Sunday, April 5, 2015

Killer whale killers – a review of US court cases on captive orcas

I had several requests for copies of my presentation on the various US court cases related to captive orcas, that I recently gave at the European Cetacean Society conference in Malta. So for everyone who wanted it, here is a copy of the presentation.





























If you refer to this presentation, please use the citation: Parsons, E.C.M. 2015. Killer whale killers – a review of US court cases on captive orcas. Presented at 29thAnnual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 23-25 March 2015, Malta.

Supplementary material can be found in this peer-reviewed paper.

An article on the science behind the movie Blackfish can be found on the leading marine science blog Southern Fried Science.