statement. seaworld has been around for 40 years. if it wasn t for seaworld nobody would care about killer whales. no one cared about them before seaworld got one in captivity for the first time. it s because of places like seaworld that people care about these animals. they take very good care of their animals. it won t make sense for them to not to. i think this whole case was ridiculous. as far as david kirby and his book is concerned he utilized interviews from animal activists from hsus which is a animal activist group which if you go to their website they state they want to close down oceanariums. they brought him in as wait. megyn: i m up against a hard break. i want to ask you if this whale had wanted to kill this trainer she would have. absolutely. i mean she did not want to kill him. she could have done it very easily. if you noticed there is not even any cuts on his feet.
the statement that says, the only thing people learn from visiting a seaworld theme park is how when 12 million people visited seaworld parks last year and 90% of the folks said it was the most incredible experience of their life. also when you talk about the whales that are there, 95% of the whales there were born at seaworld. that says something. like most 99% of our animals at zoological parks are born at the parks. we don t pluck them from the wild. $67 million dollars was spent last year at seaworld, the marine mammals park and many hundreds of animals they release to the wild. if it wasn t for seaworld animals like the manatee in florida might not be in existence right now. i know what seaworld does. i go there as a visitor and a person who loves to watch that park and see what they do. larry: ingrid, don t you think the public loves this, though? we ve had this tragedy but doesn t the public respond to this? let me say, larry, there are
we don t pluck them from the wild. the work that seaworld has done by the way, larry, $67 million dollars was spent last year at seaworld, the marine mammals park and many hundreds of animals they release to the wild. if it wasn t for seaworld animals like the manatee in florida might not be in existence right now. i know what seaworld does. i go there as a visitor and a person who loves to watch that park and see what they do. larry: ingrid, don t you think the public loves this, though? we ve had this tragedy but doesn t the public respond to this? let me say, larry, there are two victims here. this whale who was captured in the wild when he was 2 years old and spent a quarter of a century in this bathtub-like existence as bob says. he s a male whale. he s raging with hormones. he wants to swim. he wants to mate. he wants to have freedom like all living creatures.