Blackfish

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  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    If you get a chance, check this special out on CNN. Its about the orcas that are kept at seaworld and the the deaths of a few of the trainers.

    I've never been an advocate on animal rights and this show isn't going to change that. But it does show the ridiculous and inhumane way these animals are kept.


    The Cove was another disturbing and eye opening documentary on the abuses and slaughter of sea mammals, in particular dolphins.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    know1 wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    Mammal
    "Blackfish" is what some Native Americans used to call them. Makes sense, given the times.

    It was an extremely vague Seinfeld reference to the episode where George rescues the whale and calls is a fish in the story.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8KUgUqprw
    Ah! The marine biologist :P
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    lukin2006 wrote:
    You know it's just not poaching right? plenty of Canadians pay big money to go hunt legally in Africa ...

    no ... i get that ... their numbers are definitely dwindling ... it's more the point that you would rather live in a cage ... i don't get that at all ... sure, you get fed ... but that's no life for any animal let alone a lion ...
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    lukin2006 wrote:
    with the exception of water critters, if i was a lion, tiger or some other land animal i'd volunteer to go to a zoo, at least people at the zoo are only there to shoot me with CAMERA and aren't looking to mount me on a wall.

    and they would use you for breeding :lol: how bad could it be ? a safe place to live,medical treatment,visiters every day and you'd be fed well without having to chase it down and kill it. :lol:

    Godfather.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Godfather. wrote:
    and they would use you for breeding :lol: how bad could it be ? a safe place to live,medical treatment,visiters every day and you'd be fed well without having to chase it down and kill it. :lol:

    Godfather.

    commit a serious crime and you too could have the life!! ... not sure whether you want to call it "breeding" tho ... :lol:
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    lukin2006 wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    lukin2006 wrote:
    with the exception of water critters, if i was a lion, tiger or some other land animal i'd volunteer to go to a zoo, at least people at the zoo are only there to shoot me with CAMERA and aren't looking to mount me on a wall.

    really!?

    your world can be upwards of 1,000 sq. km. and you can run like 80 km/h and you are ok living in a cage?

    life's definitely rough out there for lions between poaching, habitat destruction and global warming but still ... a cage?

    You know it's just not poaching right? plenty of Canadians pay big money to go hunt legally in Africa ...
    & these safari money havin soulless freaks should be beat senseless by mike tyson & the like then tied to a tree so big cats & whatnot can have a snack

    i'd like to see a tree climbing badass leopard just go to town on a fucker tied high up in a tree under 120 degree sunshine for a good week or so

    the sounds at night would make him cry like a baby as he can't move a single limb .... in comes kitties

    same with sea world assholes
    them bastards should be fed to the fish
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    polaris_x wrote:
    lukin2006 wrote:
    You know it's just not poaching right? plenty of Canadians pay big money to go hunt legally in Africa ...

    no ... i get that ... their numbers are definitely dwindling ... it's more the point that you would rather live in a cage ... i don't get that at all ... sure, you get fed ... but that's no life for any animal let alone a lion ...

    Plus you get the chance to kick the shit out of one of those hunters with their fancy hats, cargo shorts, high socks, and big guns.

    "I say jolly old fellow, it looks like a splendid day to shoot a lion. What say we go after tea, sport?"

    Hunt animals... except instead of coming across them and shooting them with a gun... shoot them with a picture. It took every bit of patience to not admonish my colleagues for oohing and aahing while looking through a photo album of African hunting exploits. How does one get their kicks killing zebras?

    I understand someone killing a deer for the meat they can put in their freezer, but I cannot understand trophy hunting.

    I don't know.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:
    I understand someone killing a deer for the meat they can put in their freezer, but I cannot understand trophy hunting.

    I don't know.
    One is about survival. The other, ego (and money).

    I don't get it either.
  • grooveme
    grooveme Posts: 353
    Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    lukin2006 wrote:
    You know it's just not poaching right? plenty of Canadians pay big money to go hunt legally in Africa ...

    no ... i get that ... their numbers are definitely dwindling ... it's more the point that you would rather live in a cage ... i don't get that at all ... sure, you get fed ... but that's no life for any animal let alone a lion ...

    Plus you get the chance to kick the shit out of one of those hunters with their fancy hats, cargo shorts, high socks, and big guns.

    "I say jolly old fellow, it looks like a splendid day to shoot a lion. What say we go after tea, sport?"

    Hunt animals... except instead of coming across them and shooting them with a gun... shoot them with a picture. It took every bit of patience to not admonish my colleagues for oohing and aahing while looking through a photo album of African hunting exploits. How does one get their kicks killing zebras?

    I understand someone killing a deer for the meat they can put in their freezer, but I cannot understand trophy hunting.

    I don't know.

