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Related: About this forumSeaWorld Responds To California Drought By Draining Animal Tanks Halfway
The drought has made it into The Onion!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/seaworld-responds-to-california-drought-by-drainin,38386/
In an effort to conserve water amid the states severe drought, SeaWorld officials announced Tuesday that the southern California marine park had drained all of its animal tanks halfway. When facing a crisis this dire, everyone has a responsibility to make difficult sacrifices, which is why we at SeaWorld have decided to reduce the amount of water in all our whale, seal, and dolphin habitats by 50 percent, said SeaWorld San Diego spokesperson Patricia Leeds, adding that the marine animals only needed a couple of inches of water to survive and that evaporation could be prevented by simply covering many of the creatures with tarps. Our trainers are going to hook the orcas up to a winch and flip them over about once an hour to help their entire bodies stay moist. Theres still enough water in their enclosures, especially if the animals stay in one place like theyve been doing. Leeds added that implementing the new measures was not a problem for the company, as SeaWorlds management had already been planning on making such a change to its animal habitats anyway.
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SeaWorld Responds To California Drought By Draining Animal Tanks Halfway (Original Post)
KamaAina
Apr 2015
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. LMAO They almost got me this time.
Almost!
eppur_se_muova
(36,257 posts)2. Nice try, but they use OCEAN water ...
and are located close enough to shore to pump it directly out (and back).
Sorry, the obvious bad logic instantly spoiled the joke for me.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)3. actually the joke still works
the idea behind the joke is not that Sea World would actually claim to do something environmentally friendly.
but that they'd claim that something that wasn't animal or environmentally friendly actually was when they were probably just doing it to save money.