Another Orca Dies at SeaWorld
Unna, who died yesterday at SeaWorld San Antonio in Texas, at only 18 years old from a fungal infection, was the daughter of Tilikum, the tormented orca who features in Blackfish, the documentary film which continues to have a huge impact on SeaWorld’s finances which are made from the archaic and cruel captive entertainment industry.
Unna is the third orca to die at the San Antonio SeaWorld facility in just the past six months, and the 38th SeaWorld orca to die young.
Born in SeaWorld Orlando, Unna was callously ripped away from her mother at only six years of age, and shipped to SeaWorld San Antonio. Unna lived and died her miserable life and death in captivity, knowing only the unforgiving concrete walls and caustic chlorinated waters of a tank.
SeaWorld has an appalling premature death rate. Female orcas can live up to and even over 100 years in the wild, but most orcas at SeaWorld and other captive facilities don’t live anywhere near that long.
Given SeaWorlds’ “best” and “constant” care – as they describe it – one would expect orcas to live longer in captivity than in the wild. Yet, even with consistent food and veterinary care, they barely survive, let alone thrive.
SeaWorld’s reputation continues to sink, and their enslaved orcas continue to die premature deaths from captivity related conditions that are unheard of in the wild.
RIP Unna. And may your premature death serve to END this
absurd cruelty once and FOR ALL.
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