    Then you won't like this either. Folks like this make me embarrased to be a Texan
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/hunting-club-a ... d=20697931
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    I watched this exploitative piece about the exploitation of these intelligent and emotional sea-dwellers. It's a very sad practice to keep them confined in such small quarters and make them do tricks for food. It would be a shame if human deaths end up being the main reason this practice gets banned.
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    polaris_x wrote:
    Godfather. wrote:
    and they would use you for breeding :lol: how bad could it be ? a safe place to live,medical treatment,visiters every day and you'd be fed well without having to chase it down and kill it. :lol:

    Godfather.

    commit a serious crime and you too could have the life!! ... not sure whether you want to call it "breeding" tho ... :lol:


    :nono: homie don't play that game...... :lol::lol::lol:


    Godfather.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    kenny olav wrote:
    It would be a shame if human deaths end up being the main reason this practice gets banned.
    Excellent (and shameful) point.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,361
    brianlux wrote:
    Rather than zoos (which, I'm somewhat reluctant to admit, are fun to visit) what animals really need is habitat or at the very least sanctuary. There is, for example, the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, a large area of land that provides a natural setting for rescue elephant to live. This is not a place people can go and view wildlife but rather a place for these majestic creatures to live as natural a life as possible.

    As well as increased natural habitat, I'm an advocate for creating corridors to connect wild lands to allow species to migrate properly. Creating these corridors would do much to insure the continuation of many species of wild life.
    The Columbus Zoo, while being at the forefront of animal conservation and having done major renovations over the years at the zoo with better habitat exhibits with Jack at the helm has an open prairie type place called The Wilds here in Ohio. EXpensive as fuck but soemthing I'd like to check out one day.

    Wilds specific link but also includes access to the zoo's page too.

    http://www.thewilds.org/default.aspx
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    mickeyrat wrote:
    The Columbus Zoo, while being at the forefront of animal conservation and having done major renovations over the years at the zoo with better habitat exhibits with Jack at the helm has an open prairie type place called The Wilds here in Ohio. EXpensive as fuck but soemthing I'd like to check out one day.

    Wilds specific link but also includes access to the zoo's page too.

    http://www.thewilds.org/default.aspx
    Jack is one of my heroes. I wish we'd visited the zoo when we were in Columbus a few years back.
  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    polaris_x wrote:
    lukin2006 wrote:
    You know it's just not poaching right? plenty of Canadians pay big money to go hunt legally in Africa ...

    no ... i get that ... their numbers are definitely dwindling ... it's more the point that you would rather live in a cage ... i don't get that at all ... sure, you get fed ... but that's no life for any animal let alone a lion ...

    No I would not want to live in a cage ... fortunately we are not hunted to just be mounted on a wall somewhere. I was being a little sarcastic. I get hunting for substance, I absolutely will never understand spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars to mount the animal, that is just sick.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,361
    hedonist wrote:
    mickeyrat wrote:
    The Columbus Zoo, while being at the forefront of animal conservation and having done major renovations over the years at the zoo with better habitat exhibits with Jack at the helm has an open prairie type place called The Wilds here in Ohio. EXpensive as fuck but soemthing I'd like to check out one day.

    Wilds specific link but also includes access to the zoo's page too.

    http://www.thewilds.org/default.aspx
    Jack is one of my heroes. I wish we'd visited the zoo when we were in Columbus a few years back.
    still working on improvements. Polar bear exhibit in the last couple years. Have rerouted a road(pre-existed) that cut through land the zoo acquired for additional expansion to the north of the current zoo..


    Its come a long way since I was a kid, thats for sure.
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    if i were an orca i would kill every human being i could. this is a fact.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    chadwick wrote:
    if i were an orca i would kill every human being i could. this is a fact.


    then youd be acting against your nature...
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    cincybearcat wrote:
    I need to check this out. I'm a fan of zoos, etc but of course they have to do it the right way.

    there is no right way to keep an orca in captivity. orcas are highly intelligent and family orientated creatures who stay with their mothers their whole lives. when they are captured for profit(which is the only reason i can see)they are taken away from their families, thrown together with other orcas whose dialect they do not speak and kept in what would be for them the equivalent of a bathtub. they are the alpha predator in the sea... they need to hunt, not to have their meals thrown to them and patted on the nose as a reward for being good orcinus boys and girls for amusing the humans. I can not express enough how much hatred I have for the keeping of these magnificent animals in captivity.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,978
    I watched this a week or two ago, and it absolutely broke my heart. I have always been opposed to keeping whales in captivity because it's very clear to me that the facilities aren't even close to adequate for them even in the biggest aquariums/theme parks, but I wasn't aware of all the other horrors that this movie showed us. I am never stepping foot into any place that keeps whales of any kind captive ever again (the Vancouver aquarium keeps belugas in a pathetically small pool, I am sorry to say, but they got rid of the killer whales years ago... and shipped them off to SeaWorld! :cry: ). I am an advocate for animal welfare - I am a donating member of IFAW - and this movie should be required viewing for all children so that they understand the reality of these fuckin' places, and understand the animals better as well so that their generation can do better than ours in this matter. I am disgusted that keeping whales in captivity is even legal this day and age. It's absurdly barbaric. Hopefully this movie will help to make it illegal sooner rather than later.

    :cry: :x :cry: :x :cry:
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