Interesting how he just got passed down after having trouble in Canada.
Would have been nice if they had some kind of rehab facility for the animals that obviously do not enjoy this line of work. It's not like they asked to be captured and used for entertainment. Some place where they can just swim and eat fish and be left alone. Passing them on to another park seems so unlikely to solve any problems. I wonder what the reasoning behind doing that was?
Edited to add: I just read that they can be successfully released back into the wild:
But “the vast majority of the orca whales in captivity would be far better off to be returned to the wild. Orcas are unbelievably ill-suited to life in theme parks and can be successfully returned to the wild. We know, because we have done it,” says David Phillips, director of the International Marine Mammal Project for the Earth Island Institute, who led the effort to rescue, rehabilitate, and release the killer whale Keiko, made famous in the movie “Free Willy.” “Orcas deserve a better fate than living in cramped pools.
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