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Transcripts for CNN Blackfish 20150816 01:49:30 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
And where was he going to run? there s no place to run. i think he spent a lot of time in isolation. seaworld claims, oh, no, he s always in with the other with the females. but from what i saw he was mostly put with the females for breeding purposes and he didn t spend a lot of time with the other whales. it s for his own protection, you know, he gets beat up, and so by segregating him, it provides a physical barrier so the females can t kick his butt. tilikum is pretty much kept in the back, and then brought out at the very end as like the big splash. he was always happy to see you in the morning. hi! there we go. good boy. look at his choppers. maybe because he was alone. maybe because he was hungry. maybe because he just liked you. who knows what was going on in his head. want to whistle? [ whistling ] yes? ....
Transcripts for CNN Blackfish 20150816 01:18:30 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
All sealand was was a net hanging in a marina with a float around it. tilikum was the one we really loved to work with. he was very well behaved and he was always eager to please. when he was first introduced, everything just went fine and dandy. but the previous head trainer used techniques that involved punishment. he would team a trained orca up with tilikum who was untrained, he would send them both off to do the same behavior. if tilikum didn t do it, both animals were punished. deprived of food to keep them hungry. this caused a lot of frustration with the larger animal, the established animal. and would in turn get frustrated with tilikum and would rake him with his teeth. there would be times during certain seasons that tilikum would be covered head to toe with rakes. rakes are teeth on teeth and raking the skin and from head to toe. you could see blood and you ....
And healthy enough to be released. and the animals like tilikum who 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 corporation that makes its money through the exploitation of orcas. they re not suitable to have in captivity. the whales are really bored. you deprive them of all this environmental stimulation. i think that in 50 years we ll look back and go, my god, what a barbaric time. ....