Why don't they just leave those animals alone?

[Ray9]

You know, it's pretty much of a no-brainer that wild animals are dangerous but some among us just can't keep their hands off them for all kinds of twisted reasons. We all remember what happened to Timothy Treadwell, a delusional stalker of grizzly bears and there is no shortage of his brethren of sick, animal-molesting meddlers who believe in their devient, warped minds that they are performing some kind of public service to the human race and the animal kingdom. These animals belong where they can live and be wild. They are not tools for entertainment or education. I never thought I'd say this but I totally support PETA for condemning the practice of capturing and displaying wild animals for entertainment. What a shame these human idiots keep getting deep-sixed for something so obviously stupid and wrong.


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[WoodElf4U]

Well, thats a bit of a narrow view. Whales have been trained and worked with for decades. It is dangerous, and someone did die. People die is car wrecks everyday, does that mean everyone that hops in a car is stupid?

And peta values animal life OVER human life. Warped ideals.

[Warrior]

Capturing wild animals isn't just for entertainment. The same venues also serve research purposes which help us learn more about the animals that are there.

Having said that, I have never understood why people treat killer whales (and dolphins, too, for that matter) as though they are cute little things to be played with. They are every bit the predator that bears, lions, and similar land animals are.

[daydreamer]

Capturing wild animals isn't just for entertainment. The same venues also serve research purposes which help us learn more about the animals that are there.

Having said that, I have never understood why people treat killer whales (and dolphins, too, for that matter) as though they are cute little things to be played with. They are every bit the predator that bears, lions, and similar land animals are.

i agree. i don't like when people are mean to land animals either

[AnimalEssence]

I have always been a bit disheartened by the selfish intentions humans have for keeping wild animals in captivity.

Zoos for example focus on nothing but animals that don't get too stressed out from being on display and being gawked at, teased, yelled at etc. Mostly tigers, elephants, giraffes, lions, rhinos, polar bears things that are big and impressive or cute and cuddly. Now, thats not to say that a lot of these species don't need the help from breeding programs that zoos have established. But there are tons of other, FAR more endangered species out there that most people have never heard of.

Those animals need the help MORE, but they don't get it because they don't thrive well in a zoo environment. Or because they aren't very impressive or cute. Take the mhorr gazelle for example, a subspecies of the dama gazelle (also critically endangered). Nobody's ever heard of them, yet there are none at all left in the wild and only a couple hundred in captivity.

[Ray9]

I celebrate my position at the top of the food chain. That being said I respect wild animals and believe they are quite capable functioning successfully without human tampering. If they go extinct then so be it. Animals have been going extinct since the beginning and human animals are no more immune to extinction than the dinosaurs. Humans are under no obligation to rescue species or improve their chances of survival. Darwin rules here. Wild animals, particularly predatory wild animals, catch and kill things to survive. Many pedators are smarter than their prey which makes them attractive to some gullible humans who see their superior intelligence as a sign of kinship. The wild animals eventually see these morons as lunch. Now I realize humans are over-breeding and encroaching on animal habitats but that's what we do when things, specifically climate, go well for us. The human race will re-set to more manageable numbers when the climate goes bad again. In the interim, we should leave wild animals alone and keep eating the animals we have domesticated and bred for that prupose. So the next time a whale beaches itself and flounders in the sand leave it alone. It knows what it's doing.

[LaoTzu]

It was obviously an Orca-strated murder....

[eagleseven]

Having said that, I have never understood why people treat killer whales (and dolphins, too, for that matter) as though they are cute little things to be played with. They are every bit the predator that bears, lions, and similar land animals are.
A killer whale killed someone, and we are shocked? The logic of humans sometimes escapes me...

[kepstein8888]

Well, thats a bit of a narrow view. Whales have been trained and worked with for decades. It is dangerous, and someone did die. People die is car wrecks everyday, does that mean everyone that hops in a car is stupid?

Good point. Unfortunately the public and the media don't see risk that way. All they see is: Nice lady. Bad whale.

The lady seems nice, and probably would have accepted the risk and forgiven the whale. But either way, it doesn't seem fair to coop them up like that for entertainment purposes. Why not take the kids out whale-watching or snorkeling instead of those crowded, overpriced marine parks?

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And peta values animal life OVER human life. Warped ideals.

What's your evidence for that?

[Holiman]

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Yes many PETA members value animals over humans, why is that a hard thing to accept?

Also for information only, NO killer whales have been captured in decades, by US interests. And when readmited into the wild seem to die soon after.

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