Animal attractions a place where families come to spend the day with their children, or where people come just, because they are fascinated with animals. While there are many animal attractions there happens to be one that stood out amongst all its competitors. SeaWorld, SeaWorld was different and unique compared to your local zoo or aquarium it seemed to have showed us something a bit more different than your usual looking at a lion or a snake through a cage or glass. SeaWorld showed us how Energetic and loving the animals they had were. SeaWorld seemed to be such an amazing attraction due to the fact that you always were all given a great show. You could see the bond between these trainers and the orcas. The orcas almost always …show more content…
Now this all seemed fine until a documentary called “Blackfish” was released. On July 19th 2013. Blackfish was a documentary that showed us how SeaWorld truly was behind the scenes, they showed us what SeaWorld was really like when there wasn’t a show going on, or when there wasn’t an audience watching. It taught us to truly open our eyes and see that this attraction in reality wasn’t the amazing attraction most though it was. Evidently it showed us SeaWorld flaws a controversial issue has been whether the film “Blackfish” was a fair representation on SeaWorld and its animal …show more content…
In the “Blackfish” documentary there were many casualties shown, most of the time they described it as trainer error, however the true error was actually letting these trainers be in the same tank as the creatures. Literally every single day a trainer and killer whale shared the same tank that trainers’ life was on the line. Many trainers were often injured “Hargrove, who quit SeaWorld in 2012, suffered numerous broken bones and nearly destroyed his sinuses. It was a risk he ran with his eyes open, and one that, in the end, he seems to feel was almost worth it. "I owe those whales," he says in an interview. "They gave me so much in my life and my career." But the whales' physical and emotional well-being, he grew to believe, was incompatible with captivity. Confined to unnatural social groups for the convenience of their owners, bored and restless, forced to perform tricks for food that trainers withheld as punishment, they occasionally slipped, he writes, "into the dark side" (Adler). Now if we observed these animals in their own natural habitat that would be one thing, but brining these orcas into captivity forcing them to do things against their own will and then expecting them to be on cloud nine and not retaliate in anyway, it is sheer ignorance. It is impossible that human could have the same bond with and orca, then an