Gabriela Cowperthwaite's polemic against keeping orca in captivity makes for grimly compelling viewing, telling story after story that the wildlife parks would presumably prefer we didn't hear. There's no real attempt at balance here - to be fair, Sea World, portrayed as the main offenders, chose not to comment - but the evidence presented is very hard to discount. At the forefront of the discussion is Tilikum, a large male whose DNA exists within vast numbers of captive-bred orca, a fact made worrying by his responsibility for multiple human deaths. Cowperthwaite's argument that he was simply driven insane by captivity, however, is a highly persuasive one.
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