Posted on 02/27/2010 7:39:13 AM PST by JoeProBono
Miami Sequarium Curator Says Relationships with Orcas Are Built Over Years, Countless Hours of Interaction, Play.
In the wake of the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau, killed by a whale named Tilikum at SeaWorld Wednesday, Robert Rose, curator at the Miami Seaquarium, said on "The Early Show" Friday he has no fear of the killer whales in his care. He said his relationship with the whales at the Seaquarium has been built over years through countless hours of interaction and play.
"They're part of our family. We care very deeply about these animals," he said. "We really love and enjoy what we do as trainers."
Rose said he knew Brancheau and his wife worked with her. He said this is a difficult time for people in the wildlife industry. He said his heart goes out to her friends and family.
Don’t sleep with a whale, they might just turn on you.
They are called KILLER whale for a reason. LOL
After the accident his close friends called him Bob.
The Grizzly-Singer from Malibu knew ‘his’ bears by name; they called him ‘snack-biscuit.’
So you get people who are in total fear of guns and think it will shoot them if they even look at a picture of one drawn by an 8 year old boy. Then you get people who think that working with a wild animal that is capable of killing yoiu in 3 seconds is the safest thing in the world. Funny how the mind works.
The victim, Dawn, was violently shaken and thrashed about just as I’ve seen videos of killer whates doing with a seal they grabbed (their favorite prey).
Sorry for typo.
We call that “stuck on stupid”...
WILD KILLER whales are NOT part of the HUMAN family.
People have gotten to be totally idiotic.
Helps clean up the gene pool?
If your grown kid viciously killed someone....you’d send him to his room???
I read an article this week that the whales are just playing with the seals when they thrash them around.. LOL.
“They’re part of our family. We care very deeply about these animals,” he said. “We really love and enjoy what we do as trainers.”
Wonder if he has ever asked himself how the whales feel about what they do?
Lets see...wonderfully vibrant ocean, through which I glide as the king of the sea...or dull, tiny, acoustically dead concrete pond in which I’m forced to perform and fed dead fish.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the animals don’t “love and enjoy” their captivity any more than a wrongly convicted man enjoys his.
This love the animals and they will love you business is foolish. There will be some reciprocation but it will vary and it won't be reliable.
I get along with critters better than most people do, but I do it by blending in, I don't mess around with their natural behavior, beyond hand feeding a few willing birds.
A Boat tailed Grackle isn't going to bite my hand off if it goes bonkers. A Raccoon might. An Orca having a bad day is a weapon of mass destruction.
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