Animal Captivity In Captivity

There are many complications that go along with marine animal captivity alone with health issues, It’s not healthy for an animal to be kept in a small space for the rest of their lives whether it’s for being researched or entertainment. There are a plethora amount of things that aren’t right with this, its basically taking a human away from their child young make them live in a spall space for their whole and entertain people, and by doing this also making their life span shorter. Many articles on this topic are against the animal captivity and believe it’s not something that should be done. In a documentary it is stated that some trainers don’t know exactly how to handle an animal as big as a whale or they may not have something right in the water, and that causes things such as health problems like dying earlier than then they should. Or having teeth problems and having to do treatment just because they are in captivity.

This captivity isn’t something that has just happened recently it’s been going on for decades now. In a documentary it traces the lifespan of one whale and goes back to its early childhood when it was first captured. The only reason they go back and look at the history of this one whale is because it has killed people in the past and recently, they wanted to figure out why it is so violent. This history of this is people would capture the animals and they didn’t know how to treat them right, and sometimes they would die right away. Back in the day they used to be very aggressive with the animals and how they treated them, also taking them away from their mother, which can cause an animal to go into depression. This issue plays a role in a political area by how a major captivity business is Sea World. They use...

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...The people on the outside who don’t work there think it should be closed and there should not be animals used for entertainment. Then there is people who go to the amusement park who have no idea how the animals are treated and don’t know anything about the attacks the whales have one the trainers. Because of the last trainer that died at Sea World they made a rule that the trainers aren’t aloud to get into the water with the animals anymore.

Conclusion

Of the different perspectives on this topic its is stated that we understand why this happening for a good cause but then we don’t understand why its happening for the bad reasons. Animal Captivity is probably going to be around for a long time probably until a law is passed. Not only is their just captivity but also people still go out and kill whales and dolphins in other countries for almost no reason at all.