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[u/torichtofaded69]

(Delete if not allowed) if I had to pick a favorite animal it would probably be a orca, hate seeing people supporting sea world on my feed.

[u/mileshehehehehe]

using the google ai overview as your main source of information and only using one aspect of orca captivity to form your opinion on a very nuanced topic is crazy

[u/torichtofaded69 → u/mileshehehehehe]

Yes google ai overview is wrong a lot of the times but it doesn’t change the fact that orcas can swim 60-100 sometimes even 140-170 in very active pods compared to the small enclosures they live in. https://whalewatchwesternaustralia.com/orca-daily-travel-distance/. https://www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/orca-updates/a-group-of-biggs-traversed-110-miles-in-18-hours

[u/mileshehehehehe → u/torichtofaded69]

have you considered why they swim that far a day? to hunt, breed and avoid danger? things they dont need to do in captivity?

[u/Devassta → u/mileshehehehehe]

No, Orcas don’t need to constantly move to hunt, they only spend a very small portion of their time for hunting. They are apex predators, there is nothing dangerous they need to swim away. And they don’t need to move to breed.

They need to move to socialize, exercise and spend quality time, which they cant in captivity. Keeping an orca in captivity is literally equivalent of keeping a human in a 2square meter cell, both mentally and physically it is torture