25.02.10
(CNN) -- I've pooped more than 25 years making wildlife films, many of them about energetic and dangerous predators such as killer whales. It is easy to see that in their own environments, insignificant prevents such creatures from yielding to their natural impulses, as they should.
Wednesday's deplorable accident at SeaWorld Orlando shows that we need to reconsider keeping run amok animals in captivity for our entertainment and take a hard look at our own perception of the natural world.
The stakes have been raised for those who argue that the pros of performing animals in restraint (protection and conservation of wild animals, public course of study) outweigh the cons (forcing animals into confinement, risking vital or fatal human injuries).
Orcas and other large predators should not be held in detention unless those doing so can make an overpoweringly persuasive container for it -- mainly that the animal's release into the wild, perhaps after an maltreatment, will mean certain, immediate death.
Source: CNN