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Should We Kill The Whale Because It Killed A Human?

March 2, 2010
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Should We Kill The Whale Because It Killed A Human?
(Forgot to post this back when this happened.) In short, it's called a "killer whale," not "the next best thing to Bambi."

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  • Mariah Gonzales

    I say no, we shouldn't kill the whale Tilly. They have had him in captivity so long. Would you go crazy if you were in a cage and had no other place to live had no free time?
    The whale is a killer whale. Hint; KILLER!
    Whales are animals, and animals are not play toys. The need to be kept free, and now that Tilly has been kept in captivity so long we dont know if he can last out there in the Ocean. Would he adapt to the Climate?
    It isnt the whales fault. It is ours. Human beings! We had the choice to be free, we have the choice to choose what we want.
    Why isnt it the same for these animals? We are all living things that have a say in whatever goes on. So i say we should not kill Tilly!

  • Jean

    Well, I didn't follow ti at first, so I'm going on a quick google hit…
    The whale may be stir-crazy; it may be nasty; it may just have wanted to play.
    Killer whales are rather large animals, at home in water. They may not have animosity towards humans, that doesn't mean we aren't seen by them as lesser animals.
    It is an animal, so it can't be guilty of murder. (OTOH, had it eaten the trainer, we'd have to put it down regardless as a safety risk.)
    However, when I was at Sea World oh so long ago, they did tricks like grabbing fish from a trainer's hand. The animals play games with toys provided by the trainers.

    In this case, the whale wanted to give the trainer a ride. Also, grabbing by a ponytail if that's accurate, doesn't imply an intent (which I would find hard to ascribe even to an orca.) Grabbing around the waist, maybe, especially if the primary wounds were from the orca's teeth. Drowning as primary cause? Hold your breath. Keep holding it, you have to hold it for 5 minutes.

    (cont.)

  • Jean

    Did you even last a minute? Porpoises and whales can hold their breath for a LONG time. IIRC, some hold their breath for half an hour.
    Now, I say this as a kid who tried to teach caterpillars to swim. Not too smart, right? But they would drown. They don't breath like we do, but even as a gifted child, I didn't realize this. Gifted child compared to orca, even fi the orca wins… He can hold his breath for 15 minutes. Can't you? Are you defective? :-)

    Not the first time I've heard of an orca maiming someone, either. Last time at Sea World, the orca playing Shamu landed on top of the trainer as they did a jump. Whale = big, human = small. Human + under whale = broken human. Orca MIGHT notice. The whale wouldn't know what to do regardless, though. The human "is", like coral, fish, squid, etc. It doesn't talk like the whale, can't swim for sh!t, and doesn't taste good, though sometimes it has a fishy smell.

    Whale shouldn't be killed, but humans should have their heads examined, and we need to drop the dumbing down of education post-haste!

  • Randy

    If the orca wanted to be malicious or intended to "hurt" the trainer, it would have been over in seconds….

  • james

    animals are not people god put them on the earth so we can eat! if they cant set it free then kill it. crazy green people.we are different god gave us to forgive the whale cant.

  • james

    do care about people

  • james

    green people or enviromentalist dont care about people they just care about stupid animals ino it did not mean to do it but if a grizzly attacked a person we should kill it and a shark attacks a humman we should do it so kill the whale it will be just better off the whale dead with all of this aguing!kill the whale i say!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Brandy

    The name “killer whale” was given to the Orca, because it kills whales in the wild, not because it is some toothed marine mammal looking to strike vengence on humans at every turn. In fact there are no recorded killings of humans by Orcas in the wild.

    To answer your question, should Tilly be killed after his attack on Dawn; my answer is absolutely not. We removed Tilly from the wild, we bought him in captivity, we knew the risks invovled in dealing with such a large toothed mammal and further we are intelligent enough to know better. How is it fair that the whale should die when all we had to do was to leave it alone in its natural environment to begin with? How would you like to be kidnapped from your family by a foreign species, shoved in a relatively small locked room and asked to perform tricks everyday of your life in front of many staring eyes watching through glass as noise that echos nonstop avails all around you? Personally, I would find it difficult to remain sane myself.

    It is not the orca’s fault it is in captivity. It was our fault he is in captivity. We choose to bring him to us. He didn’t crawl across the land and hop in Sea World’s tank announcing “I’m here”!

    Honestly, I feel sorry for this whale. I feel sorry for the trainer Dawn’s family. There is no win win situation for anyone in all this. Tilly will probably be forced to lived the remaining years of his miserable captive life in a small pin secluded from everything. Which could be deemed as a fate worse than death. As for Dawn’s family they will never have their sister or daughter back. Noone wins in this case, not the whale and not the victims left behind. People really need to start making better choices about the world we live in and how we treat it.

    Best wishes.

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