'A Perverse New Low': Unfortunate Trainers Given Mission to Satisfy Adolescent Orca's Out-of-Control Libido
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Animal welfare: In an abandoned marine park in Antibes, France, two orcas still live, one of which is sexually stimulated by a keeper.
'A perverse new low': Unfortunate trainers given mission to satisfy adolescent orca's out-of-control libido
What do you do with a horny male teen orca? Ideally, the answer would be to find a horny female teen orca and see if there’s any chemistry. Sadly, for some truly unfortunate orca trainers in France, there’s only one option, and it isn’t pretty. Marine Zoo Marineland Antibes closed its doors in January in the wake of new animal welfare laws banning the use of dolphins and whales in zoo shows. This left the fates of Wikie, 23, and her 11-year-old …
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The French government and animal-rights groups have yet to agree where orcas Wikie, 24 and Keijo, 11 should be moved, leaving the aquatic mammals in limbo, the BBC said.

While Marineland assures that it is a matter of regulating the sexual impulses of the orca, NGOs suspect sperm sales to other parks.
Marineland executives say satisfying the animal once a month is a necessary step because Keijo has entered adolescence and is struggling with increasingly strong sexual desires.
The images filmed and then aired by the NGO Tide Breakers shock: there is Keijo, the male orca of Marineland d'Antibes water park, closed since January, likely to be masturbated by a caregiver in his basin. The NGO denounces a "shocky" practice.
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