Melmac posted:

sperm whale hole-y grail

redreader posted:

My wife won some kind of competition and is getting a free trip + flight etc to seaworld in san diego. Any tips as to what to do or avoid? I suppose since she got that trip she'll see every single loving thing.

Fabricated posted:

i guess one upside to sea world is that eventually you'll get to see what weird hosed up mutant whales they end up with because despite being the self claimed masters of taking care of and breeding orcas they can't seem to stop them from inbreeding rampantly

Melmac posted:

yeah but they interviewed a doctor who wasn't a doctor of orcas so what's your point

nigga crab pollock posted:

i have family that worked really high up at sea world.

Melmac posted:

Acquire Currency! posted:

Is that a retarded tiger

Melmac posted:

Companion Cube posted:

If I wanted to go interview an orca doctor I wonder where I would find one who:

A. doesn't work in the orca-zoo industry

B. doesn't mind getting blacklisted by the orca-zoo industry forever

SmokaDustbowl posted:

everyone loves marineland

sweetmercifulcrap posted:

Also most people visiting Sea World Orlando are not from Florida, though there are frequently protesters at the entrance of the park. But y'know lolflorida bugsbunny.gif and all that.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

is this some kind of sarcastic post and im not getting it, or do you actually not know where to find these people

SmokaDustbowl posted:

everyone loves marineland

Cesar Cedeno posted:

I actually live up the road from a family of Orca doctors, nice people, but they have trouble finding work in Iowa.

Companion Cube posted:

Kind of like how practically everyone in charge of making sure oil rigs don't blow up and spew crude into the Gulf of Mexico are also oil industry guys themselves, with obvious results. Where else would you acquire the expertise?

warroar posted:

in canada we have marineland

sweetmercifulcrap posted:

they did refute the claims. (.PDF file) I'm not going to claim to know anything about orcas or the validity of these arguments, only posting this to show that they did more than finger point and claim "propaganda!"

baw posted:

ok so seaworld made that response, got it

and then some scientists wrote back

quote:

Orcas die prematurely at SeaWorld. More orcas have died under SeaWorld’s care
than are currently alive in all at its parks. Its orcas live, on average, as little as a third of
the life span of wild orcas. Despite the veterinary care provided at SeaWorld, it has not
improved the animals’ 50% infant mortality rate. A growing body of scientific evidence
shows that orcas die an early death in captivity, with an annual mortality rate at least three
times higher than in the wild. Most orcas at SeaWorld have died in their teens and 20’s (if
they survived infancy in the first place), compared with an average life expectancy of
30-50 years in the wild (and an estimated maximum life span of 60-90 years). The few
animals in SeaWorld’s collection who have lived closer to their natural average life
expectancy are highlighted as poster children for the captivity industry. Instead they
should be seen as extraordinary survivors.

a hole-y ghost posted:

imprisoned cumwhale

a hole-y ghost posted:

imprisoned cumwhale

SirDan3k posted:

Yes, avoid San Diego

nigga crab pollock posted:

i have family that worked really high up at sea world. they refused an interview for the movie and guess what that was a smart idea cause balckfish is kind of disingenuous and misrepresents a lot of facts and has some p scummy filmmaking

its not totally untrue duh but they really skewed it in their favor by only interviewing junior trainers and not mentioning some pretty fuckin important people

The Taint Reaper posted:

I wish they had tiny whales that you could keep in fish tanks.

redreader posted:

My wife won some kind of competition and is getting a free trip + flight etc to seaworld in san diego. Any tips as to what to do or avoid? I suppose since she got that trip she'll see every single loving thing.

etalian posted:

but but it's a fun stoner town

natetimm posted:

No it's a military tourist town.

dontcareaboutname posted:

depends on what part of san diego, we count parts that aren't san diego city as san diego east west north south county.

Fojar38 posted:

human profits are more important than whale lives hth op

dontcareaboutname posted:

skip sea world go to the zoo instead and then hit balboa park right next to the zoo and hit up all our museums, they are all right next to each other. Eat a bunch of mexican food. hill crest is right by the zoo too you can get a ton of good food there. if you guys want a third hit up the fruit loop.

etalian posted:

balboa park owns, little italy is worth checking out too

Fojar38 posted:

human profits are more important than whale lives hth op

Cream_Filling posted:

unironically this