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Trainers decided that they had to stop the show because they couldn t get the whales under control. tilikum was in the back pool set up to do a dive shamu performance with dawn. likely she saw what had gone on during the main show and so she had probably felt more pressure to do a good show. when you watch the whole video, you can see that tilikum is actually really with dawn in the beginning of the video. there s a couple of behaviors she asked him to do where tilikum jumps right in and does exactly what she asks him to do. there seemed to be a point in the session where things went south, so to speak. and in my humble opinion, it was at that missed bridge, whistle ....
And the handfuls of fish they re getting delivered by the trainer are all getting smaller. so they know that they re coming down to the end of session. when you see the difference between the beginning of the video and the end of the video, you can see that he s just not quite on his game anymore. there s no food left. she kept asking him for more and more behaviors. he wasn t getting reinforced for the behaviors that he was doing correctly. he probably was frustrated towards the end. then she walked around the perimeter of g pool. he followed her. and then continued over into the rocky ledge area where she laid down with him to do a relationship session, which is quiet time basically. tilikum at some point grabbed ahold of her left forearm and started to drag her and eventually did a barrel roll and pulled her in. may have started as play or ....
He s clearly a liability to the institution. why keep him around? well, it s quite simple to answer. and that is that his semen is worth a lot of money. over the years, tilikum has been one of the main breeding whales at seaworld, which is brilliant because they can inseminate way more female whales because they can just get his sperm and freeze it, and he s basically operating as a sperm bank. in a reputable breeding program, rule number one is you certainly would not breed an animal that has shown a history of aggression towards humans. imagine if you had a pit bull who had killed. i mean, that animal would have likely been put down. but in the entire seaworld collection, it s like 54% of the whales in seaworld s collection now have tilikum s genes. ....
three hours now, and he hasn t moved. they try to sugarcoat it by saying he comes out in the front pool every once in a while. now he s doing shows. you know what he does in a show? he does a few bows, and then he goes back into his little jail cell. that s his life. i feel sad for tilikum. a regal thing like him swimming around the tank with his fin flopped over like that compared to a wild bull killer whale that size, which is one of the most kinetic and dynamic things you can imagine. i feel sad when i see him. it s time to stop the shows. it s time to stop forcing these animals to perform in basically a circus environment. ....
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