The French government has been urged to reconsider rehoming two stranded killer whales in Canada. Wikie, 23, and her ...

Both turned out to be wrong, and it was captivity that revealed the truth ... This was certainly true of killer whales, which scientists and fishermen regarded as threats to valuable marine resources.

But the whales’ physical and emotional well-being, he grew to believe, was incompatible with captivity ... to begin construction this year on a new orca habitat, called Blue World, that will ...

These roundups have affected whale populations for decades. Tokitae, or Lolita, was an orca who was captured in a separate roundup in 1970. Tokitae remained in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium ...

Erich Hoyt, author of “Orca: The Whale Called Killer,” told Live Science ... Unlike orcas encountering people in the wild, in captivity, the story is different. There have been dozens of ...

Using underwater explosives, planes and power boats, they corralled the killer whales into a net, in hopes of taking them into captivity to entertain guests at marine parks. The men had a federal ...

“This outdated idea that we can keep whales and dolphins captive ... can be a celebration is if it marks the last orca to be born into a life of captivity for the sake of entertainment, and ...