{"id":189658,"date":"2010-02-25T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/25\/about-the-killer-whale-death\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:24:00","slug":"about-the-killer-whale-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/25\/about-the-killer-whale-death\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Killer Whale Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img39.imageshack.us\/img39\/1453\/p32201094534279.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img39.imageshack.us\/img39\/1453\/p32201094534279.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">That&#8217;s a seal in its mouth<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It is clearly a tragedy that a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/22659901\/detail.html\"> SeaWorld trainer was killed by an Orca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s SeaWorld&#8217;s killer whales, these are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still wild animals<\/span>, and there is danger whenever you interact with a large predator.<\/p>\n<p>The whale, Tilikum, after all, weighs over 6 tons.<\/p>\n<p>One report (at link) has the whale grabbing the trainer, Dawn Brancheau, by  pony tail, and the initial coroner&#8217;s report lists drowning as the primary cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He could simply have been playing the game with a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026wait for it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026wait for it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026wait for it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026wait for it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >Chum<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am a very bad person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a seal in its mouth It is clearly a tragedy that a SeaWorld trainer was killed by an Orca. 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&#8217;s SeaWorld&#8217;s killer whales, these are still wild animals, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1048,1050,1244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-humor","category-snark","category-tasteless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}