The Marineland park near Niagara Falls has asked the Canadian government for emergency funding to feed and care for its whales, saying euthanasia is otherwise imminent.
Your second sentence is correct, but your first sentence is incorrect. Particularly for males, leaving their birth pod and joining a new one is standard orca practice.
I believe belugas have tendencies to move to different pods. They would interact with wild belugas, and how could they possibly understand the consequences/differences of interacting or following other belugas?
The odds of their survival in the wild are against them. Marineland can’t afford to feed them, it would be more than 10x that cost to train them to have a chance of survival in the wild. Marineland can’t afford to humanely release them into the wild.
Damn. They’re pack animals tho. Maybe better chance in a group?
Intigration into a pod is almost impossible tho. You can’t force a pod to accept a new member.
Your second sentence is correct, but your first sentence is incorrect. Particularly for males, leaving their birth pod and joining a new one is standard orca practice.
There’s 30 of them, though.
Aren’t they already a pod?
I believe belugas have tendencies to move to different pods. They would interact with wild belugas, and how could they possibly understand the consequences/differences of interacting or following other belugas?
Is it crueler than euthanizing them? They don’t have a chance of survival?
The odds of their survival in the wild are against them. Marineland can’t afford to feed them, it would be more than 10x that cost to train them to have a chance of survival in the wild. Marineland can’t afford to humanely release them into the wild.