5/22/2023 0 Comments Alone together turkle![]() ![]() Technology has allowed some of us to work, learn, shop, and socialize from home, exchanging the rough, natural edges of life for the smooth glass of our screens. Still, after a year of social distancing, we might resemble lonely creatures drifting around in our tanks. Our pandemic isolation is voluntary, altruistic, and temporary. The cost of their confinement is a diminished internal existence. Their stress levels soar, their dorsal fins droop, their parenting skills decline they get bored, they self-harm, they lash out. ![]() In the relative monotony of an artificial habitat, with their social development stifled by family separation and their wanderings limited to a concrete tank, orcas go a little mad. ![]() But, as the neuroscientist Lori Marino has explained, they’re different in captivity. In the wild, orcas are a dominant species, apex predators that navigate a vast aquatic world in sophisticated family groups. ![]()
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