At Sea World in Orlando, Florida on Wednesday Feb. 24th tragedy struck. One of the trainers, Dawn Brancheau was killed when a killer whale by the name of Tilikum dragged her underwater and drowned her. Visitors say that Dawn was standing on a platform when the 12,000 killer whale came barreling up behind her, grabbed her ponytail in his mouth and dragged her into the pool. Many people question whether SeaWorld should let Tilikum free or put it down. SeaWorld mentioned that they can't let him free because he was raised in captivity so he would not be able to survive on his own and they will not put him down because he is involved in much of the breeding that happens at SeaWorld and is the mate of several other whales there.
SeaWorld has postponed its killer whale show until all of the trainers have gone over the safety procedures and have also understood why Tilikum acted the way he did. This killer whale in particular was know to be involved in two other deaths in the past decade. In 1991 a woman fell in the pool in British Columbia. In 1999, a body of a man was found on Tilikum at the same SeaWorld in Orlando. The man had been said to die from hypothermia. Although the 1991 death was completely Tilikums fault. This recent accident was very tragic.
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I forgot to say that the media is twisting this and making it seem like this killer whale is out to kill people. If you watch this youtube clip you will see how the news is making things worse than they need to be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz_SHumjgPQ
ReplyDeleteI dont think people should be in those pools with the killers whales to begin with. I am an animal activist and I do not believe that whales should be kep in captivity like that. They are meant to be free out in the ocean where they belong with their pack. If they have the capacity to attack human beings as prey then human beings should stay away from them
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