May 16
One of the most interesting things about animals under human care is that we often get to see them from a perspective we’d never get to experience in the wild.
Especially for species that are very socially complex (such as cetaceans, primates, and elephants), we get to see the depth of their social bonds in real time. Some nights, I’ll stay up for hours reading about captive whales. I’ll read about their incredibly strong bonds, the intricacies of their personality. We get to see how deeply emotional they are — and how they’ve changed each others lives.