On February 24, 2010, in the Aquarium of Orlando, USA, the wonderful performance of instructor Blanch and killer whale TillyCombe has just ended.
Blanchett sat on the platform, cooperating with Tilicombe in various photo poses, and the audience was immersed in excitement and kept pressing the shutter.
Who knows, a scene that caught people off guard happened, and the well-behaved and docile Tilikum suddenly bit Blanchcher's arm and dragged her into the water.
People thought Tilikum was playing with Blanche, but there was a pool of blood on the surface of the water.
The audience erupted in screams, and Blanche was killed.
As the popular darling of the aquarium, Tilikum's finale scene is often full, and its cleverness is obvious to all, so why would he suddenly attack Blanche, who has been with him for 10 years?
Afterwards, everyone learned that this man's beloved Tilikum had not killed for the first time, and Blanch's tragedy was not accidental.
In 1981, in the middle of the sea in the Gulf of Iceland, Tilikum was born into a large family of killer whales.
Under the care of the killer whale mother, