Do any one actually think it is possible to keep a blue whale, or any other bailine whale in captivity ? I think it is possible, but as they are extremly big, they will need a tank, that is at least 1 kilometer in every direction. They also need extremly much food, with many tons of krill every day. Anyway, the idea of having the worlds largest animal in a human controled setting have always intrigued me, and i think maybe one time in the future it will happen. Discuss your opinions belowe.
No, I can't see it ever happening. How would you supply enough food? How would you construct a tank capable of holding several million tons of water? How would you filter the water? I think it will never be.
I also don´t see the neccecarity of trying it ! The enormous amounts of money which it will take to build the enclosure and the enormous daily costs to keep the animal(s) alive can be used much better in protecting the species in it's natural habitat.
I can maybe- and it's a big maybe- see a young and juvenile bailine whale being kept temporarily in captivity but never for good. We've already shown it possible with two rescued Grey Whales but that's about it, probably never going to happen with a Blue Whale of any size. Even if a tank of that size was to be acheived all it would take is one dump into the glass by one of these behemoths and the whole thing would collapse. There's no ethics behind the project and simply should not be done. Besides the problems already stated, there's just no way a tank would ever be big enough for these animals to really move, dive, and be happy and how would they breed? Never going to happen, sorry. ~Thylo
No no no... you are all going about this all wrong. You just need to breed them down to a manageable size. Like what we did with wolves... I imagine at some point in history a caveperson was thinking how great it would be to carry around a wolf in their cavepurse and the other cavepeople are like, "Tuk-Tuk crazy talk putting wolf in cavepurse!"... and yet...
Seaworld has sucessfully kept and released two Grey Whales (Gigi II and J.J) along with a Brydes Whale. They greys where at san diego and the brydes at orlando.
While nothing is impossible, the cost of properly keeping anything larger than a full grown grey whale for its whole life would be absolutely insane. No man is rich enough and crazy enough to attempt it. Of course when we think of any baleen whale we think of something incredibly large but minke whales and pygmy right whales aren't that big as far as whales go. They wouldn't be that much more difficult than keeping a whale shark.
