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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.
you could literally be done with the test by now. now you could have done it twice. this is awkward. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. could you tell if this was an accident or did this female trainer work with this whale on a regular basis? i don t know. apparently what happened is we had a female trainer back in the whale holding area. she apparently slipped or fell into the tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales. at first seaworld reported a trainer slipped and fell in the water and was drowned. that was the first report. it wasn t until eyewitness accounts disputed that that they had to go back in their huddle and say, wait a minute, we ve got to come up with a new plan.
square miles to exit the scene and they can get away. you don t have that in captivity. could you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when you re used to swimming 100 miles a day? sometimes this aggression became very severe, and in fact whales have died in captivity because of this aggression. i think it was 1988 kandu tried to assert her dominance over corky. rammed corky. it fractured her jaw, which cut an artery in her head, and then she bled out. that s got to be a hard way to go down. i saw there was just a lot of things that weren t right. and there was a lot of misinformation and something was amiss. and i sort of compartmentalized that part of it and did the best i could with the knowledge that i had. to take care of the animals that
we re the johnsons from detroit, michigan. we sure had a great time when we visited seaworld. it s one of our favorite places. yeah, i like when shamu gets everybody wet. when the whales get up close to the glass, start kicking up the water, whammo, you re a goner. orange county sheriff deputies have identified the 27-year-old man found dead in a killer whale s tank at seaworld. the victim is daniel p. dukes from south carolina. dukes was found yesterday draped over the back of tilikum, the largest orca held in captivity. all i know is the public relations version of it. he was a young man that had been arrested not long before he snuck into seaworld. maybe he climbed the barbed wire fence around the perimeter and stayed after hours. perfect story line. a mentally disturbed guy hides