA (@peta) January 14, 2021
2. An orca named Shamu performed in the first-ever orca show at SeaWorld in 1965. She’d been abducted from her mother—and during her capture, her mother was shot with a harpoon and killed right in front of her. Shamu died six years later, although SeaWorld continued to use the name for various other orcas who were forced to perform in its shows.
3. In 1978, SeaWorld captured two sharks from the ocean and put them in an enclosure. Within three days, they’d run into a wall, sunk to the bottom of the enclosure, and died. SeaWorld has continued to imprison and kill different species of sharks ever since.
WTF. #SeaWorld now allows guests to pay to swim with sharks in a tiny tank. Here’s why it’s bad: https://t.co/NAt3Neqot2 #BoycottSeaWorldDay pic.twitter.com/4Rf9YiwMTT
— PETA (@peta) July 25, 2017
4. In 1983, 12 dolphins were captured from their home waters in Chile to be put on display at SeaWorld. Half of them died within six months.
5. SeaWorld separated two bonded polar bears—Szenja and Snowflake—after they’d spent 20 years together, leaving Szenja without any other members of her species to interact with. She died two months later—likely with a broken heart.
BREAKING: Szenja, a polar bear at #SeaWorld, has died. PETA believes she died of a broken heart after companion of 20 yrs was shipped away pic.twitter.com/dwr0Vm0vrR
— PETA (@peta) April 19, 2017
6. A dolphin named Ringer was impregnated by her own father, and there’s a good chance that her last calf was inbred as well. (She’s had several babies—and all of them have died.)
#SeaWorld allowed Ringer to become pregnant again, despite her history of inbreeding & failed pregnancies. Her calf’s death is no surprise.
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— PETA (@peta) May 22, 2017
7. In 2011, the company took 10 baby penguins away from their parents in Antarctica and shipped them to SeaWorld in California for “research purposes.”
8. In 2015, SeaWorld shipped 20 penguins via FedEx on a 13-hour journey from California to Michigan, transporting them inside small plastic crates with air holes and forcing them to stand on blocks of ice.
Penguins are not packages! #SeaWorld has shipped penguins in plastic crates via #FedEx. #WorldPenguinDay pic.twitter.com/7JBX66cDQo
— PETA (@peta) April 25, 2016
9. Nanuq, a beluga whale, was abducted from his home waters and family at 6 years old, and he was used for an artificial insemination experiment at SeaWorld. He was removed from the water about 42 times so that workers could collect his sperm. Six of his babies died at birth or shortly after. Nanuq died, too, after his jaw was shattered.
ICYMI: A beluga whale has DIED at #SeaWorld.
See what PETA is doing about it: http://t.co/jvLGN4OwGk #CaptivityKills pic.twitter.com/vYo8pdD5na
— PETA (@peta) February 21, 2015
10. SeaWorld continued buying orcas who were taken from their families. Its orca hunter even hired divers to cut open the stomachs of five orcas, fill them with rocks, and put anchors around their tails in order to sink them to the bottom of the ocean so that their deaths wouldn’t be discovered.
11. Abducted at 1 year old, an orca named Kasatka was imprisoned by SeaWorld in a tank for nearly 40 years—until she died. Workers made her perform up to eight shows a day, transferred her to different locations 14 times within eight years, used her for breeding, and took her babies away.
ICYMI: A third orca has died this year at #SeaWorld. Kasatka suffered from a bacterial infection for 10 years #RIP https://t.co/QvlhYCkCjo pic.twitter.com/42RLRlWUYL
— PETA (@peta) August 20, 2017
12. Kasatka’s mate, Kotar, was killed after a pool gate closed on his head, fracturing his skull.
13. An orca named Corky was abducted from her family and home as a baby, then impregnated over and over again—six times with sperm from her own cousin. Today, she’s locked inside one of SeaWorld’s tiny tanks, swimming in endless circles, despite the hundreds of thousands of people who have called on the company to release her and her long-suffering orca brethren.
14. Corky’s last baby was found dead at the bottom of a tank. Her family is still out there in the wild, but SeaWorld won’t return her to them.
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15. Takara, a 25-year-old orca at SeaWorld, has been artificially inseminated many times, separated from her mother and two of her children, and shuffled from theme park to theme park. She was just starting to build a relationship with her daughter Kyara when the infant died at only 3 months old.
BREAKING: Kyara has died at SeaWorld at just 3 months old. She never got to swim in the ocean. https://t.co/ok0uWExamS #BoycottSeaWorldDay pic.twitter.com/iqnJGqkW2l
— PETA (@peta) July 24, 2017
16. SeaWorld masturbated Tilikum over and over and forcibly impregnated female orcas with his sperm. He’s the biological father of more than half the orcas who’ve been born at SeaWorld. More than half of his children have died.
Tilikum was bred 21 times—& 11 of his offspring died before him. #SeaWorld #RIPTilikum pic.twitter.com/loBWW98RjO
— PETA (@peta) January 6, 2017
17. Tilikum died, too, after 33 miserable years in captivity.
BREAKING: After 33 years in captivity, Tilikum—who was the subject of #Blackfish—is dead. #RIPTilikum pic.twitter.com/Duj9KOEJbo
— PETA (@peta) January 6, 2017
18. In order to keep orcas’ worn and broken teeth from becoming infected, employees drill out the inside of the teeth—often without any anesthetics or painkillers—and then flush them out daily.
#SeaWorld drills holes into pulp cavities of broken or worn teeth to open them to be flushed. #VetVisitsSW pic.twitter.com/DqXKJXXvoh
— PETA (@peta) August 11, 2015
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In addition to all these atrocities committed by SeaWorld, the company continues to subject 21 orcas, more than 100 other dolphins and whales, and many other animals to constant confinement and deprivation.
Speak Up for Animals Imprisoned at SeaWorld
It may be too late for Shamu, Kasatka, Kyara, Tilikum, Szenja, Nanuq, and others, but it’s not too late for SeaWorld to start building seaside sanctuaries for the animals still trapped in its tiny tanks. The decades of torment must end now. SeaWorld must stop breeding dolphins and whales and taking advantage of pregnant mothers for profit.
You can help orcas, bottlenose dolphins, and everyone imprisoned by SeaWorld today. Click the button below to demand the release of animals into seaside sanctuaries.
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