whether or not blackfish was totally truthful or not has little bearing on the real situation. so i am not exactly for sure what propaganda against blackfish hopes to accomplish. and i read some of the "lies". there is clearly an agenda on that site. for example, the note about the age of orcas denies a claim with no references to scientific studies.
just spend a little time reading about lolita in the miami seaquarium, who has been alone there for decades. note that orcas are some of the most social and familial animals in the world. her tankmate essentially committed suicide by repeatedly ramming his head against the tank, eventually dying from a hemorrhage.
even if one believes what is stated on that site, i don't see how getting some facts (most of them being inconsequential) wrong negates the tragedy it is that we imprison one of the smartest species on the planet, a truly massive animal, and THE apex predator in the ocean.
you can freely search and find the many stories and horrors of our capture and imprisonment of orcas without watching blackfish.
> note that orcas are some of the most social and familial animals in the world
Humans are also some of the most social and familial animals in the world. Nevertheless, some humans kill, dismember or do the most terrible things to other humans, having so serious mental issues that must be keep apart from society. This pattern can be found in all intelligent animal species. Most specimens are fine but a few can born being psychopaths or develop as one later. And a clever psycho is not something that you should take lightly. Life is unfair, and sometimes (and I'm not saying that is necessarily the Lolita's case) there is a good reason to have a big and mean animal isolated from its congeners.
That's the equivalent of putting somebody in solitary confinement for life, which does more mental harm than good, we already have plenty of scientific evidence for this not just for Humans but many other social animal species. Pigs for example tend to be very clean and smart animals, that is until you hoard too many of them in too little room, then they start to act nasty towards each other because of the stress that situation represents to them.
The behavior you are describing also has little to nothing to do with psychopathy, which is far more prevalent outside of mental institutions and prisons than most people would like to admit.
Blackfish was very far from being truthful. Is manipulative and perversely designed to elicit an emotional and irrational response.
Mixing tillikum footage with old recordings of several people swimming on a pool that were filmed on different decades and places; and mounting both in an apparently continuous attack scene that never happened is just an example. One of many
just spend a little time reading about lolita in the miami seaquarium, who has been alone there for decades. note that orcas are some of the most social and familial animals in the world. her tankmate essentially committed suicide by repeatedly ramming his head against the tank, eventually dying from a hemorrhage.
even if one believes what is stated on that site, i don't see how getting some facts (most of them being inconsequential) wrong negates the tragedy it is that we imprison one of the smartest species on the planet, a truly massive animal, and THE apex predator in the ocean.
you can freely search and find the many stories and horrors of our capture and imprisonment of orcas without watching blackfish.