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).
We call that “stuck on stupid”...
WILD KILLER whales are NOT part of the HUMAN family.
People have gotten to be totally idiotic.
If your grown kid viciously killed someone....you’d send him to his room???
“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.
So does this mean Robert, ‘Pride-goeth-before-the-fall’ Rose will be the first one back into the water with his famous three-time man-killer?
It’s not about having wild animals in captivity so we can study and see them when we otherwise would not be able to in the wild. It’s about treating those wild animals like PETS.
It’s the Disneyfication of the animal kingdom and our need to show them all as cute and cuddly and friendly.
Make them dependent on you for food and survival then make them do tricks for your amusement- all the while choosing to pretend their wild, killer, side no longer exists.
Then we have the nerve( the stupid, anyway) to be SURPRISED when they ‘snap’ one day and act according to nature.
Goes for dogs bred for aggression, snakes, big cats and ‘Killer whales’.
Amazing how- in trying to teach wild animals to be friendly- the human race has learned so little.
Ever since that tragedy of the woman who had her face torn off by a chimpanzee I would have thought people would have come to understand that large, higher-order mammals like chimps, big cats, wolves, bears, killer-whales, etc. weren’t put on the Earth to be anybodys pets. Guess not. These are cute cuddly human-like beings. They’re incredibly powerful, strong creatures with millions of years of evolution and instinct hard-wired into them and their behaviour involving inter-action with humans is always unpredictable. This is why they’re called ‘’wild’’ and it’s in the wild were they should be left as God created them to be.
Next time a trainer gets killed, I don’t want to see a “boo-hoo” story, or even hear their name. They know the risk.
In that same report they mentioned the $5M insurance policy on that whale and how he is an important part of their breeding program.
Another nut who can’t tell a killer whale from Lassie.
NO fear, eh? Maybe not now- but I’ll bet there was fear in those last few seconds for that naive trainer.
There’s a word for those who do not fear wild animals...
Victim.