2. Overview
Negatives
• Environment
• Family Unit
• Depression
Positives
• Public Service
• Saving lives
• Science
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The lives of dolphins in the wild vs. the lives of dolphins in captivity
3. Environment
• Traveling oceans a small
cement room
• Cages at night and day
• Removal from natural
environment
• Weaken their chance of
survival in wild
• Showing ego not eco system
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An example of the small cages at Sea World
4. Family unit
• Social creatures
• Stay with family
• Travel in pods
• Taken when young
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Dolphins and their pods
5. Depression
• Visible sign:
Drooped dorsal fin
• Passing in circles
• Violent outbreaks
• Sea World attack
• Why do these
things happen?
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The difference between a natural
dorsal fin and a depressed orca’s fin
6. Public Service
• Entertainment that brings families together
• Education
• Public service and money
• Tourists
• Makes people more proactive in sea life
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Children at
Sea World
being able to
experience sea
life up-close
7. Saving Lives
• Saving extinction through controlled reproduction
• Saving hurt animals
• However shorter life span
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Clearwater Marine
Aquarium takes in a
dolphin without a tale
and creates a new one
so she can swim.
8. Science
• Study and observe
• However not natural
• Release of scientific info
• Performers not marine biologists
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A Sea World trainer and the orca
during their show
9.
10. Works Cited
• Blackfish. Dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Manny O Productions,
2013. DVD.
• WDC. "The Fate of Captive Orcas." WDC, Whale and Dolphin
Conservation. WDC, 12 July 2012. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
• "Killer Whales (Orcas), Killer Whale Pictures, Killer Whale
Facts - National Geographic." National Geographic. National
Geographic, 2015. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.
• Neiwert, David. "Killer Whales In Captivity." Crooksandliars.
N.p., 26 Feb. 2010. Web. 8 Mar. 2015.
• PETA. "10 Things You Didn't Know about Sea World."
Seaworldofhurt. PETA, 2015. Web. 9 Mar. 2015.
• RICH COAST DIVING. "What IS so Bad about Sea World?"
Project AWARE. N.p., 12 Aug. 2013. Web. 09 Mar. 2015.