Yes, unique animal, tremendously popular. They are a such a large animal that unless you’re able to provide them a really large exhibit would probably be best left away from our collections. What’s too large, what’s too small is up to anybody’s opinion. I guess. Again, there’s USDA regulations that… Read More
Can you, can you talk about your views regarding the hot topic of aquariums maintaining killer whales in their collections?… Read More
How many people will get to see a beluga whale in the wild or a killer whale in the wild?… Read More
There are people that have never been to the ocean, period. I’ve read of people that live in the city that have never seen Lake Michigan, which I can’t believe, but it’s a, it’s getting to know the animals. Excuse me. Read More
And, you know, should we be doing this?… Read More
Again, in my field work, I’ve had tremendous exposure to animals in the wild, including killer whales several times. And it’s just, it takes your breath away. One time we were out on Monterey Bay and we came across the sperm whale, and I’m with, I’m brand new to the… Read More
And by and large we felt yes. You know, if we’re following government mandates as far as the size and the water quality and everything size of the exhibitry, it’s okay. There’s a lot of people that just become endeared to these animals. And it could be fish as well. Read More
But the challenge was, well, do you think that’s correct?… Read More
There was a lot of heat that was generated as far as, wow, do you think they’re doing the right thing?… Read More
Is that, should they even have an animal that large, these animals swim for miles every day. How can they swim? This small concrete bathtub that was a common term, used a facility like SeaWorld has had tremendous success with killer whales breeding them and maintaining them. This was kind… Read More
An aquarium in that you have marine mammals. Yeah, you may have an oceanarium component or even maybe a zoo that has marine mammals. Read More
The reality is this animal killed several individuals, the tillicum, the major whale in the documentary. And you know, people have come up with many reasons. It’s, you know, it’s a large male, it’s naturally aggressive. It happens to be an aggressive animal. The, the space it was kept in… Read More
So that when we get approached with a question like you just asked me, you know, what is okay for us to say to you?… Read More
And we try to always work together whenever we have say a controversial issue such that, you know, we would talk with SeaWorld people and ask them, you know, what messaging are you getting out?… Read More
What are you, how are you addressing this?… Read More
What it effect did that have within the aquarium profession?… Read More
Well, they do try to monitor them. They’ll put a transmitter on which lasts for X number of months before the battery dies. But when they become too large, you have to put ’em back in the wild and they’ll go to the place from which the animal is collected… Read More
Yeah, Blackfish was, boy, it’s a tough documentary to watch. It had to do with killer whales. It’s specifically SeaWorld. Read More
The Monterey Aquarium has done a good job with smaller tuna. They do get to the point that they become problematic and that they may become predatory on smaller animals sometimes. And the interesting way that Monterey alleviated this, they had animals, they fast swim and boom, they smack into… Read More
And again, to your question of like, how do they do?… Read More