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Another young greyhound was run to his death at Mandurah. Dog: Formula Fire Age: 3 years, 7 months Trainer: Lexia Isaac Date of death: 13 October 2026 Injury: Fractures to right hind leg. Months pass as we await WA’s greyhound racing inquiry outcome. Meanwhile, dogs continue to suffer and die. Sick of dogs dying for gambling and entertainment? Write to your local MP. Tell them it’s time to make greyhound racing history. #EndGreyhoundRacing #FreeTheHounds #PetsNotBets
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4 SEA LIONS DEAD IN UNDER 3 MONTHS! ONE SUFFOCATED TO DEATH! @flsealionencounters PLEASE CLICK THE LINK IN OUR BIO TO HELP ! Bruce (23), Mahi (15), Sake (14) and Marina (12) died between June and August 2026 under the care of Sea Lion Splash / @flsealionencounters OFFICIAL CAUSES OF DEATH, ACCORDING TO NOAA RECORDS: BRUCE, 23 — Asphyxiation from a tracheal obstruction caused by an infiltrating lipoma. A tumor obstructed his airway, and he suffocated to death. According to information provided to TideBreakers, no veterinarian was on-site, and veterinary consultations were conducted over the phone. Serious questions must be answered about whether timely treatment could have prevented his suffering. MAHI, 15 & SAKE, 14 — Both died ON THE SAME DAY from pulmonary edema (fluid buildup in their lungs). MARINA, 12 — Acute stress hypothermia, a fatal drop in body temperature. FOUR DEATHS. THREE MONTHS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Help us shut this horror show down and relocate the two surviving sea lions to safety! Easton and Salsa remain at the company’s facility in Myakka City, Florida, where they are reportedly confined to deteriorating backyard-style concrete pools with dangerously contaminated water, suffering from eye problems, skin lesions and poor physical condition. Despite multiple deaths and serious animal welfare concerns, the Myakka City facility continues to offer paid interactions with the two surviving sea lions, Easton and Salsa. SICK ANIMALS, CRUMBLING POOLS, CONTAMINATED WATER AND NO VETERINARIAN ON-SITE. HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE? HOW MANY MORE MUST SUFFER AND DIE BEFORE THIS OPERATION IS SHUT DOWN? We demand an immediate investigation, accountability for these deaths, an end to animal exploitation and URGENT RELOCATION OF EASTON AND SALSA! USDA: AnimalCare@usda.gov ac.complaints@usda.gov NOAA: contact.nmfs.ole.sed@noaa.gov SHARE THIS. DEMAND ACTION. NO MORE DEATHS! Photo and video credit: flsealionencounters
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Stand in front of an elephant enclosure long enough and you’ll probably see a slow, rhythmic sway, side to side, over and over. Most people read it as a quirk — something elephants just do. It isn’t. It’s called a stereotypy: a repetitive, purposeless movement with no external cause. It’s also something wild elephants essentially don’t do — stereotypic behavior is considered specific to captivity, not seen in animals free to roam, forage, and socialize on their own terms. The most rigorous look at how common it’s become in U.S. zoos comes from a 2016 epidemiological study (Greco, Meehan, Hogan, Leighty, Mellen, Mason & Mench, PLOS ONE) that filmed 89 elephants across 39 AZA-accredited zoos. 85.4 percent performed stereotypic behavior during the day; 68.8 percent did it at night. By daytime, it was the second most frequent behavior these elephants engaged in, after feeding. The same study is specific about what raises and lowers the risk — which matters, because it means this isn’t just “some elephants are more anxious than others.” Time spent housed alone raised it. Each additional inter-zoo transfer raised it further. What brought it down: time with juvenile elephants, more engagement with keepers, bigger social groups. Here’s the part that matters most: even the elephants with the best of those conditions still showed it. The study’s own authors are blunt about why — once stereotypic behavior develops, it may not be possible to eliminate it completely. Better management can lower how often it happens. It can’t undo the underlying change. A related 2024 paper (Doyle, Rally, O’Brien, Tennison, Marino & Jacobs, PeerJ) adds that in some elephants, it isn’t occasional — it can consume up to 20 percent of their entire waking day. Researchers trace the mechanism to disrupted dopamine and serotonin signaling, the same systems that govern voluntary movement, worn down by chronic, understimulating captivity. Swaying isn’t a personality trait. It isn’t something a better enclosure fixes once it’s already happened. It’s what captivity does to an elephant’s nervous system — and the damage doesn’t check out when the elephant does.
