Park’s killer whale almost lives up to name

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Tom

At Sea World in San Diego, a trainer was pulled down to the bot­tom of a tank by a killer whale in front of a large crowd. Luck­ily, he was able to con­vince the whale to let him go and he wasn’t seri­ously injured.

This is why I get a funny feel­ing see­ing the Marineland com­mer­cials where the killer whale kisses the lit­tle girl. These are large, pow­er­ful, intel­li­gent preda­tors yet some­how we think that because they’re in water they rep­re­sent less of threat than lions or tigers.

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2 thoughts on “Park’s killer whale almost lives up to name”

  1. Did you hap­pen to see the news video on cnn​.com regard­ing this? They inter­viewed a bunch of “moms” who were/seem appalled by the killer whale act­ing, well, like a killer whale.

  2. I’ve always won­dered what goes on in the whale’s mind when it’s doing those tricks. At some point they must real­ize how easy it would be to just take a bite…