#remember kids… whale-watching isn’t automatically more ethical than visiting an aquarium

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Oh god my heart dropped when you said people are swimming with wild orcas now. Thats a disaster waiting to happen. At least with captive orcas, they’re used to people, but a wild orca would be happy to fuck up a new “toy”. Maybe people should consider that the reason there are no reports of humans being killed by wild orcas is because we don’t just casually swim with them.

Yeah… they’ve become really popular in Norway. And my friend from Mexico told me the tours boats there will communicate with each other to share the locations of orca pods and take passengers to swim with them.

We’re playing with fire here.

(Oh, and dolphin tour boats in Florida are the worst about this.)