Poor orca died at age 44 after a life of captivity, moved from one water park to another for life
China, a 44-year-old pseudorca, she died alone in a tub of Sea Life Park, Hawaii, after a lifetime of captivity and pain spent between water parks, research institutes and military structures.
The poor specimen had been caught in 1987 in the waters of the Japanese island of Iki, after which a group of fishermen drew massacred his family. The fishermen considered the pseudorca rivals in fishing, so they killed them with spears and other weapons, but they saved some specimens to sell them at high prices to water parks, as happened in Kina.
After the capture, in fact, the young orca was ceded to a dolphinarium in Hong Kong and in her 44 years of captivity she was transferred several times to different facilities, where she lived in tiny tubs and almost always alone.
These animals are particularly intelligent and in nature they live in groups composed of hundreds of specimens, which move in very deep waters.
For several time Kina ha invece lived in isolation, in small and shallow tanks, without shelter from the sun's rays and without stimuli of any kind.
After living for a short time at the dolphinarium, Kina was purchased by the US Navy where she underwent military training and where she was subjected to mine clearance and naval attack tests.
Six years later she was transferred again, this time to the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology, which subjected her to various acoustic experiments to understand the behavior of cetaceans and for measure the pain threshold following increasingly strong auditory stimuli. Definitely a terrible experience for poor Kina, who in over four decades it has never found peace.
Perhaps Kina found peace last Tuesday when she died in the facility where she was locked up for the last four years of her painful life.
The Sea Life Park of Hawaii has just announced today the death of Kina, the false killer whale locked in its basins...
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In fact, in 2015, when Kina was discharged from the Research Institute, many hoped that she would be transferred to a protected area to spend the last part of her life in peace, instead she was illegally transferred to Sea Life Park Kina where she lived again in a small concrete pool with little water, alone.
To give the announcement of the disappearance of Kina was the director of the marine park, Valerie King, who greeted the animal with words then contested by animal rights.
In fact, King said she was "saddened by the sudden death of Kina" and cited the acoustic experiments that the orca was forced to, underlining how the animal allowed to discover "methods to protect the hearing of marine animals from explosions. and to prevent them from being trapped in networks ”.
The words of the director of the marine park have been defined as "nonsense" by activists who, since 2017, had asked the structure not to use Kina in the shows anymore, given the advanced age and the suffering already suffered by the orca for almost all of its life.
Nobody accepted these requests and until the end, Kina was exploited for economic interests, completely ignoring his suffering.
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Tatiana Maselli
Photo credit: Dolphins Free
