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A reality star was moved to tears while begging SeaWorld to free its oldest killer whale. Since the release of Blackfish (2013), SeaWorld has been in a constant battle with animal rights activists and ...

After 57 years, a Florida Park will release its killer whale back into the wild – but her trainers aren’t too happy. Keeping orcas in captivity is controversial, to say the least. While the likes of ...

January 6, 2023 marks the six-year anniversary of the death of Tilikum—one of the most famous orcas in the world. The orca—which was in captivity for 33 years—died at SeaWorld Orlando and is infamous ...

One autumn afternoon in 1993, Amy Simon’s mother brought home a VHS tape of Free Willy, the boy-meets-whale tale that became a sleeper hit across North America that summer. Living in the tiny ...

In this book, the award winning architect of Tilikum Crossing, Donald MacDonald, and co-author Ira Nadel, tell the story of Portland through its bridges. Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People: ...

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In 2010, a captive whale named Tilikum killed his trainer, Dawn Brancheau, by grabbing the 40-year-old woman’s ponytail and pulling her into the water. This was the third death of a human that ...

As legally required, SeaWorld notified the federal government how its infamous killer whale Tilikum died: of bacterial pneumonia. Other details about his health and death, such as whether he had ...

Tilikum died on Jan. 6. In a kinder world he world he would be a vibrant, middle-aged dominant male, like a chief in a pod of orcas, swimming 100 miles a day. In the interest of corporate greed, ...

As I sit down to write this column, news is flooding in about the death of Tilikum, SeaWorld’s most notorious killer whale. The cause of death is yet to be released. But it is known that Tilikum was ...