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The False Killer Whale Is Away At Hawaii Park
Kina, a fake assassin who once worked for the U.S. Navy, has been living in a small fuel cell in Sea Life Park in Hawaii for 17 inches. It is flat - much too flat for her to go diving. Keiko Conservation co-founder Natalie Parra compared the dimensions of the tanks to a hotelpool.
" However, Kina, who is now 40 years old, has another doubtful distinction: Kina listlessly living in Seaife Park is just the latest part of an extreme hard time. Formerly living in the great outdoors, she was taken prisoner off the Iki Island coastline in Japan in 1987.
On Iki Island, what has occurred is similar to what is now taking place in Taiji, Japan. At both locations, Japonese fishers drove whales and other whales into bays, chose certain creatures for capture and killed the remainder, turning the waters of the whales bloody blush. At the end of the 1980' the drift fishing on the island of Iki was definitively stopped, but the precise cause for this is still a puzzle.
" China was one of the captive species on the island of Iki in 1987 and was first taken to Ocean Park, a marine park in Hong Kong where there have been numerous dead. Then in November 1987, the US Marine bought Kina and took her to the marine base in Kaneohe Bay Hawaii, where Kina was living in a bunker with two porpoises, BJ and Boris.
Parra said the Marines used all three of them for sonar research, although the detail of this research remains inconclusive. Kina's lives again underwent a change in 1993 - Kina, BJ and Boris were taken to a marine cage on Coconut Island, where the University of Hawaii used the three creatures for echo location research.
"After all, it was a very inspiring life," Parra said. Corresponding to Parra, it took the Univeristy of Hawaii about $900,000 a year to keep Kina, BJ and Boris, and the Univeristy ruled to get rid of them. "Said that Seaife Park has ascended and said,'We'll take her with us', but in fact they simply sold her to the highest bidder who just happens to be Seaife Park," Parra said, although she added that the Universtity of Hawaii would not tell how much she was on pay.
However, the University of Hawaii strongly disputes that China was "auctioned off". Oahu Marine Park is a favourite marine park where visitors can enjoy swimming with dolphins and sealions. But since Kina arrived she is hiding in a shell at the end of the park from the people.
For Parra this seems unbelievably weird. But why would a naval park want Kina anyway? Sea Life Park in a press announcement said that the specimens will be used for research, but Parra is not sure if this has been done. "They were not sure if they got it as a special offer and we didn't really want it, and they just wanted the two porpoises for shows," Parra said.
" Cathy Goeggel, Hawaiian Animal Rights Chairwoman, also said that Sea Life Park never seemed to receive permission to move China from Coconut Island to Sea Life Park, which is generally demanded by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) when moving livestock within Hawaii. This is what Goeggel found out when she asked the HDOA for permission from the Freedom of Information Act.
" The Sea Life Park is said to have received a "retroactive permit" for the migration of the two porpoises in April 2016, but they have not yet submitted a license for China, Parra said. "Sea Life Park has always received approvals under both the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Welfare Act and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Mammal Protection Act," she added.
Aside from the permissions, Parra thinks that Kina is unhappy in Sea Life Park. "but now she is in the next quadratic tank," Parra said. "The Animal Welfare Act stipulates that "all marine animals kept outside must be provided with either physical or chemical shelters from the elements or exposure to the sun.
" That is, Kina would suffer in the sun and would probably be burnt. Past drones shots as well as current photographs show that Kina's fuel cell is dirty - much dirty than the other "on display" fuel cells in the marine park. "Empty The Tanks Hawaii is an environment science company focused on the inspection of safe drinking waters and ensure safe drinking wells.
"Compared to Kina's swimming pools to the one they use with the people above, the above mentioned swimming pools are much clean, as there is no colouring that is caused by a filter system or regular clean. Kina's swimming pools are almost verdant, a clear indication of surplus nitrate (often from waste) in the well.
" Kinah also has little everyday gain. The Sea Life Park held by Palace Entertainment has been quoted several times in the past for not giving Kina and the other creatures shadows from the light, according to the Freedom of Information Act document. They are quoted all the way for Lolita, but I think they're trying to spend the fine instead of solving the problem," Parra said.
SeAlFLife Park did not react to a query for a coment. The Sea Life Park seems to do everything to hide Kina from the general population. It not only holds her in a shell at the back of the park, but is also said to have caused staff of the Oceanic Institute (which Kina can see from her land adjacent to Sea Life Park) not to share it.
"They have all the Oceanic Institute trainees and employees signed some kind of NDA, and they can't give out pictures or video of her," Parra said. "In October 2016, members of Empty the Tanks Hawaii succeeded in taking a few pictures of Kina in Sea Life Park itself.
"You just looked over the open gate and took some pictures and video of her and left," Parra said. Following the publication of these photographs and video clips, Sea Life Park seemed to increase safety, and they were never again able to get to Kina's Petty.
Approximately two week ago, Parra sent a crew of wildlife photographs on a natural path over the marine park to take another look at the lone fake killer-wafer. Parra said the fotographers spend almost two hrs on the trailer, but Kina hardly ever moves the whole of it. "You said that all the while they were up there, she logged quite accurately," Parra said.
" Goeggel even said with the interactions of her goalkeepers from time to time that she didn't think Kina was having much fun. "She' s bad at the moment," Goeggel said. "Because of Kinaina' s old life and everything she's been through, both Parra and Goeggel are hopeful that things will turn out differently for her - and quickly. "â??We trust to divide her history enough to put enough effort on the Ministry of Agriculture to improve the picture and send her into retirement,â? Parra said.
" "She' s the last live fake killer-wage to survive the island of Iki, and her whole existence was so terribly miserable that we want her to go to a sanctuary," Goeggel said. Dolphin Project promoter Ric O'Barry also thinks that China's position must be changed. "where the dolphin are respectable and sheltered.
Kina's tale must be recounted. "If you want to help Kina, send an e-mail to the keeper at Sea Life Park and ask him to give Kina better life and a decent pension. Or you can help other marine creatures by making a contribution to Dolphin Project. See Kina's video in her fuel cell at Sea Life Park in Hawaii: