Keep Calm and Know the Facts

1) Collapsed dorsal fins - All male orcas in captivity have flopped over dorsal fins. This is caused by the lack of space in their confinements. Flopped over dorsal fins in the wild are extremely rare and are normally a sign of an unhealthy orca.


2) Life Span - The average age for an orca to live to in captivity is 13 years. In the wild, a male orca can live up to 70 years and a female up to 100 years. The lower life span in captivity is partly due to acts of aggression from other orcas and being fed an unnatural diet of thawed dead fish.

3) Tanks - SeaWorld confines orcas to tanks that, for them, are the size of bathtubs. These concrete pools provide orcas with less than 5% of an their natural habitat.





4) Orca's Teeth - Orca's in captivity have been known to break their teeth by gnawing on the iron bars that keep them inside the pools. This is the result of boredom, stress and anxiety at orcas being kept in such small confinements.





5) Orca aggression - In the wild, orca confrontation is rare due to the masses of space. However, in captivity, orcas are forced to live in close confinements. One of the ways orcas attack each other is by raking their teeth along their victims flesh.