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Killer Whale Kills Trainer
Posted by leicester_bangs on 25 February 2010 - 4:17pm.
Is there a certain poetic justice when a wild animal turns on its trainer?
Probably. Especially when the trainer keeps thwacking the animal on its hooter:
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v596410AyhZjwAQ
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The notion that we can tame
wild animals and teach them party tricks without them ever reverting to being a wild animal is arrogant, stupid and unfortunately fatal. See various threads about how we are losing all connection between modern life and raw nature, e.g. not realising that hamburgers are really cows and bacon sandwiches are pigs.
I always thought the clue was in the name....
...incidentally what happened to Siegfried and Roy? Do they still perform with the tigers?
Or is it?
I didn't know before coverage of the orca in Florida that a killer whale is actually a dolphin.
A bunch of us
travelling back from a long night out in Leeds one Sunday had to pull onto the hard shoulder of the M1 we were laughing so much when the S&R news came through on the radio. In hindsight, with maturity and parenthood now on my side, it's still bloody funny.
Was that...
See World.
Siegfried & Roy Incident Underscores the Dangers of Exotic Pets
From your posting not sure if you had seen this at the time ...
but anyway, looks as if they have retired for good after a final show last year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_&_Roy
They are buggers
them Manticores. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manticore
Even got the better of Tarkus.
Terror Couple Kill Colonel
sorry, just having one of my Bauhaus moments
Hit or myth
I've seen plenty of these Shamu shows in Orlando and was shocked at this death. My daughter was allowed to touch a killer whale during a show and I have seen tiny children sat on the back of a performing orca for a photograph. Phew. Then the cynic jumped back in when I realised it was at the end of a public show and no footage seems to have surfaced...yet.
It goes back to the myth (or truth) that when such incidents have happened in the past (and there have been others) that the public gets locked in the stadium until all the video recordings are retrieved/wiped to destroy the evidence.
Nah. Can't be true. Can it?
Having "swum with dolphins"
..in the wild (Monkey Mia, Australia), I can honestly say it wasn't the least bit spiritual, and in fact rather terrifying. For a start, a playful bump from a dolphin is like being hit by a car tyre swung on the end of a rope* and two, they have a large mouthful of razor sharp teeth. In fact, they aren't entirely dissimilar to HR Giger's Alien.
If you put their bigger cousins (Orcas) in a bathtub sized pond and make them do tricks 4 times a day, I'm not in the least bit surprised if they get a bit surly. Interestingly, here in the US, the Sea World Manager was saying she slipped and fell in, whilst the eyewitnesses were saying it leapt out and grabbed her. There's some furious spinning going on.
* It seems unbelievable now, but when I was a cub, this was a game we'd play - all in a circle leaping furiously, and an adult in the centre swinging a tyre attached to a rope, at roughly knee height. Last cub standing was the winner...
If the clue was in the name...
...thank the lord it wasn't a sperm whale