It’s a basic requirement for accessing their tails and genital slits, and other husbandry. The animals already know how to roll over. “It was rustic, latex gloves and KY Jelly, as I recall. One former SeaWorld orca trainer who spoke with TOP on the condition of anonymity, shared their experiences: Today, cow vaginas are no longer used, just good old latex gloves and KY Jelly. “Early in the morning, the animal-care crew would take hot-water-filled cow vaginas and masturbate the males in the back tanks,” says John Hall, a former scientist at SeaWorld. The first mention of cow vaginas and SeaWorld’s artificial insemination program seems to come in an article titled, “The Killer In The Pool,” by Tim Zimmermann of Outside magazine: That said, they may very well have been artificial cow vaginas. In the early years of Killer Whale Artificial Insemination (AI), SeaWorld DID use cow vaginas. After collected, it allows the sperm and ova of captive killer whales to be stored by a technique known as “genome resource banking.” The male, positioned belly up and adjacent to the edge of the pool, is trained to present his penis. It also eliminates the costly need to transport orcas between parks for the pupose of breeding.Īs far as killer whales are concerned, the semen is collected from an adult male trained to voluntarily ejaculate. This has allowed the company to avoid the unpopular and illegal practice of harvesting Orcas from the wild and purchasing them from the market, from countries like Japan. The practice of AI was developed by SeaWorld for the purpose of increasing its captive stock of Killer Whales. In humans, it is used as assisted reproductive technology.Īrtificial insemination is widely used for livestock breeding, as used by cattle breeders. – We all know that AI is a process in which male sperm is collected and inserted into the cervix of a female human or animal, for the purpose of impregnating the female by using means other than sex. So what are the facts? The Orca Project consulted with some former SeaWorld killer whale trainers to learn about SeaWorld’s Artificial Insemination Program (AI) and to find out just how they obtain the prized samples, or “white gold” from their orcas. Lee would be wise to spend more time checking his facts.” Jacobs adds: “Whatever his views on SeaWorld, Mr. In the letter, published on TMZ.com, Lee complained that the Whale, named Tilikum, “is being kept away from people and in a tank that is much too small for him”, because he is their “chief sperm bank”.įred Jacobs, SeaWorld’s VP of Communications fired back at Lee the following day citing “The process of collecting semen for doesn’t differ in any meaningful way from the techniques employed in managing livestock or other species for zoological display.” Mr. In a letter he shot off to SeaWorld on December 7th, the Motley Crüe drummer has written to the president of Florida marine theme park, SeaWorld, to complain about the way they are treating one of their Killer Whales. Tommy Lee wasn’t totally wrong when he mentioned cow vagina use for SeaWorld’s artificial insemination program.
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