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Human beings think that they are the highest creatures in the earth's ecological environment, and even think that there is nothing comparable to humans, let alone other creatures that can mentally rival humans.
But like humans, some animals also have a very rich feeling, and they will also feel pain, and they will also feel extreme grievance and grief when they are treated unjustly or even abused.
These exploited animals, while being captive, also have to endure endless pain and suffering, one killer whale after 42 years of captivity, after experiencing 5 times of losing a child, the already scarred heart shattered, began to frantically self-mutilation.
How was this killer whale imprisoned?
How did it survive these 42 years, and why did it act so desperately?
1. Killer whales in captivity.
This killer whale is named Kiska, a female killer whale whose story begins in 1969.
In 1969, when Kiska was a juvenile tuckling whale, she and her mother were trekking across Iceland, Canada, enjoying the chill of the Arctic waters.
At that time, the sea of Iceland was dazzling in the sun with the leisurely swimming killer whales, their tumbling and jumping, mixed with the fog of the sea, making people feel like they were in a mysterious marine world.
But just as the killer whales were enjoying the pleasures of the ocean, suddenly, a huge whaling ship appeared in front of the killer whales, accompanied by the noisy sound of machinery and the roar of humans.
Whalers' harpoons, like poisonous snakes, pierced the bodies of the she-killer whales, piercing their skin and their hearts, and eventually, after the killer whale mother and child were killed, the whale ship's people dragged their carcasses onto the ship.
On board, the whalers, like mad demons, began to cut the flesh from the carcasses, refining their fats and selling them as extremely high-priced goods, along with three stillborn killer whale babies.
In order not to sacrifice the babies in vain, the whalers cut them up and preserved the carcasses of the three baby killer whales for processing and selling as a more profitable commodity.
In this way, Kiska was imprisoned before she could be accompanied by her mother, and she was sent to the Marineland Aquarium with two baby killer whales with the same fate, where she began her captivity journey.
At the Marineland Aquarium, Kiska's fate did not give it some respite from being captive, on the contrary, its fate became more difficult.
Since 1979, when the Marineland Aquarium learned that the Kiska had entered the breeding season, they have been breeding the Kiska continuously, but they have not realized that the Kiska has not reached the breeding age at all.
Moreover, Kiska's partner and child, after several births, have lost their lives under the irresponsibility of Marineland Aquarium, which has caused Kiska to suffer great psychological trauma, so Marineland Aquarium's behavior has also seriously damaged Kiska's body and mind.
In the same year, Kiska also performed an underwater ballet called "Underwater Ballet", in which he was forced to perform a difficult underwater ballet performance with another killer whale in the icy waters, and Kiska was trained on fish feed by the keepers because he refused to perform.
However, Kiska is a killer whale after all, not a human, it does not have the same thinking ability as a human, and it will not be willing to perform because of the deliciousness of fish feed, so in the process of being forced to train, Kiska was beaten by the keeper with a hose because of his resistance to training, and his body was slightly injured.
However, even so, Kiska did not give up the idea of resisting, refusing to perform, and was repeatedly mistreated by the keepers of the aquarium, and eventually, after being forced to perform, Kiska never saw her partner again, nor did she see her children again.
As a result, Kiska lived in solitude in the Marineland Aquarium for 42 years, during which time she had a pregnancy experience, but after the birth of the child, she also lost her life, which made Kiska, who was already living in captivity, even more desperate, and the whole killer whale never showed any signs of activity again.
During this period, Kiska's body was also very weak due to the long-term captivity and forced performance, and the muscles and flippers in her abdomen were almost degenerated, making it extremely inconvenient to move, so her body was always covered with various scratches and abrasions.
2. Heartbreak and loss of children five times.
On Kiska's body, it can be seen that this is a killer whale that has experienced endless pain and abuse, and it has countless scars on its body, but among these scars, there is a scar that has never healed, which is Kiska's deepest scar.
Ever since Kiska entered the Marineland Aquarium, they have been forced to perform and breed, but while their performances are beautiful, there is endless abuse behind the aquarium.
It is precisely because Kiska and his partners are unwilling to perform, and are beaten and beaten by the keepers of the aquarium with water pipes, so Kiska always has endless pain on his body, not to mention that Kiska's biggest pain is the loss of 5 children.
For the first time, Kiska was imprisoned in the aquarium for less than a year, and he and a male killer whale named Kanuck were forcibly arranged together by the aquarium to breed, and at the same time, Kiska was also forcibly pregnant, but, after giving birth to the child, Kiska's child was found to be stillborn, and in the end, Kiska's child, after birth, was already a corpse, and Kiska, because of the residue of the placenta, caused huge bleeding, and almost died from this false reproduction of the child.
The second time, only two years after the last pregnancy, Kiska was pregnant again, but Kiska's child, who did not live long after birth, died of illness just 28 hours after birth, and Kiska, because of the child's death, fell into great grief, and in the end, the keeper could only forcibly drag the child's body away from her with seawater.
3. Frequent self-harm.
The third time, Kiska was pregnant with a child again with the expectation of a child, but the child died by Kiska's side 18 days after birth, and Kiska, just like that, fell into grief again.
The fourth time, although Kiska died 10 days after giving birth, Kiska and her partner Ocean reproduced, and eventually, Kiska conceived a child again, but after 4 times of losing a child, Kiska was no longer able to have children, so in the end, the child could only die 18 days after conception.
The fifth time, Kiska's child was already stillborn from the beginning, and Kiska had already felt the strangeness and grief of the child when she conceived the child, and in the end, the child did not survive to the time of birth, and died in Kiska's body.
After the loss of so many children, Kiska's heart also became broken, and Kiska, who lost her fertility, spent 42 years of captivity in the Marineland Aquarium, so her heart became more and more broken, and eventually, its heart was shattered 5 times in a row, becoming more fragile, until 2011, when its heart was broken again, and it began to frequently self-mutilate.
Kiska self-harms more frequently in order to free her mind, but this self-harm does not bring the salvation it needs, but instead keeps hurting her body.
Fourth, the abuse has been exposed.
Since Kiska began to self-harm frequently, Marineland Aquarium, in order not to damage its own interests, has stepped up its concealment and blockade of Kiska, however, this did not allow their concealment to succeed, and in the end, Kiska's self-harm behavior was exposed by a keeper.
In 2011, a keeper named Phil Demers found that Kiska's body was covered with self-harm scars, so he began to expose the abuse of the Marineland Aquarium.
It wasn't until 2012 that Phil Demers and the public's protests attracted widespread attention to Kiska's story, and with the support of all sectors of society, Marineland Aquarium was finally forced to disclose Kiska's true condition, and promised to provide Kiska with a more reasonable living environment, and Kiska, because of public opinion, finally escaped from the devil's captivity.
However, after being imprisoned and abused for a long time, Kiska became extremely vulnerable physically and psychologically, and as a result, his mind never healed, and eventually, in 2019, he died of illness in the Canadian Oceanarium.
epilogue
Kiska is a female killer whale, as a killer whale that has been imprisoned for 42 years, during these 42 years, it has experienced endless pain and suffering, but it is still strong to survive, its story has also awakened the neglect and indifference of human beings to animal rights, and its story has also made human beings begin to pay attention to the rights and interests of animals and protect the living environment of animals.
Not only Kiska, but also more animals like Kiska have also been imprisoned and abused, and they also need human attention and help, so we should know that everything must be done in a certain way, raising and captive animals, and also following the animal rights protection law, providing a reasonable living environment and living conditions for animals, rather than using animals as just a tool for profit.