The terrifying footage of a trainer punching and kicking two belugas swimming in a Russian water park tank
Verbal violence, kicks and punches: this also happens to animals locked up in water parks, as evidenced by the distressing scenes shot by the surveillance cameras of the Primorsky Oceanarium, located on Russky Island in Russia. The footage shows a trainer punching and kicking two belugas swimming in a small tank on the facility.
To publish the video on YouTube, denouncing all the cruelty that the marine animals of the structure are forced to suffer, the non-profit organization Save The Ocean.
According to activists, the Russian trainer was trying to teach the two beluga whales (Lear, who is 13, and Lear, who is 12) a stunt, but when both refused, they were stung. with kicks and punches.
And, unfortunately, it would not be an isolated case of violence, but a consolidated practice within the structure (and obviously many others) that leads these mammals to become very aggressive among themselves, especially during the breeding season. .
For its part, Primorsky Oceanarium denies that the whales felt pain due to the blows inflicted by the trainer.
“These are abnormal methods, barbarians and before the law it is equivalent to cruelty towards animals” - comments Dmitry Lisitsyn, head of the NGO Sakhalin Environment Watch - “This is not training, but beating. The incident occurred on May 5, but it has only just come to light. There have been other troubling cases at the Oceanarium on Russia's Pacific coast. In 2017, a beluga whale died after getting entangled in nets. Following another accident, a trainer was fired after hitting a walrus. Three white striped dolphins, a sea lion, two walruses and a beluga whale also died in the aquarium ”.
This story is just the umpteenth confirmation of the violence and psychological pressure to which animals in water parks are subjected. Buying a ticket to visit these structures means being complicit in these atrocities.
Fonte: Save the Ocean
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