• According to the association One Voice, one of the orcas of Marineland would be in "poor health" and would require "urgent veterinary care".

  • An "accusation as unfounded as it is slanderous", sweeps the park which broadcast, in response, a video of the animal in question playing with a careful.

For One Voice, which quotes a marine biologist and a veterinarian, one of the orcas of Marineland would be in "bad health" and would require "an urgent veterinary care".

The association even announced Tuesday the filing of a complaint for acts of cruelty.

An "accusation as unfounded as it is slanderous", sweeps the park which broadcast, in response, a video of the animal in question playing with a careful.

“Our priority mission is to guarantee the health and well-being of animals.

We thus carry out this mission every day of the year with professionalism and passion ”, wrote Marineland on Facebook, above a video dated Tuesday.

Moana, the 10-year-old male killer whale, appears there alongside a member of the park team, interacting with her.

"Very worrying sub-dermal lesions"

However, according to One Voice, which produced a report by Dr. Ingrid Visser, the cetacean would suffer, like its uncle Inouk, from "sub-dermal lesions […] very worrying". Photos taken between 2016 and this month show "an escalation of this damage," notes the New Zealand marine biologist. A situation which would be, according to her, the result of "acute and chronic stressors associated with unnatural confinement in an extremely poorly maintained facility".

"How can a so-called scientist make a veterinary diagnosis without auscultating the animal?"

"Asks the park, recalling that no complaint from One Voice against him" has been successful "and that" Marineland has never been condemned to anything ".

"The inspections carried out very regularly by state services have underlined the good conditions in which the animals are housed", also defends the management regularly attacked by anti-captivity associations.

The future of cetaceans in the parks in question

Last week, parliament definitively adopted a bill against animal abuse that includes a ban on zoos keeping cetaceans within five years.

Unless they are allowed to research them.

A text that Marineland does not wish to comment "as long as the ministerial decrees have not been published".

One Voice judges it for its “insufficient” side.

The association fears that the orcas will be transferred to China or, if they are kept there, wonders "to study what exactly?"

How do they suffer in isolation?

She would prefer that cetaceans be transferred to "sanctuaries" at sea.

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