Orca Researcher Dr. Ingrid Visser Visits Orca Morgan in Loro Parque

Dr. Ingrid Visser (Orca Research Trust / Free Morgan Foundation) has just returned from marine entertainment park Loro Parque in Tenerife where wild-caught Norwegian orca Morgan is currently being held. Here's what Dr. Visser has to say about her visit: 

Morgan’s Plight Continues:

I’ve  just been to visit Morgan and was saddened to see that her life hasn’t improved. Despite us alerting Loro Parque to the issues that we had noted and presented in our evidence to Court on the 1st of November 2012, nothing appears to have changed for
Morgan.  I observed her chewing on concrete and her teeth with blue paint on them.  She was also still bashing her head against the concrete. She has some sort of a wound above her right eye – the source of which is unclear – but it may be a secondary infection from a rake mark, a growth of some sort or a raw wound from bashing her face on the concrete.  The damage tissue on her lower jaw (termed hypertrophic tissue) is still enlarged and I
photographed an open wound on the tip of it.  Additionally, Keto, the adult male is continually shadowing Morgan and harassing her.  It is clear that Loro Parque is pushing hard for him to impregnate her.  With the verdict for Morgan’s court case to be read tomorrow, we can only hope that Morgan will be given the legal right to be taken out of the ‘abusement park’ Loro Parque.
 
- Dr Ingrid N. Visser, Free Morgan Foundation Expert

Photo: Wound over Morgan's eye from an unknown cause. This image was taken  on
the 10th December 2012 by Dr. Ingrid Visser.