The renowned theme park and entertainment company “SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment” with its headquarters in Orlando, Florida has found itself at the center of a storm of controversy.
The majority of the disputes about SeaWorld’s treatment of marine animals have been ongoing for many years. A comprehensive analysis of the “SeaWorld controversy” is provided in this article.
What is the Controversy Related to SeaWorld?
SeaWorld makes money by letting smart, social animals suffer by taking away everything that is normal and important to them. SeaWorld used a pregnant mother to get attention.
The employees shamefully shared the image of a pregnant beluga whale on social media to get more views and “likes” in an effort to get more people to visit the park in San Antonio. You can see pregnant beluga pictures in a tweet provided below:
#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
Shamu was the orca in SeaWorld’s first-ever orca show which took place in 1965. Her mother was shot with a harpoon while she was being captured and killed right in front of her children. Six years after Shamu’s death, SeaWorld kept using the name for other orcas that they forced to act in their shows.
After this incident, two sharks were taken from the water and put in an enclosure by SeaWorld in 1978. Within three days, they hit a wall, fell to the bottom of the pen and died. Since then, SeaWorld has kept locking up and killing different kinds of sharks.
It was 1983 when 12 dolphins were taken from their natural habitat in Chile to be shown at SeaWorld. In six months, half of them had died.
After 20 years of being together, SeaWorld split up Szenja and Snowflake, two polar bears who were very close. This left Szenja without any other bears of her species to connect with.
She died after two months, most likely from a broken heart. You can see the polar bear in a tweet we provided below:
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
The father of a dolphin named Ringer got her pregnant and it’s likely that her last calf was also born to her father. She has had many kids, but they have all died and the below tweet confirmed it.
#SeaWorld allowed Ringer to become pregnant again, despite her history of inbreeding & failed pregnancies. Her calf’s death is no surprise.
— PETA (@peta) May 22, 2017
The company took 10 baby penguins from their parents in Antarctica in 2011 and sent them to SeaWorld in California for research purposes.
Twenty penguins from SeaWorld were sent by FedEx from California to Michigan in 2015. They were put in small plastic crates with holes in them so they could breathe and were made to stand on blocks of ice the whole time.
Penguins are not packages! #SeaWorld has shipped penguins in plastic crates via #FedEx. #WorldPenguinDay pic.twitter.com/7JBX66cDQo
— PETA (@peta) April 25, 2016
Bear whale Nanuq was taken from his family and home waters when he was 6 years old and used at SeaWorld for an experiment on artificial insemination. He was taken out of the water 42 times so that workers could get his sp_rm.
Six of his kids died soon after birth or at birth. Nanuq also died because his jaw was broken. You can see the whale in a tweet we shared below:
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
SeaWorld kept buying orcas that had been taken from their families. Five orcas were killed and their hunter even paid divers to cut open their stomachs, fill them with rocks and tie anchors around their tails so that their deaths would not be found.
An orca called Kasatka was taken by SeaWorld when she was one year old and kept in a tank for almost 40 years until she died.
People who worked for them made her do up to eight shows a day, moved her 14 times in eight years, used her to have kids and then took her babies away. You can see Kasatka in a tweet we provided below:
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
Like these, there are more animals that were used by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment to get attention.
You can also check out our below post related to whales:
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