What caused Tilikum death?
ORLANDO, Fla. — Five years ago, SeaWorld whale Tilikum died after a lung infection.
Has SeaWorld improved since blackfish?
SeaWorld’s leadership refused to take part in my study. I found evidence that Blackfish led to negative publicity for SeaWorld and changed how people viewed marine mammal captivity. As a result, attendance at the park decreased and the market value of the company dropped.
What will happen to Tilikum when he dies?
Still, when Tilikum dies he will leave us with something extremely precious, something to redeem his impoverished life in captivity: a desire to give greater moral consideration to other species on our planet, and to re-think the casual ease with which we seek to use nature and all things wild for human purposes. We desperately needed that.
What do they do with Tilikum’s body?
After that they’ll either dispose of the body or donate it to a school for dissection for future marine biologists. Also know, what did they do with Tilikum? Tilikum became famous for killing an Orlando trainer in 2010. His life was examined in the anti-captivity documentary “Blackfish.”
Did SeaWorld trainers feel sorry for Tilikum?
John Hargrove, who was a senior trainer at SeaWorld Texas when Brancheau died, says that most trainers, including some of Brancheau’s closest friends, did everything they could to care for Tilikum after the incident: “We did feel sorry for Tilikum, because we knew his life would be drastically changed forever.
Who is Tilikum the killer whale?
But Tilikum never set out to become the symbol of an industry, a relationship between man and nature, gone wrong. He was just a wild killer whale calf in an ocean world whose life was suddenly interrupted and derailed by the human world. And the thing that most saddens me about Tilikum’s plight, and his eventual death, is the life he never lived.