Salmon Lecture by Dr Chris Caudill (Univ of Idaho) at #Superpod3. Voice of the Orcas: Four Piece Lecture Set from #Superpod3. This article contains three Lectures and a Q&A from #Superpod3, with more material to be posted at Voice of the Orcas Please dig in, as there's a lot to share & a lot to learn about Southern Resident Killer Whales, Russia vs China, Lolita, and salmon (aka pink fish for blackfish).
Also, linked below is 34 mins from a Blackfish movie expert panel. Samantha describes the European screenings & the impact the film is having around the world. The additional material, to be posted under one tab at the site, will store interviews, a statement from Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, via Kimberly Ventre, and Monday Night (World Orca Day) lectures. We will archive all of it under one tab at VOTO, but here is a sneak preview of the approved interviews. If you are interested in #Superpod4, the event will be July 20-24, 2015, on San Juan Island, WA, USA. Voice of the Orcas. Obama: Don't Kill Whales for Oil. Ms. sofia tsiamouri, Greece Sep 30, 13:12 Mrs.
Eveline Geiger, Germany Sep 30, 12:24 Ms. Sep 30, 10:33 Mrs. Sep 30, 06:02 Ms. Sep 30, 04:36 Mr. Sep 30, 01:10 Ms. Sep 30, 00:18 Mrs. Sep 29, 12:13 Ms. Sep 29, 07:35 Mrs. nicoletta meneghelli, Italy. Voice of the Orcas. Bringing awareness to the plight of the dolphins trapped in the Mojave Desert. The Killer in the Pool. An orca at Seaworld San Diego.
Photo: Britta Jaschinski/laif/Redux To work closely with a killer whale in a marine park requires experience, intuition, athleticism, and a whole lot of dramatic flair. Few people were better at it than top SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who, at 40, was blond, vivacious, and literally the poster girl for the marine park in Orlando, Florida, appearing on billboards around the city. She decided she wanted to work with killer whales at the age of nine, during a family trip to SeaWorld, and loved animals so much that as an adult she used to throw birthday parties for her two chocolate Labs. This past February 24, Brancheau was working the Dine with Shamu show, featuring SeaWorld's largest killer whale, a six-ton, 22-foot male known as "Tili" (short for Tilikum).
The show ended around 1:30 P.M. One level down, a group of families gathered before the huge glass windows of the underwater viewing area. Topoleski hit the pool's siren. Tim Zimmermann. Whistling past the graveyard…and wondering if the revolution will ever begin. Tim Zimmermann. Ceta-Base: Captive Dolphin, Beluga & Killer Whale Database. Orca Aware - Home. The Forgotten Orca - Orca Aware. 2014 Taiji, Timeline of Events (Drive Fisheries) All Parks, Drive Hunt Directory. The List Of Marine Parks That Buy Dolphins From Taiji’s Hunt Is Getting Bigger Every Year. The dolphin drive hunt season in Taiji, Japan is now underway — though no animals have been caught yet.
The reason for the hunt is overwhelmingly to support the industry for captive dolphins (dolphin meat is rarely eaten in the country because it contains high levels of mercury) — but who is behind this industry? As it turns out, a total of 106 marine parks around the world currently keep dolphins caught in the Taiji hunts, according to Ceta-Base, a database of captive marine mammals. The animals are mainly concentrated in Japan and China (56 and 26 marine parks, respectively), but reach as far as Mexico and even Hawaii.
(Ceta-Base) Find an interactive version of the map here. Last season, The Dodo reported that 99 parks around the world held dolphins from Taiji hunts — this season the list is up to 106 confirmed parks. And the hunt continues to reel in animals for captivity — last year a total of 164 dolphins were taken captive, while about 800 were killed.