People are always told that they should treat everyone the same way, so how come some people believe that that logic doesn’t apply to animals? In the documentary Blackfish, it gives the viewers insight of how orcas truly live at SeaWorld. The main example being a male orca names Tilikum. Males are extremely valuable to them because they tend to use them to breed and obtain more orcas. The orcas are constantly given a bad name because people may think that they're dangerous, but the documentary shows that they're only acting this way because of their living environment. There are many main events that happened throughout this film that made some people believe that the whales were to blame for these incidents. The first place where Tilikum …show more content…
Throughout this there were a lot of events that happened, but the one that surprised everyone was the death of Dawn Brancheau. She was a trainer at SeaWorld for a long time, so people believed that she had a close bond to the orcas. The day of the accident tourist said that the whales seemed agitated and they weren't cooperating. Although they seemed a little off, she still did the show, but when she had "quiet time" with Tilikum he grabbed her forearm and basically mutilated Dawn. SeaWorld still wouldn’t say anything and continued to blame it on unprepared trainers. They said that Dawn had a ponytail which gave Tilikum a way to grab ahold of her, but there was many pictures before that proved that wrong. Lori Marino, a Neuroscientist claimed that, "...They're all emotionally destroyed. They're all psychologically traumatized, so they are ticking time bombs." The whales aren't aware what they are doing is wrong, they eventually get tired of the environment they are living in that they decided to lash …show more content…
They hunted these whales, and ripped them from their family. They would always take the young ones away from their home. John Crowe, who was one of the many people that helped hunt the orcas, talked about how devastated he was to do that. They would grab the babies, but the family wouldn’t leave. They stayed watching them take their young and all he could think of was that this is equivalent to someone kidnapping a human child from their mother. He even admitted that he started to cry while he loaded them on the ship because it felt wrong. Tearing any child from their family can be emotionally scarring, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a human or animal. They can't expect to steal the orcas from there home and not have any consequences. The trainers said that they had a bond with these whales, and that could possibly be true, but at some point those whales will do something because they’ve just had