Yet another orca...

...dies in captivity, in Orlando SeaWorld this time. She was only 30 years old... ...in the wild she would expect to live until 80.

Every day that a creature like this is trapped in a swimming pool must feel like torture when you consider its life before it was caught.

yeah it's shyte. I'd do away with all aquariums or have aquariums only where the animals have access to the ocean, i.e. if they don't come, tough luck. they would come tho if you feed them

likewise, elephants. if I was king of europe I'd order that all elephants kept in europe are to live in one really big sanctuary, maybe in spain, and people could go and visit them elephants

I mean you can't just put them back into the wild, or can you?

They are top of the food chain predators...

...that is, until you hit SeaWorld where you are made to perform for completely unnatural reasons and the promise of a chunk of fish handed to you by some inane dweeb yelling into a headset.