[JoeProBono]

Trainers at SeaWorld are taught to reinforce the whales' good behavior with rewards and to not react at all to bad behavior.

[JoeProBono]

'Tilikum, weighing about 12,000 pounds, has been linked to two other deaths -- he and two other whales were involved in the drowning of a trainer at a Victoria, British Columbia, marine park in 1991. Authorities said in 1999 that a 27-year-old man was the apparent victim of a Tilikum's "horseplay" at SeaWorld.'

[1010RD]

Looks more OCD to me.

[Frantzie]

This is as dumb as Sigfried and Roy's BS. These whales are carnivores.

Circuses are even worse because elephants by nature roam for hundreds of miles. They go crazy in captivity.

Animals want freedom.

Americans want freedom from stinking tyrants like the Dems & RINOs.

[highlander_UW]

Confining such an enormous animal in an aquarium tank leads the animal to display neurotic behavior, experts say.

This isn't restricted to whales either. Back when I was in college I read a study done with lab rats where they kept increasing the population density of a colony...as the population went up so did the incidents of homosexuality.

[dr_who]

It’s all because of global warming.

[alameda]

Well I for one have seen and heard enough. I’m no PETA or animal rights extremist.
But I don’t think these great and beautiful carnivores need to be doing circus tricks to help pay for a marine amusement park.
These open ocean mammals are smart and this particular whale plays for keeps. Preditors with brains don’t take kindly to being cooped up.. get it!
I do understand that some of these whales could not survive long if released into the wild, so be it, keep it safe for now.
Lets end the Timothy Treadwell (RIP) like communing with these poor wild animals. How many more children will have to watch the slaughter of more trainers as if in some Roman Colosseum..

[kcvl]

The woman was doing what she loved. I say, more power to her!

I just heard Jack Hanna say that Sea-World used $60 million dollars last year to provide for and study Killer Whales. I would say they probably received better care than some humans!

Oh, and Jack Hanna slapped down PETA's Ingrid Newkirk (British-born animal rights activist) when she claimed they were swimming in their own urine. Remember, she is the one who willed her skin to be made into purses, her feet into umbrellas, etc. I think we should oblige her.