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These Animals Made Famous: The Tragic Story of Tilikum, the Killer Orca

2022-08-13T09:10:20.027Z


SERIES (6/7). Captured off the coast of Iceland as a youngster, harassed by killer whales with which the animal grew up in captivity, Tilikum would res


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  • Voluble as an American, precise as a witness who repeated his story in court, and still incredibly sad.

    John Hargrove, the reformed killer whale trainer, can't stop rewatching the film of the death of his friend and colleague killed by the killer whale Tilikum in 2010. The same morning;

    he was swimming with one of his incredible marine mammals in Seaworld San Diego.

    “We were first told about an accident.

    When I found out it was Dawn, it was Tilly, I realized it was an assault,” he describes interrupting his vacation to answer the phone.

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    Source: leparis

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