Destroyed? It’s a Killer Whale! It was captured and brought into captivity! It is only doing what its instincts tell it to do. Just release the thing. I’m not an animal rights person at all, but this was not the animals fault.
I wonder when he was captured? If he had lived in the ocean for 10-12 years before capture I’d return him to the ocean. It used to be thought good to have animals in zoos because the public never got a chance to observe them. Today they are all over the TV (Nature, Public Broadcasting, animal planet, etc.) We don’t need them to be in zoos for the public to view or scientists to study. If they are endangered then programs in a truly natural environment should be used.
I think our “need,’ for zoos is over.