CNN: Killer whale lives up to its name at SeaWorld

[ethiostar]

Me too. She made her money exploiting a wild animal so she knew the danger. I hate it happened but animals like that are unpredictable.

Dude, you seem passionate about this issue but you have no idea why she was doing what she was doing.

 

[ShiningStar]

Cause those are the only cases ever seen. There would never in anyone's wildest dreams be some sort of in between case. That's just crazy talk.

And this goes back to saving the pretty animals or the ones we can humanize. Lets see, do we save a bunch of fun otters, or cows?

Do we save the fun dolphin who swims and shakes or the man eating shark or man o war who has no marketing skills.

Who's out there saving the wart hog, it might be endangered but no one cares.

Lets just remember that nature is a harsh mistress and things die, even the pretty ones. its going to happen. Or do we want to go into the jungle and save all the pretty fun monkeys that might get eaten?

Ooo noes, lets go out there and save the pretty animals.

 

[MapleLeaf]

...has had a prior issue with humans.

It originally came from Sea Land in Victoria,British Columbia where there was an incident with the animal and another trainer. The protocol was for this animal to be isolated with limited contact with the trainers, but obviously something went wrong.

http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?uan=5473

 

[Hoofbite]

And this goes back to saving the pretty animals or the ones we can humanize. Lets see, do we save a bunch of fun otters, or cows?

Do we save the fun dolphin who swims and shakes or the man eating shark or man o war who has no marketing skills.

Who's out there saving the wart hog, it might be endangered but no one cares.

Lets just remember that nature is a harsh mistress and things die, even the pretty ones. its going to happen. Or do we want to go into the jungle and save all the pretty fun monkeys that might get eaten?

Ooo noes, lets go out there and save the pretty animals.

I really can't figure out what position you are taking.

Seems like you were initially against saving the animals because they belong in nature. At the top of this post it looks like you are complaining because we only save the ones we choose to save.

(Which by the way, guaranteed there are more otters in captivity in America then there are whales in captivity in America.

About cows, you're right. We don't save them. We only mass produce them and slaughter them by the millions.)

Now you're saying that we shouldn't save them because natures a ***** and we can't save them all?

 

[MetalHead]

People are stupid...they are conducting an investigation to find out what has occurred.what are they gonna do?...interrogate the Orcas?...imagine that..."Yes,Mr Shamu,did you notice any strange behavior,anything you can tell us about Tilikum?Problems with the IRS?Tea Party goer...anything?"

Unbelievable.

 

[kmp77]

Reporter: "Killer Whale....why did you do this?"

Killer Whale: "I'm a Killer Whale."

Reporter: ...stares blankly at camera.