In the closed marine zoo, male killer whales are sexually stimulated by trainers.
Marineland Antibes closed in January, but the administrator, the French government and the animal rights activists did not agree with where, how or how to reorganize orca.
This closure is ahead of the French law in December and prohibits the use of whales at the marine zoo show.
Trouble means a pair of Wikie (24 years old) and 11 -year -old son Keijo. It is still stored in the pool and cared for by trainers in southern France.
Last week, the activist group Indie Breaker got an overhead video showing two trainers standing at the edge of the swimming pool next to Kijo.
One trainer holds a flipper as he stimulates a whale that can see him in water.
Wikie can be seen in a adjacent pool for the son’s holding. Since Orca is a sociable animal, it is considered harmful to their welfare to keep it permanently in a separate swimming pool.
The video was taken on August 12, and Marineland administrators said that Keijo is reaching adolescence in the BBC news and needs to be measured as the sexual impulse becomes stronger.
“Marineland decided to sexually stimulate Keijo in order to avoid the incest with her mother, fight each other and prevent injuries.”
The administrator adds:
The French Ecology Department says the French Ecosystem, which ORCAS must be recycled, said that Keijo was stimulated once a month by Marineland and that veterinary experts consulted about the process.
Valerie Greenee, a member of TIDEBREAKERS, who has worked for 10 years at Seaworld Orlando, says Keijo’s stimulus on sexual relief is rare.
“As a former killer whale trainer, I’ve never seen this behavior was done except to try a semen collection to use it for artificial modifications.”
Women who maintain prisoners at marine zoo can be artificially modified to breed more calfs, and later can be used to attract more visitors and perform on the show.
This has been very common for the last decade until the law has passed in countries, including France and the United States.
However, Japan’s breeding method is less strict, and activists believe that the marine zoo manager may be interested in buying Orca Semen after the ORCA district of the ORCA district dies on August 3rd.
‘New low’
A week after death, Marineland’s trainer saw Keijo stimulating Keijo.
Greene added: “Keijo is an incest, so it is much more important that his semen can be used for the reproduction of prisoners.” Keijo’s mother and father are anti -brothers.
MARINELAND’s administrator denies that this is why Keijo is stimulated. They prohibit semen sales and all exports require approval from the French government.
The French Ecology Department said Marine Land also had no intention of collecting and exporting orca semen for breeding purposes.
“It is sad that this is a priority when Keijo is not safe, regardless of reasoning,” Greene said.
“The concept that the trainer provides sexual relief to ORCA is a new low -low job in the moral bankruptcy practice of the prisoner industry.”
How did we arrive here?
- November 2024: Agnès Pannier-Runacher Ecological Minister refuses to apply for an application to move Orcas from Marineland to Japan’s Maritime Zoo.
- January 2025: Marineland Antibes has the last show before closing the door. The exercise group requires that it will be moved to Canada’s proposed whale protection area, but it is rejected by the ecological department.
Since then, there has been no great development of where a pair can end, and no European sanctuary site has been developed.
In addition, concerns about the conditions of Marineland and whether Wikie and Keijo are safe to remain there have been dominated.
Two weeks ago, Pannier-Runacher released another Instagram video, saying she tried to alleviate the fear of Orcas’ welfare and said that a regular test of the pool is underway.
Katheryn Wise, a wild animal campaign manager of charitable world animal protection that monitors the situation, said, “The passivity of the French government is insufficient to communicate with organizations related to developing these animals and developing professional alternatives (helping them to reconstruct them).
Animals that cut animals after the zoo are closed are often difficult for large animals that need larger facilities and higher levels of treatment.
Devon’s marine zoo, a living coasts, warned that when the closure was announced in 2020, an animal that could not be found can be euthanized. Eventually, a place was found for them all.
After the Orsa Predator Park in Sweden in 2022, some polar bears could not find new houses by the next year. Two of the bears were taken to the west puck, but one died immediately after the arrival.
At the request of the French court, the expert evaluation is carried out in the facilities of the Marineland, and the Orcas and 12 dolphins should still be accepted there.
The French Ecology Department said, “Task Force, which was founded by the Ministry of Environmental Ambassador Barbara Pompili, was founded by the Ministry of Environment.
In the case of Marketa Schusterova, a video writer who co -founded Tidebreakers, Wikie and Keijo are dark.
She says: “We are building a temporary tank until the sanctuary is prepared and advocating quickly, but we are worried that we will pass at that point. Time is coming.”
