Elephants and whales share several characteristics that lead to their trauma at zoos, circuses and marine parks. Join this conversation with Scott and Kat Blais, founders of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, which runs a beautiful, lush 2,800-acre sanctuary for elephants in Chapada dos Guimarães, Brazil.
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On World Orca Day and the 10th Anniversary of the movie Blackfish, three orca experts discuss the changes in public opinion and at marine entertainment parks, along with how organizations are creating sanctuaries and how captive whales and dolphins can be retired to them.
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We discuss the early evolution of cetaceans (dolphins, whales and porpoises) and how they developed from being land-dwelling mammals to becoming ocean-dwelling animals with some of the biggest and most complex brains on Earth.
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