This kinda has to do with the incident at sea world last week. IT has happened before and it just seems like these animals like to hurt other animals just for fun. Now im sure that a lot of these unfortunate happenings are provoked by something the trainer did wrong or something. But these animals seem really intelligent and im sure they know what there doing isnt right. Ive even heard of an incident where to orcas held their trainer under water until she drowned. Ok so maybe they arent evil, but they are called killer whales, and it seems like at times these animals like to kill things just for hell of it. Is that really the kind of animal we should work so closely with.
2006-12-07 16:34:21 · 10 answers · asked by p_rob22 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Well, Orcas are called Killer Whales for a reason. They don't belong in theme parks to be trained like pets to do tricks. These animals belong in the wild. They may follow and do tricks at one time, and may suddenly refuse or attack their trainers the next. You can't really blame them, though. They never wanted to be captured and confined in the first place.
2006-12-07 16:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by TY 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can not generalize to a whole species, as being evil. Assuming for the sake of you argument that evil was possible among Orcas, how would we tell the evil from the good? Would those concepts have the same meaning for Orcas, as it would for us? Perhaps they need to be studied in the wild, not a Sea World setting. How would you like being in a little tank, when you could have the whole ocean as home?
2006-12-07 17:22:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they're not evil.
There are no documented cases of wild killer whales ever attacking a human being. If it happens in captivity, I believe it's because they are under great stress. How can we take an animal from its natural life and expect it to behave naturally?
2006-12-07 23:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
needless to say the whale isn't warm on being a Sea international slave. some animals thrive in captivity, and others revolt. If it hasn't been too domesticized, it may well be released back in the wild, not killed. Killer whales at the instant are not family individuals, so it won't be positioned down for its movements. base line is: this is a wild animal. What do you assume it to do? Animals at the instant are not totally rational beings like human beings; they run on evolutionary instincts and a few discovered/conditioned behaviors. If the instincts take over, that's never the fault of the animal. comparable manage Siegfried & Roy and their tiger--this is a tiger and a ferocious carnivore. What do you think of its organic tendencies are? not leaping via flaming hoops and dancing with adult men in tights. for my area, in simple terms wild animals that isn't be able to make it in the wild by way of a genetic deficiency or environmental probability could be saved in captivity. they might not make it in the wild, and so that is sturdy for the animal and the animal can coach and wow human beings. yet a wonderfully healthful animal used to roaming for miles and miles of ocean/savannah/wooded area/jungle should not be restricted to a tiny atmosphere...that is like being grounded to your room your finished existence.
2016-12-13 04:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Killer whales treat their own kind with great tenderness and compassion. Unlike say crocodiles that eat their own kind. Killer whales do sometimes kill animals to hone their hunting prowess, but the killer whale views its prey the way human beings view cattle, pigs, and chickens so you cannot deduce that this makes them evil. They can be ruthless to the animals they eat.
For tigers, by way of analogy, it would seem to a deer, buffalo, or boar that these are vicious killers; but to us they are just powerful, graceful, and intelligent mammals trying to survive.
2006-12-08 06:20:24 · answer #5 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orcas are wild animals and should stay there, not be put in captivity. Think about being stuck in a tank when you could be in the ocean. I'd not be a happy camper either. But no they are not evil.
2006-12-08 04:24:01 · answer #6 · answered by treehuggingbeastboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orcas are no more "killers" than other animal species - they are referred to as "Killer Whales" because they are the only whale species that hunt for meat that we know of.
Most animals are not evil or good with the exception of mankind. Animals have special instincts that we do not possess and we do not have their instincts in that matter. Animals were NEVER meant to be tamed, captured, placed in circuses, or kept in zoos. As far as I am concerned, the best thing for humans to do is to release all newly captured animals back into the wild, and slowly disband all zoos, aquariums, and circuses when their inhabitants die out.
Humans are the only animals who kill for reasons other than food, territory, mating, protection, and the right to survive in their own environment.
I don't blame the orca in the least, even if it was myself or a loved one who was killed. Any environment that humans have created for these magnificent creatures is woefully inadequate for them - why they have to be free to roam the vast oceans and to be in their pods - their natural environment. As far as I am concerned, they are as enslaved as the Jews were in Egypt and the Africans were in America and should NEVER have been in captivity.
I do believe in research, in the pursuit in knowledge of our fellow animals, however, it should be conducted in their own environment, not ours.
They are not meant to be trained to be like us, performing tricks to amuse us - regardless of their intelligence. Hence, the enormity of animal attacks on their captors. Then we kill them when they act upon their instinct and try to run away, or turn on their captors.
Sometimes trainers and owners forget that these are WILD animals and they operate on an entire platform regardless of their training, fostering, or "domestication". Even cats and dogs turn on their owners from time to time - no matter what - they are still animals.
We humans are supposed to be the keepers of the planet, are supposed to be more intelligent than the rest of our animal species - sometimes I do wonder about that.
2006-12-07 17:35:47 · answer #7 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
eventhough they are called killer whales, they are actually harmless to humans. sure they will attack if they are provoked but then won't we be mad if we are provoked?. they do kill sea lions and fish but that is wat they eat and hey they have to eat in order to survive. and sometimes they get mad when they are taken away from their natural habitat.
2006-12-07 22:11:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be silly; animals can't be evil or good.
And the case where the females dolphins drowned the trainer was because they were jealous; she was having sex with the male dolphins after hours.
2006-12-07 16:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
no they are just wild animals and wild animals are still wild no matter how much you train them
2006-12-08 14:13:36 · answer #10 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