this guy has a proven track record of killing people. he s clearly a liability to the institution. why keep him around? well, it s quite simple to answer, and that is that his semen is worth a lot of money. over the years tilikum has been one of the main breeding whales at seaworld. which is brilliant because they can inseminate way more female whales because they can get his sperm and freeze it and he s basically operating as a sperm bank. in a reputable breeding program, rule number one is you certainly would not breed an animal that has shown a history of aggression towards humans. imagine if you had a pit bull who had killed. that animal would have likely been put down. but in the entire seaworld collection, it s like 54% of the whales in seaworld s collection now have tilikum s genes.
there were whales chasing each other. and eventually the trainers decided that they had to stop the show because they couldn t get the whales under control. tilikum was in the back pool set up to do a dine with shamu performance with dawn. likely she saw what had gone on during the main show, and so she had probably felt more pressure to do a good show. when you watch the whole video, you can see that tilikum is actually really with dawn in the beginning of the video. there s a couple of behaviors she asked him to do where tilikum jumps right in and does exactly what she asks him to do. there seemed to be a point in the session where things went south, so to speak. and my humble opinion, it was at that missed bridge whistle
Transcripts for CNN Blackfish 20150816 02:17:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
it was seaworld by name that was told do not come back to washington to capture whales. without missing a beat, they went from washington to iceland and began capturing there. i ve been part of a revolution and two change of presidents in central and south america and seen some things that it s hard to believe, but this is the worst thing that i ve ever done is hunt that whale.
that s the crux of the osha case. stay out of proximity with the animals and you won t get killed. it will have a ripple effect through the whole industry. this was national headline news. seaworld s whale performances may never be the same. right now the theme park is arguing in court to keep the whale trainers in the water. something osha says is extremely dangerous. these are wild animals and they are unpredictable because we don t speak whale. we don t speak whale, we don t speak tiger, we don t speak monkey. tempers flared between two sides today when osha s attorneys suggested seaworld only made changes after dawn brancheau s death outraged the public. osha doesn t want the trainers going back in the water without a physical barrier between them and the whales. being in close proximity to these top predators is too dangerous. they won t be getting in the water and riding on whales, things like that? if you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don t you think you d