So what’s in a name? They’re highly intelligent animals who are very capable killers....of their target prey. Look it up. Look at what they hunt in the wild.
Humans aren’t on the menu.
I wish more here would learn just a bit about these critters (I happen to be a huge “fan” of them) rather than spouting trite phrases based upon their unfortunate common name and likening them to lions, tigers, etc., and falling onto the tired bromide of “gee, he was just doing what God programmed him to do”.
This one’s just a mean sumbitch who has no business being around people.
I’ll be you and others would have a totally different tune here if the munched one in this case was some little girl from the audience petting the cute killer whale. How’d you feel then?
My opinion would be that the parent of that child is an idiot.
Kinda like a story a couple of years ago about a teenage girl getting her grad photos taken with a tiger. She squealed, he killed her. Good idea, mom!!!!
Tiger's fault? Nope.
Whale's fault? Nope.
Any human who interacts with any wild animal is knowingly putting themselves at risk, and apparently it is a risk they are willing to take. Hell, even an "adorable, harmless" kangaroo can kill a grown man.
People are stupid when it comes to this crap.
“This one’s just a mean sumbitch who has no business being around people.”
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I don’t know that he’s mean because it happened in San Diego (circa 1970’s) with a Shamu whale also. Shamu didn’t kill the girl trainer but he did grab her by the leg and drag her down to the bottom of the pool. He was just “playing” with her.
I don’t believe for a minute these whales are trying to kill these trainers. I think they are just showing their natural dominance and superiority in the water.
If the whales wanted to kill, they would bite and eat their victims and that’s not what happened in ANY of these cases.