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Does that tell you any more about what happened? >> if you look at the first interview i did two hours after the incident on wednesday, you'll see i said in not knowing the details that maybe human error was involved. not knowing anything, just 42 years of working with animals. this wasn't an attack by any means. the whale saw the hair, something different, took the hair and took dawn, who was a very good friend -- i'm still not over that -- down and obviously what happened happened. as far as the whales at seaworld, they're socially, mentally, physically, beautifully cared for or they wouldn'...

Russ rector, founder of dolphin freedom foundation. he believes whales belong in the ocean. let's get to it. jack, details coming in now are terrifying. source at seaworld telling us tilikum dove deep under water after seizing the ponytail and took staffers 40 minutes to retrieve her body. what does that mean to you? >> if you look at the first interview i did two hours after the incident on wednesday, you'll see i said in not knowing the details that maybe human error was involved. not knowing anything, just 42 years of working with animals. this wasn't an attack by any means. the whale saw t...

It was her ponytail? >> exactly. rig right. and the whale just grabbed it. that wasn't an attack. an attack happened like -- when they attack something in the ocean up on land, they can go up on land 15 feet, by the way, to grab a 400-pound sea lion, it's like a bomb going off. it's beyond comprehension. this could have been a behavior -- for myself, i don't think this is aggression. that's me talking. grabbed the hair, took her down and said, hey, this is something maybe to play w i don't know. i'm not a whale trainer. i'm just saying that that's jack hanna's take on this entire thing. that s...