Every whale is an island

 　　I've been hooked on orcas ever since I accidentally watched a documentary about them on B-site. In the documentary, this huge, black-and-white ocean lord looks like a cold killer who kills at the drop of a hat.

　　In fact, the opening of the mouth has become the voice of the cute calling monster, so many whale suckers are called "fat tiger". With a few tons of volume, but a kind of tiger head tiger brain cute, this contrast has attracted countless people to it flocked to.

　　I am also one of them. So, taking advantage of the May Day holiday, my friend and I went to a marine park in the university town.

　　There, I waited for hours in a long line and finally saw the "fat tiger" I had been waiting for. It was a very small orca, rolling back and forth in the huge pool with its naive look projected on the big screen behind it. It swam fast, navigating through the clear pool water, showing its black fins.

　　"It looks so lonely, how boring it is just staying here every day! Look how pathetic it is to start performing in the oceanarium at such a young age!" My friend suddenly turned to me and lamented.

　　When I heard her words, the smile I had just been amused by the orcas faded, and the information about orcas in my mind became clear in a flash.

　　There are family groups of orcas, and like humans, their young need to learn to hunt and live under the tutelage of adult orcas; they are also afraid of being alone and need companionship, just like humans.

　　I stood there looking at the young orca, a lonely figure with an indescribable lonesomeness, which should have been swimming in the vast ocean instead of being confined here, performing day after day against its nature in order to entertain humans.

　　I have seen many animals in the zoo, golden monkeys, elephants, all kinds of snakes, and northeast tigers, lions, etc.. At that time I thought they should be very enjoyable, after all, in the zoo to receive feeding, being good food and drink in captivity, do not have to hunt in the wild hard, do not have to run around like people in order to live.

　　I didn't realize how wrong I was until now.

　　The beasts that live in nature are wild, but because they have been locked up in zoos for a long time, they have lost their original hunting skills, worn out the wild, once people release them, they can still survive the cruelty of nature? Few and far between.

　　In 2013, the documentary "Black Whale" was released, which recorded the sad song of the orca Tilakum's life. This is a killer whale with three lives on its back, captured in Iceland when it was about two years old, and after nearly a year in captivity in a small Icelandic oceanarium, it was forced to begin a 34-year-long show.

　　In the documentary, Tilakum, who suffered long captivity, was unable to communicate with other orcas. Eventually, it developed a mental illness and killed its former trainer.

　　How is this killer whale that killed a human being not a tragedy caused by humans?

　　Although humans stand at the top of the food chain, they are never the masters of nature, and everything in the world is symbiotic and coexistent. Some unscrupulous businessmen want to break the rules of nature, and humans may suffer the backlash of nature. Tilakum is the best example.

　　A whale should be an island, a group of whales is an ocean, upright in the cloudy sea, undisturbed, is where it belongs.