How would you feel if you were ripped away from your family and forced to perform in a much smaller environment? Pretty angry, right? That is exactly how Tilikum feels. Tilikum is a 13,000 pound bull ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Shamu is big business at SeaWorld, which owns more killer whales than anyone else in the world and builds the orca image into its multimillion-dollar brand, and the killing of a ...
Tilikum the orca whale, who was responsible for killing three humans, including trainer Dawn Brancheau, shows the effects of captivity Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...
Tilikum, the 12,000-pound bull orca whose big splashes still climax daily SeaWorld shows, has been implicated in three human deaths, spread over his three decades of forced performances: Two trainers, ...