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Carina died on July 2nd. She'd gone down — unable to stand without help — three times in five days. According to a submission sent to us by someone identifying themselves as a former Busch Gardens Tampa Bay elephant keeper, the response fell short each time: incomplete overnight observation, staff shortages, and protocol breaches during exactly the emergencies where none of that can be allowed to happen. The submitter's own words: "it is clear that Busch Gardens is not an appropriate facility to house elephants and should not receive more from any other facility." They say that conclusion is shared by nearly ten former members of the elephant team from the past decade — not outside critics, but people who did this work. Busch Gardens didn't wait to find out if they were right. This has been reported to both USDA and AZA, and it echoes a pattern this page has documented for months. The elephants who needed that warning heeded are already there. Sign emails to Busch Gardens & the AZA, comment on their social media posts, and more — link in bio: 🔗 a.chilli.club/buschgardens
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DOLPHIN FALLS OUT OF TANK DURING LIVE SHOW AT CHIMELONG, CHINA! On October 2, 2026, a dolphin at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, China, suddenly flew out of the performance pool and landed on a hard concrete platform in front of horrified spectators. The dolphin was visibly struggling, desperately moving its body as it lay helpless outside the water. BUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS EQUALLY DISTURBING. As the dolphin struggled, the show continued. Footage appears to show trainers directing other dolphins to perform, drawing the audience’s attention away from the animal in distress. Staff eventually used a stretcher to remove the stranded dolphin. Chimelong claims the dolphin suffered no serious injuries, but no independent veterinary report has been made publicly available to substantiate that claim. TideBreakers has contacted both the park and the relevant authorities demanding answers about the dolphin’s injuries, current health condition and veterinary care following the accident. 📸: 大至宝宝 Xiaohongshu ID: 49734796515
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– A heart that feels for every living being is a heart truly alive.🤍 – Choose compassion. Choose kindness. Choose life. ♻️ – Let compassion guide your choices.🍀 – Be Vegetarian. Be Vegan. Be Kind. 🌱 – Because every life deserves to live.🙏🏼 - Follow :- @human.paradise.truth #animals #nature #compassion #reelitfeelit #instagood
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FYI, sushi salmon is almost always Tassie salmon More reading below: Seafood giant Tassal to begin injecting salmon with the antibiotic oxytetracycline: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-07/tassal-salmon-florfenicol-permit-wait-antibiotics/107233684 The realities of intensive fish farming: https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/farmed-animals/fish-farms/ https://thehumaneleague.org/article/factory-fish-farming Outbreak Summer 25/26: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/tasmania-salmon-florfenicol-antibiotics-licence-revoked/106404606 Outbreak Summer 24/25: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/24/calls-for-answers-after-tasmanian-salmon-die-in-macquarie-harbour-fish-farms
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ELEPHANT WELFARE CRISIS AT BUSCH GARDENS TAMPA CONTINUES TWO ELEPHANTS ARE DEAD.
TWO MORE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN. Fireworks. Noise. Vibration. Stress. Busch Gardens’ elephants live inside a theme park, surrounded by roller coasters, construction, ride machinery, screaming crowds, loud music, fireworks and constant vibration. In 2022, Rosie, a 54-year-old African elephant at Busch Gardens Tampa, went down during a fireworks event and was unable to stand for more than five hours. Former keepers say she suffered serious injuries and was unable to reach the barn, leaving her exposed to fireworks again and again during her recovery. Staff were told not to discuss what happened, and a request to stop the fireworks while Rosie recovered was denied. Rosie was euthanized in 2024. Carina was a 54-year-old Asian elephant described as generally healthy, with only normal age-related changes. Then, in 2026, she went down three times within just four days.After the third emergency, she was euthanized. Two elephants are dead. There has been no comprehensive independent investigation, the fireworks have not stopped, and now two more elephants have been brought into the same environment where serious welfare concerns remain unresolved. Schottzie, 50, and Jati, in her late 30s, are two of the oldest female elephants in the country and are now past breeding age. Instead of remaining at Cincinnati Zoo’s newly expanded elephant habitat, they were transferred to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. TideBreakers is joining the Weeping Elephant Project in demanding an independent investigation, full transparency and accountability — and calling on Busch Gardens to stop the fireworks that continue to expose elephants to unnecessary noise, vibration and stress. Please don’t look away. Click the link in our bio, take action and be a voice for these elephants.
