Seventy-one percent of all known false killer whales captured for U.S. facilities are dead after an average of a few years in captivity, and most are selected from the infamous drive fisheries in Japan, just before the others are killed. Participating fishermen have said that these captive sales have helped the fishery continue. Just one of 70 Amazon river dolphins held in the U.S. is alive, but none of the 96 spinner dolphins or ten harbour porpoises or nine Dall's porpoises have survived. Other species have been deliberately caught as exotic experiments, or were brought into captivity as a result of a stranding response collection. Captivity is not real life - spot the illusion.
Captive facilities have a point of view - challenge it.
Captivity is a business - understand its economic role and your power as a potential consumer. Ninety-five percent have died, living an average of only 5.2 years once in captivity. Worldwide, about 135 orcas have been taken for captivity and unknown numbers died during the process. Scientists are only just beginning to understand the impact on wild populations when individuals are removed. The industry has ignored what it has left behind.