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Sea creatures by nature, roam a wide area and need interaction with others and room to roam to stay mentally and physically healthy.
Why the need to confine the animal and say that "they're happy"???
Zoos may have been a viable resource to enlighten the masses when travel to foreign lands was not easy or cheap.
Now, because of the "institatutionalizing" of the animals they cannot be released to the wild because they would not survive on their own. There is also the breeding-in-captivity aspect where the animals have no idea how to interact with others and are reliant solely on us feeding them.
Yeah, we're supposed to be the most intelligent, highly evolved dominant creature on this planet but we sure show signs that we suck at it!!!!
You know why you rarely ever see male elephants in circus shows???
Because they cannot be controlled and when they have finally have "had enough" they lose it in tramatic fashion, usually resulting with the animal being killed. (Killer whales are the aquatic equal.)
Then you have the trained bears, lions, tigers and chimps.
Animals can and will go crazy in captivity, and will take out their anger and frustration on the trainers, owners and occaisionally the viewing public.
Imagine being taken from your parents as a baby/child, seeing your parents killed, and then forced to live in a cage and forced to learn to perform in order to receive food? Sounds like paradise, right???
Now imagine spending years like that and when you've had all you could stand, you decide to take action against the first person you can get your hands on.
This is not an idictment of the system as a whole, but rather a commentary on how it could be perceived. For the record, I would be happier with having an animal preserve where the animals would have more freedom and less human control.
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