Star Killer Whale Mauls Trainer in

No time.

 

February 25, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - A famous killer whale trainer- performer was killed during her regular entertainment show in front of audience at Orlando theme park on Wednesday.

 

The big fish named Tillikum, weighing nearly 6 metric tons grabbed Dawn Brancheau by his powerful teeth and pulled her under the pool’s water. Park officials said this same killer whale has already killed two other people earlier, one in 1991 and another 1999.

 

The killer whale’s motives behind the killings may not necessarily match those similar crimes committed by human beings. The powerful fish could have just been thinking of playing it a bit more exciting when it noticed that something was wrong by a human body floating in the water.

 

‘These behemoths are denied all of their natural, instinctual inclinations, and we humans tend to think, ‘Well, this is just a bad animal.’ But it is a wild animal, used to running free in an entire ocean, but now confined to a very small space,’ explained Joyce Tischler a specialist on the subject.

 

Wildlife specialists say the pool where the killer whale now swims is way too small for such a huge creature. ‘This isn’t the first time that stressed-out orca whales have injured or killed people, and unfortunately, it is not likely to be the last,” said David Phillips director of a well-known wildlife organization. ‘It is high time that the marine park industry get out of the captive orca business,’ he added.