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Entertainment |
Exploitation |
Food |
Fashion |
Pet Shops |
Companion Animals |
Testing |
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| Circuses |
Amusement Fighting/Racing |
Rodeo |
Donkey Basketball |
Marine Parks |
Roadside Zoos |
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| Marine Park: Hiding Dirty Secrets |
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| Did you know? |
- People kill whales because they sell their body parts to make money.
- Whale meat is considered a delicacy in Japan, Norway, and a few other countries.
- Oil from the whale's body is used to make lipsticks, margarine, shoe polish, and transmission oil for cars.
- Tusks from whales sell for a lot of money.
- Whales and other ocean animals kept in captivity do not have enough room to move around in their artificial home.
- Mahi-mahi is a Hawaiian word that means "strong-strong" for dolphin. This species is found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world.
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| Want to help the whales but don't know what to do? |
- Write letters to the Japanese Embassy, 2520 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington D.C. 20008 asking them to stop killing whales; they kill the most whales of all countries in the world.
- If any product you consume includes fish oil or marine oil as an ingredient, don't buy it.
- Do not go to marine parks and aquariums that keep whales and other ocean animals in captivity.
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Shamu Shame |
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Shamu is the name of SeaWorld's killer whale show. Did you know that the name Shamu is actually a name shared by many killer whales at SeaWorld? These beautiful creatures are captured from their natural environment for the Shamu shows, primarily for human entertainment. The first Shamu to be ever captured was a female; she was captured in Puget Sound in 1965 when she was barely four years old. She was kept in captivity and made to perform until she died in 1971; she was only ten years old. In their natural environment, orcas can live to be about 50 - 80 years old. |
| Shamu Jump |
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Photo in public domain; retrieved from wikipedia.org |
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