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Coffs Coast Wildlife (not) Sanctuary is promoting a new “Dolphin Dreamtime” experience combining dolphins, conservation, cultural storytelling and an opportunity to pat the dolphins (see comments). ✨If we’re teaching children about “CONNECTION”, shouldn’t we be showing them that respect sometimes means keeping our hands to ourselves? ✨And if the word “DREAMTIME” is being used to frame an experience about cultural connection and respect for dolphins, perhaps it is worth asking whether the commercialised act of “PATTING dolphins” belongs in that story at all. Dolphins are not pet dogs. ❗️If you believe dolphins should be observed and respected - not touched, patted or used for in-water encounters, please contact CCWS and let them know. ➡️ Share this post to help spread the message: dolphins are not our pets to pat. #StopTheCircus #animaljusticeparty #emptythetanks #enddolphincaptivity
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A reminder of the scale of this injustice. 💔 #veganism #animalrights #pigs #farmanimals #ethics
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This very disturbing footage was filmed at the protected Ras Al Hadd / Ras Al Jinz sea-turtle nesting area in Oman by Vadym Oleynik, a Ukrainian fitness influencer, who was visiting with his partner, Olena Kravchenko. The footage shows Oleynik climbing onto and riding on the shell of an adult green sea turtle, laughing as she struggles to move forward and tries to get away across the sand. Other footage shows Kravchenko also posing on the turtle, while Oleynik is seen handling a newly hatched turtle. According to media reports, volunteers or nest monitors were present nearby, yet no one visibly intervened while the turtle was being climbed on and handled. On September 27, Oman’s Environmental Authority said it was “closely following” the circulating footage and described it as showing “a tourist engaging in acts that disturb sea turtles” in violation of wildlife-protection laws and regulations. The Authority also confirmed that it had “taken the necessary legal action against the individual concerned.” Ras Al Hadd / Ras Al Jinz is one of Oman’s most important protected turtle nesting areas. Omani regulations specifically prohibit touching, approaching or disturbing nesting turtles, and authorities also warn people not to pick up or interfere with hatchlings. After the footage triggered widespread outrage, Oleynik deleted the original video from his social media account and made his Instagram account, followed by around 200,000 people, private. He later apologized in an Instagram Story, saying he had not “seen the rules,” calling his actions a “mistake,” and saying he “didn’t want to hurt the turtle or do anything bad to it.” We are urging authorities in Oman to ensure that wildlife-protection laws are fully enforced and that appropriate measures are taken to prevent behavior like this from happening again. A nesting sea turtle is already undergoing an exhausting and vulnerable process. Wild animals must be respected. Keep your distance. Never touch, sit on, restrain or handle sea turtles or their hatchlings.
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Cincinnati Zoo just opened the largest elephant habitat in its history — four acres, built for a young, multi-generational breeding herd. Then it sent its two oldest females somewhere else entirely. Schottzie is 50. She’s spent almost her whole life at the Cincinnati Zoo, arriving from Copenhagen at age three. Jati, in her late 30s, was born wild in Malaysia and has called Cincinnati home since 1991. Neither fit the plan for the zoo’s new breeding-focused habitat — so both were sent to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, a theme park ringed by roller coasters, fireworks, and crowds, where a veterinarian warned years ago that no more elephants should go. Older elephants don’t need spectacle. They need calm, quiet, soft ground, and staff and space built around aging bodies — not a stop on the way out of a breeding program. Schottzie and Jati gave Cincinnati most of their lives. They deserved better than being reassigned to a life of more chaos and stress once they no longer fit the plan. Image credit: Cincinnati Zoo Take action in 30 seconds: 🔗 a.chilli.club/buschgardens Link in bio. And it’s a great time to donate, as every dollar is matched right now!
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