Summary Of Free The Killer Whale By Jane Vellez-Mitchell

If animals are held in captivity, the enclosures they are put in have to meet a certain standard of living. In the article “Free the Killer Whale,” by Jane Vellez-Mitchell, states that “Tilikum has spent more than a quarter of a century swimming in circles, in a space that critics say would be equivalent to keeping a human being in a bathtub,” (Sources G). It’s important to consider this mistreatment of animals, they do not do well in unnatural enclosures. In this instance a pen that’s extremely small for the size of an orca whale. Enclosures that do not meet the animals’ needs will negatively affect it’s well being. PETA, in “Zoos:Pitiful Prisons,” says that “Precious funds that should be used to provide more humane conditions for animals