Killer Whale Injures Trainer During Show

[bl00]

Hmmm...maybe the whale got bored of the planned routine and decided to try something new?

 

[ozz465]

Sucks for the trainer and family , but what do u expect ?? the whale is to damm big to stop , same for monticor and roy.

 

[dysfunctionaljd]

Hmmm...maybe the whale got bored of the planned routine and decided to try something new?

Whales are horrible at improv


Glad to know they aren't gonna to do anything to the whale, if it was a wild animal, it would have been killed already for following its instinct.

 

[knifegill]

It just makes news because people love to say "I told you so" or have frail beliefs that whales love them or something. I love whales, but they do not love people. They are captive, conditioned animals. Any animal used by humans to perform stunts and tricks occasionally goofs up and exhibits natural behavior. Lions, scorpions, shoot, I'll bet dove crap has gotten magicians sick. Working with any animal has risks. Considering how rarely these things happen, it's a relatively safe roll of the dice. How long was it before a tiger got Sigfried or Roy? Some twenty years or so? If people rode alligator gars everyday, you'd hear a story every few years about one guy getting nipped or slapped at one park out of the thousands of zoos using them. It is what it is.

 

[Zoodiver]

I laugh when things like this happen. Anytime you work with an apex predator, you need to respect them for what they do. "Riding" them doesn't really respect the power.