If SeaWorld Could Time-Travel | Funny PETA Video

Bribes? Penguin meat? Dolphin burger Saturdays? What else would you expect from the public relations team that gave us spying on PETA, an ad claiming that the ocean is too dangerous for orcas, and the epic debacle that was the #AskSeaWorld campaign, hailed as the worst social media fail of 2015?

In PETA's irreverent new parody video, SeaWorld is at it again, trying to figure out a way to get its reputation and revenue out of the gutter. It's even traveling through time to try to work out how to win back customers, with the help of a time-travel mechanism that runs on baby orca tears.

Of course, it could just retire the animals to sea sanctuaries. But apparently, that answer would be too easy. Join the millions of people all around the world who have already told SeaWorld, "The truth is out there. That's kind of the issue. And yeah, you suck."

PETA's mission statement is that animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way:

SeaWorld confines animals in tiny, concrete tanks at marine abusement parks across the country. Often housed with incompatible tankmates, dolphins, whales, and other animals at the parks are regularly drugged in order to manage stress-induced aggressive behavior and relieve the endless monotony of swimming in circles. They break their teeth chewing on the metal bars and concrete sides of their tanks, and they’re forced to perform tricks for tourists in exchange for food—all in the name of “entertainment.” It’s a business built on the suffering of intelligent, social animals who are denied everything that’s natural and important to them.

SeaWorld—which owns all but one of the orcas held captive in the U.S.—has a long history of mistreating animals. In the wild, orcas are intelligent predators who work cooperatively in search of food. They share complex relationships in a matrilineal society. In some populations, they rarely leave their mother’s pod, but at SeaWorld, they have often been separated from their family. They have group-specific food preferences and behavior. These attributes, along with wild orca pods’ unique dialects, are considered a form of culture that is unrivaled by any species other than humans. Free orcas are among the fastest animals in the sea—they can swim as far as 140 miles in a day and dive deeply. But at SeaWorld, they swim in endless circles in small barren concrete tanks.

Orcas at SeaWorld are dying far short of their natural lifespans. Forty-one have died on the park’s watch, at an average age of only 14. Not one has reached the maximum lifespan of an orca in nature. Hundreds of dolphins, whales, pinnipeds, and other animals have also died.

SeaWorld spends only about 3 percent of its profits on conservation.

PETA employs a variety of tactics to help the animals held captive and forced to perform at SeaWorld’s parks, including public education and demonstrations, complaints to law-enforcement officials, corporate negotiations, shareholder activism, litigation, celebrity engagement, and more.

In 2013, the documentary Blackfish was released to critical acclaim and became an instant phenomenon, causing stars such as Willie Nelson and Martina McBride to cancel concerts at SeaWorld, schools to cancel field trips there, and attendance to drop. The film exposes the park’s horrific capture of young orcas from their families in the ocean, the misery of their lifetime confinement to tiny tanks, and how this cruelty led the frustrated orca Tilikum—who died after 33 years in a concrete prison—to kill three human beings, even though orcas in the wild have never hurt a human.

Since Blackfish, SeaWorld’s attendance and revenue have tanked. In 2017, the park incurred a net loss of $202.4 million and a decrease in visitors of 1.2 million (5.5 percent). Many of its high-ranking executives have stepped down, including CEO Joel Manby, Chief Creative Officer Anthony Esparza, and Vice President of Theme Park Experience Design Brian Morrow.

Dozens of corporate partners—including Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, Mattel, Southwest Airlines, STA Travel, and Taco Bell—have severed their ties with SeaWorld.

PETA and many others are urging SeaWorld to modernize its business by ending the use of all animals and retiring the orcas, dolphins, and other animals to seaside sanctuaries, where they can thrive in the enrichment and diversity of the sea while still receiving care, feeding, and veterinary support.

[keikoceans]

“And a very sad orca to you aswell.” 😂

[ellahicks]

“Imprisonment - Cause the ocean is bad for orcas” LOL that’s so SeaWorld! #Emptythetanks

[dekuboidonut]

My answer to the question at 3:24 is one word: *MONEY!*

[tsommers]

Love the "IMPRISONMENT" poster behind the desk.

[pussinjordans]

Ok, i agree, SeaWorld kills. Thank god i finally found 1 reasonable video

[israelarzate]

They don’t do it becuase if they did then they couldn’t brag about their shows or make revenue if there’s no sea life at sea world it would just be called water world -A.D.

[kingluigi]

Why not make animatronic Killer Whales?

[mouseking]

Oh dam! you vegan people ate my brother carrot 🥕 how dare you you should really watch sausage party

[batcat]

This looks like a cheasy add I love it!!!

[peacockgirllayla]

PETA, this is not enough to help SeaWorld animals try urging big blue bubble to adopt all monsters from msmtubers like me please

[vaporangl]

I like peta but... That’s just not... Like i don’t think it’s ‘good’

[tet]

PLANTS CAN FEEL PAIN TOO.HOW YOU DARE EATING VEGGIES.YOUR STUDIO ITS MADE WITH TREES.TREES CAN FEEL PAIN TOO YOU KNOW.YOU MONSTERS