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Inside Loro Parque, the Dolphin Prison. New footage from behind the concrete walls of Loro Parque, a marine park in Tenerife, Spain, exposes the miserable lives of imprisoned animals. The video shows how orcas and bottlenose dolphins live in tragic conditions and are forced to perform degrading stunts to increase the abusement park’s profits.
Morgan, The Kiler Whale. 23 de November de 20112 min read. The Harderwijk Dolphinarium selected our Orca Ocean facilities to harbour a baby Orca named Morgan, which was rescued by the Dutch dolphinarium in the Wadden Sea on the 23rd of June, 2010. This decision was announced yesterday by the Dutch Court who ruled in favour of the position taken ...
Feb 24, 2010 · February 24, 2010 / 3:53 PM EST / CBS/AP. Last updated 12:09 a.m. Eastern. A SeaWorld killer whale snatched a trainer from a poolside platform Wednesday in its jaws and thrashed the woman around ...
Loro Parque Blames Activists for Whale Captures. Loro Parque, a zoo in the Canary Islands of Spain, recently published a statement on its Facebook page in response to the plight of 11 orcas and about 90 beluga whales that have languished for months in small underwater cages near Vladivostok, Russia. The marine mammals were captured illegally ...
Sep 26, 2011 · The Trials Of Tekoa. While “ Blood In The Water ” focused most on the killer whale Keto, it also detailed a serious incident in which Tekoa, a young male, went after a trainer called Claudia Volhardt, and put her in the hospital. During my reporting, I was told that Tekoa has a tough time at Loro Parque, and is frequently harassed by the ...
Feb 25, 2010 · On Dec. 24, 29-year-old Alexis Martinez Hernandez fell from a whale and crushed his ribcage at Loro Parque on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Park communications director Patricia Delponti said ...
Tragically, the trainer on the far right of this video is Alexis Martinez. Martinez would be brutally killed by Keto on Dec. 24, 2009. Loro Parque’s internal incident report indicated that the orca’s initial attack was so swift and devastating that just 40 seconds into the incident — Alexis appeared “motionless on Keto’s rostrum.”
