Blackfish struck an emotional chord over the plight of a traumatised performing whale, prompting real change.
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Boycotts can bring backlashes – and back tracking.
The history of displaying exotic animals seems to be one of evolving public expectations about what constitutes acceptable conditions. Is it a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same?
No one wants animals to suffer, but it is notoriously difficult to measure their welfare.
Documentaries are fragile things, easily blown into obscurity or silenced by the sheer weight of corporate power.
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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University of York
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Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor of Marketing, Keele University
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Stirling
