That's a seal in its mouth
This is a reminder that when you see someone working with a large predator, whether it is Sigfried and Roy and their tigers, or if it's SeaWorld's killer whales, these are still wild animals, and there is danger whenever you interact with a large predator.
The whale, Tilikum, after all, weighs over 6 tons.
One report (at link) has the whale grabbing the trainer, Dawn Brancheau, by pony tail, and the initial coroner's report lists drowning as the primary cause of death.
That being said, all cetaceans are highly intelligent, social creatures, and it is possible that the death was as a result of a purely social interaction that it did not realize was harmful.
He could simply have been playing the game with a…
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Chum
I am a very bad person.
Bad, but very, very funny!
ReplyDeleteYou did recognize, rightly, that the shark may not have had evil intentions, which is very good.
Ummm....It's a mammal.
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't think that a shark can have evil intent, that's way too advanced for a shark brain, but for cetaceans, they might be able to.
Dolphins, Killer Whales, etc. are very smart.