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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

Bayard

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1. Its too bad they can't just be released in the ocean

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:56 PM

Sep 2020

But, they would not survive after being taken care of for so long by humans.

"Klettsvik is also where Keiko, the killer whale from the 1993 film “Free Willy”, was flown in 1998. The orca was fully released in 2002 but did not manage to adapt to life in the wild and died 18 months later in a Norwegian fjord."

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Its too bad they can't just be released in the ocean Bayard Sep 2020 #1