Biologists: Killer Whales “Neurotic” in Captivity
February 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM Leave a comment
Gosh, I can’t imagine why. Plop them down in a big bathtub and they’re going to be normal and happy? Of course not and we’re idiots if we’re shocked when they aren’t:
An orca can travel easily 100 nautical miles every day, and to put them in a pool where they swim around in circles continually, and kept away from their families, “takes a toll on their brains,” said Jim Borrowman, who has worked with whales for 30 years and runs Stubbs Island Whale Watching on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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