I feel sorry for the orcas.

#teamorca

They cleared out a lot more room since the 90s. I grew up near (and was often in) that zoo as a kid. Cindy was a problem for a few reasons, not just the small enclosure. She was not really trained, never interacted with other elephants, and only had one handler for most of her life. She got violent and didn't transition well and that's not a reputation zoo animals can have.

From what I remember they finally moved her out, razed a whole section of the zoo, and now they've got somewhat adequate space for a pair of elephants. Still not great but Cindy's situation was rough and a shame.

I think this year that zoo finally will reopen the south pacific exhibit after realizing the 1800s british explorer look was a little... outdated and needed remodeling.

Not for the whole world, but someone recently posted this map of Germany here:

Source: https://x.com/cvictordus/status/1791961219143766322

From top to bottom, left to right, the bigger areas say:

• Energiepflanzen → plants grown for generating electricity
• Vegetation → vegetation, just the random plants around the place presumably
• Pflanzliche Ernährung → plant-based food
• Viehfutter → forage, i.e. plants grown to feed animals (which will mostly be used for animal-based food).
• Siedlung + Industrie → industry and the places they build to house workers
• Wohnen → housing
• Verkehr → traffic (presumably parking + roads etc.)
• Rest → remaining, unclassified areas
• Wasser → water
• Wald → forest

So, we do have some areas where animals can hang out, mainly forests, but as the map you linked points out, essentially none of it is wilderness either. The forests are commercially used and suffer from monospecies trees.

Holy shit. No wonder the ecosystem is going to shit. We're so fucking greedy. The red spots look like an infection.

I expect this to get a lot of negative input, but the Orca's free roam space is actually 3x the size they've highlighted. And granted, it's really small compared to the oceans of the world, but someone's purposely lying, and to make the point they don't even need to. Just had to try to get the multiplier to move a tiny bit more, like that would be the sway point.

Still not sure what people expect SeaWorld to do with the orcas they currently have. Should they all be shot? Is that better for the orcas? They would starve to death if released.

Also didn't SeaWorld agree to stop using orcas recently?

Yeah there's loads of reasons to hate seaworld, but cars aren't really one of them.

I think i said this on some other post from my alt account and got downvotes to oblivion. I'm glad hivemind today is up voting facts.

So there's a couple things at play here.

1. The post is kind of BS since that whole area isn't just SeaWorld's parking lot (see other comments for more info).
2. The amount of parking spots a business must have is regulated. On average it's about 4 parking spots for every 1000 sqft. SeaWorld Orlando is 200 acres. That's a lot of parking spots they're required to have. I agree it definitely ends up being a TON of parking spots most businesses don't need, but it's not the business's fault.

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What's wrong with orcas? I mean, it seems like they're kinda psychotic... but who's to judge?

I assume they can't just get rid of the orcas they have, they wouldn't do well in the wild anymore.

"SeaWorld still has 18 orcas in its three US parks, and offers a variety of experiences with them. In 2016, SeaWorld announced that it would end its orca breeding program and phase out orca shows in response to the death of orca trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010 and the 2013 documentary Blackfish."