Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Is it so hard to comprehend

"No aquarium, no tank in a marineland, however spacious it may be,
can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea - Jacques Cousteau"


that an amazingly great animal like the Whale Shark belongs to the great, vast ocean?

Freedom. Freedom to live, as you are born to live.

"Resorts World at Sentosa wants to import whale sharks for the attraction and entertainment of visitors. Whale sharks are vulnerable to extinction and have never done well in captivity. Whale sharks can grow as large as two city buses, dive up to 980 metres and migrate over 13 thousand kilometres in the wild. No man-made environment, no matter how large, could accomodate their needs. They live up to a hundred years. It is just plain cruel to keep them in glass cages. Whale sharks have never fared well in captivity. Two whale sharks died within five months of each other at the Georgia Aquarium."
http://www.whalesharkpetition.com/

Creatures of the wild. They are not meant for us to keep.

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