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It was recently Mother’s Day. Did you know marine parks have split apart many mothers and their babies? This continues to happen.

Although SeaWorld Parks have stopped their orca breeding programme, they still transfer around their other animals like objects. There are also other marine parks still trading their cetaceans between facilities. For example, in Asia, orcas and other cetaceans are still being transferred around to be traded and bred. 

Mothers and babies are split apart from each other in captivity. This is so the mother or the baby can be taken to another facility to be bred or to get a large sum of money from the other facility. 

This causes immense trauma in these animals, the mothers have been seen crying out or showing abnormal behaviour after having their baby taken away.
Most captive calves are taken away prematurely for training, performances and transfer. 

The baby grows up not knowing how to raise a calf as they have had no mother to teach them, resulting in many rejecting or attacking their calf in captivity which is never see in the wild.

 In the wild, the pod relatives stay together for life in complex structures. They pass down cultures and lessons through generations. They breed by going to other pods in their ecotype.

Once they get pregnant, they will not breed again for a few years inbetween. Yet in captivity, they are constantly forced to have another pregancy, putting immense stress on the female cetacean’s body which has caused severe complications later on. 

An orca is worth about 10 million dollars and a dolphin is worth as much as 150,000 dollars. A single dolphin can make a park as much as 400,000 to 2 million dollars per year for a venue. To keep this going in many marine parks, they have to trade their animals between facilities.

In addition, this creates a cruel industry of cetaceans being constantly impregnated, artificially inseminated and living in an unstable pod and cruel environment. 

 This isn’t about conservation, but about big sums of money and bringing in hundreds of visitors. These parks know how many visitors will come to see these ‘entertaining’ shows. 

In the picture above is Keto. He died at 29 in LoroParque in 2024, the place where he killed a trainer in 2009.

Keto’s death cause has still not been released publicly. He was taken from his mother, Kalina, at three years old and was transferred around all the SeaWorld Parks before he went to LoroParque. He was sent to LoroParque on a breeding loan and was forced into incest with his half sister Skyla and his niece Kohana. 
His brother, Keet, still lives at SeaWorld San Diego. 

Let’s make a world where animal captivity for human entertainment ceases to exist.