Essays on Blackfish

The film Blackfish by Gabriela Cowper Thwaite, released in 2013, focused on a captive Orcas by SeaWorld. When the Orcas got separated from her family at the age of 2 years, he was rehabilitated by SeaWorld. The confinement of the Whale which was later named Tilikum for over 20 years caused the Orcas immense frustration causing the whale to kill over 3 human trainers (Brower). I believe that these animals have been denied the will to exist naturally in their environment. They are confined and denied of provisions that are paramount to their well-being such as movement by being ...

Scientists, the world over, have a common belief that over 90% of earth’s species have become extinct over the last three billion years that the planet has supported life . It is estimated that there have been at least five mass extinctions spread over millions of years at a time. The latest known mass extinction was towards the end of the Cretaceous period. It is most likely so well known because, the event which occurred over 65 million years ago, caused the end of the dinosaurs. Although in terms of the scale it was smaller than the previous four, ...

The movie Blackfish is an epitome of whales in captivity . It illumined viewers of the documentary film of the plight of whales, particularly orcas or killer whales, which are captured for the sole purpose of providing aquatic entertainment through famous marine mammal parks, like SeaWorld. Statistics provided by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) revealed that there are 54 orcas currently in captivity in a global scale . Viewers are given the opportunity to see the perspective from the view point of these whales in captivity through asserting the traumatic isolation, restrictions, and impositions inflicted on them as trainers worked tediously ...