Musician Sarah Connor has a great fascination with orcas. And explains why she even turned to the travel company Tui with a request.
The musician Sarah Connor campaigns for the rights of orcas and, as she says, has received a lot of support for her work. The 44-year-old, together with the organization Peta, had called on the travel company Tui to remove marine parks with captive orcas from their holiday offers. A spokesperson for the travel company declined to comment when asked.
“It’s not up to date,” Connor told dpa. “We now know a lot more about these animals than we did 10 or 20 years ago. Orcas are highly intelligent animals that live in complex family structures. Always led by a matriarch, an experienced mother or grandmother, they pass on their knowledge, and the sons often stay with their mothers for life.”
Connor, who comes from Delmenhorst and lives in Berlin, has often seen the whales in the wild. “There they swim up to 200 kilometers a day. In captivity they vegetate in an aquarium, display pathological behavior, mourn, become depressed or aggressive and then often pose a danger to the trainers.”
The singer’s appeal is therefore: “Don’t go to whale or dolphin shows. No matter what the parks’ stupid counterarguments are, it is animal cruelty.”
Source: Stern
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