Just watched this tonight. And if you're in the mood to kinda be depressed, well is this show for you! That is if you can stand the 8 million commercials. Letting aside the fact that it seems odd that CNN, which I think one would be hard pressed to legitimately call a "news program" anymore is showing this, i think they do a good job of showing why these animals probably shouldn't be kept in small pools and forced to perform.
I can't recall how many attacks they describe, but you'd have to be an idiot to not understand that these mammals display frustration or emotion with their situations. No "psychology" involved here. The one part, where they show the film of the whale after separating it from it's calf, and it's just sitting there motionless in a corner screaming out long range calls for it's baby... Yeah. That was actually kind of tough to watch actually. Let alone the multiple trainers that were maimed or killed because the whale finally was pushed to its' breaking point. Meanwhile there is a whale that killed a trainer, has show aggressive behavior on multiple occasions, but because Sea World makes money the whale is STILL performing??? Bizarre.
Anyway kind of interesting, pretty depressing. I'm not sure if killer whales are endangered or not, but clearly Sea world isn't so much in it for the research and preservation as they are for the dough. So I'd have to say I disagree with that kind of little animal jail cell system.
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