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Posted 1 month ago

Morgan’s Tale: A Comic

fightingforwhales:

scetaceans:

In light of this post regarding captive orca fanfiction (and my original response here), someone suggested that I share the comic he did for the Free Morgan Foundation:

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This broke my heart :’(

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Posted 6 months ago

Morgan confirmed deaf or hearing impaired.

Morgan - Loro Parque say hearing tests have proven she is deaf. 

International scientists confirm that the orca Morgan, rescued in Holland in 2010 and moved to the park in 2011 at the request of a Dutch judge, suffers a hearing loss that could be very severe and even absolute. This is the conclusion reached by the experts having made multiple hearing tests that took place last week at the facilities of Orca Ocean.

The research team, composed of experts from the Netherlands Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem study (IMARES), the National Endowment for marine mammals and also U.S. Office of Naval Research for the U.S. Navy (U.S. Navy ), studied the hearing of several copies of orca we have in the park. As a result found that they all could record brain responses to sound stimuli, except Morgan. This study confirms the suspicions of our team of trainers and veterinarians, who had warned that the animal did not seem to respond to sound signals.


This type of test, which consists in detecting brain waves in response to the issuance of a sound, is routinely used to determine the hearing of dolphins and small cetaceans. However, its application to the study of orcas sound pioneered the world, since there is only one precedent duplicate fourteen years ago.

With the confirmation of this deafness coaches continue to make visual adaptations of the system they use to communicate with Morgan. With the advice of specialists in animal behavior from the Free University of Berlin, will develop new lines of work that will allow any inconvenience Morgan further. (Translation of Loro Parque Blog, Deficiencia Auditiva – Morgan by Google)
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Posted 6 months ago

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The Free Morgan petition received a huge boost in the last few hours and has now gone over 100,000 signatures!!! 

Well done every one who signed. You’re all made of awesome.

https://www.change.org/petitions/free-orca-morgan?utm_campaign=friend_inviter_modal&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=1755324

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Posted 7 months ago

Ingrid Visser / Orca Research Trust, now have an official Youtube channel.

This is a wonderful video showing just how essential the work that Ingrid and her team does. 

Subscribe and share. 

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Posted 11 months ago
It’s the second anniversary of Morgans capture today.“How long a whale lasts in captivity depends on the animals age at capture and his personality - also on the trainer. You have to be able to challenge them, to know how their minds work. The mark of a good trainer - to too many aquarium owners - is how many tricks you can train them to do in two months. That’s not the point. It’s how long you can maintain the whales sanity…. But you take juvenile orcas: they’re really pretty eager for at least a year, after that, if you can keep them interested…But it’s difficult because the novelty wears off. - But they’re curious enough and interested enough that they wont be driven neurotic in a year. Based on the whales I worked with at Sealand and at the Vancouver Aquarium and the ones I’ve observed in the Californian Aquariums, They all start to get a little bit nutty after two years.” - Graeme Ellis. Zoom

It’s the second anniversary of Morgans capture today.

“How long a whale lasts in captivity depends on the animals age at capture and his personality - also on the trainer. You have to be able to challenge them, to know how their minds work. The mark of a good trainer - to too many aquarium owners - is how many tricks you can train them to do in two months. That’s not the point. It’s how long you can maintain the whales sanity….


But you take juvenile orcas: they’re really pretty eager for at least a year, after that, if you can keep them interested…But it’s difficult because the novelty wears off. - But they’re curious enough and interested enough that they wont be driven neurotic in a year. Based on the whales I worked with at Sealand and at the Vancouver Aquarium and the ones I’ve observed in the Californian Aquariums, They all start to get a little bit nutty after two years.” - Graeme Ellis.