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>> we ask that you use the stairs and aisle ways as you exit. please do not step on the seats. these areas may become wet, and therefore slippery to some footwear. thank you. ♪ >> in the wild when theres tension they have thousands of square miles to exit the scene and they can get away. you dont have that in captivity. could you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when youre used to swimming 100 miles a day? >> sometimes this aggression became very severe, and in fact wh...

These areas may become wet, and therefore slippery to some footwear. thank you. ♪ >> in the wild when theres tension they have thousands of square miles to exit the scene and they can get away. you dont have that in captivity. could you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when youre used to swimming 100 miles a day? >> sometimes this aggression became very severe, and in fact whales have died in captivity because of this aggression.

Hi, shamu. hi, everybody. were the johnsons from detroit, michigan. we sure had a great time when we visited seaworld. its one of our favorite places. >> yeah, i like when shamu gets everybody wet. >> when the whales get up close to the glass, start kicking up the water, whammo, youre a goner. ♪ >> orange county sheriff deputies have identified the 27-year-old man found dead in a killer whales tank at seaworld. the victim is daniel p. dukes from south carolina. dukes was found yesterday draped...

>> theyre so dumb, they dont know the difference between captivity and the wild. >> you can tell them to go out and get the paper. >> a chicken will drown in the rain if it puts its head up like that. >> what, if the drops get in its beak and it drowns? >> theyre so slow. they dont understand. >> you have had chickens? >> freddie. >> youre not lying about it? >> no. i never lie. freddie was my pet chicken. we had him in miami. he would run around the pool patio area. we moved to new york and we ...

>> its time to stop the shows. its time to stop forcing the animals to perform in basically a circus environment. and they should release the animals that are young enough and healthy enough to be released. and the animals like tilikum that are old and sick and have put in 25 years in the industry should be released to an open ocean pen to live out their lives and experience the rhythm of the ocean. >> this is a multibillion dollar organization. >> theyre not suitable to have in captivity. >> th...

He arrived, i think, in 1992. i was at whale and dolphin stadium when he arrived. hes twice as large as the next animal in the facility. >> right at about 12,000 pounds. thats -- thats incredible. he looks fantastic. >> when tilikum arrived at seaworld, he was attacked viciously repeatedly by katina and others. in the wild, its a very matriarchal society. male whales are kept at the perimeter. in captivity, animals are squeezed into very close proximity. tilikum, the poor guy is so large, he cou...

The water, whammo, youre a goner. ♪ >> orange county sheriff deputies have identified the 27-year-old man found dead in a killer whales tank at seaworld. the victim is daniel p. dukes from south carolina. dukes was found yesterday draped over the back of tilikum, the largest orca held in captivity. >> all i know is the public relations version of it. he was a young man that had been arrested not long before he snuck into seaworld. maybe he climbed the barbed wire fence around the perimeter and...

Were the johnsons from detroit, michigan. we sure had a great time when we visited seaworld. its one of our favorite places. >> yeah, i like when shamu gets everybody wet. >> when the whales get up close to the glass, start kicking up the water, whammo, youre a goner. ♪ >> orange county sheriff deputies have identified the 27-year-old man found dead in a killer whales tank at seaworld. the victim is daniel p. dukes from south carolina. dukes was found yesterday draped over the back of tilikum,...

You dont have that in captivity. could you imagine being in a small concrete enclosure for your life when youre used to swimming 100 miles a day? >> sometimes this aggression became very severe, and in fact whales have died in captivity because of this aggression. >> i think it was 1988 kandu tried to assert her dominance over corky. rammed corky. it fractured her jaw, which cut an artery in her head, and then she bled out. thats got to be a hard way to go down. i saw there was just a lot of thi...

Maliciously, they want to prove the theorem that captivity makes animals crazy. and that is just false. >> all animals in captivity have a bad life. theyre all destroyed. theyre all psychologically traumatized. so they are ticking time bombs. its not just tilikum. >> we have to separate what happened to dawn, and as tragic as it is and no one wants to see it happen again. can seaworld create an environment where it never happens again? yes, i absolutely believe they can. what if there were no se...