Posted on 02/03/2010 7:51:16 PM PST by FredJake
Video of what happened last year during the "Believe" show at San Diego's SeaWorld, a pelican decided to drop in for the show. Unfortunately for the pelican, the whales decided to take a brake from the show and have the pelican for lunch instead. The person who captured this video was in the right place at the right time. Unfortunately for the pelican it was in the wrong place at the wrong time. During a portion of the show where a young child it introduced to a friendly whale, the pelican landed onto the pool. Suddenly out of nowhere one of the whales lunged at it from underneath the water, caught it in it's jaws, and dragged the bird under the water, thus drowning it. The other whales in the pool, with the exception of the whale that was at the front of the pool with the little girl from the audience, all disappeared under the water ignoring their trainers.
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Throughout the ordeal the show's music continued to blare out of the speakers, but it was obvious to the audience the show had not gone as planned. Some of the trainers tried to continue on as if nothing had happened and continued the dance moves. Meanwhile the whales still hadn't surfaced and had their catch at the bottom of the pool. Eventually one whale did surface, as did the limp body of the pelican. The whales then pushed it around the surface for a while and then tore it apart in front of the audience.
Eventually the trainers got back the attention of the whales and managed to lure them backstage to the holding pen, leaving bits of pelican floating around in the pool. Once the trainers had the whales securely locked up, they then went about retrieving the Pelican parts from the pool. Since the show had been cut short, the bewildered audience responded with clapping and cheering as each part of the Pelican was retrieved from the pool.
While SeaWorld tries to humanize these deadly creatures for the spectators, this video proves that they are still wild animals and their "Killer Whale" instincts are sill very acute.
I remember that. They had a school band and everything to send off the otter. In reality the band and the crowd of people are the very reason the whale was alerted to something going on. Then he realized there was something going on. The nice humans were offering him some food for dinner and music to relax him with.
If I am not mistaking it cost the taxpayers something like $90,000.00 to clean up the whales food.
They probably thought the crew would put the pelican back together.
I didn’t know that San Diego had huge snow covered mountains nearby.
Just doing what wild animals do naturally.
They might grab the kid too if she fell in the water. Reflexes take over sometimes.
A couple years ago a two of us retired guys were setting up elk camp for our party, when two of the younger guys showed up with a rabbit for dinner.
Turns out they had run it over on the way into camp. "Tread tenderized."
Thanks.
The idea that you're safe in knee deep water isn't neccessarily so.
Saves time...not having to remove the shot.:)
Yes, that’s the way it used to be, in the seventies. Proof of climate change. Send this to the IPCC.
WETA!
That mountain reminds me greatly of Rainier, or possibly Hood, although it seems to near Puget Sound to be Hood, and Hood is shaped more nearly like the ideal volcanic cone.
It doesn’t.
Its Mt Rainer.
The Photo is in Commencement Bay.(Puget Sound)
There was a man killed on Hatteras Island by a shark maybe nine years back. IIRC he was wading in knee-deep water with his new wife.
Flight of fancy.
Remember the Far Side with the whale at Sea World saying “Forget the herring, I’m going for the whole schmeer.”
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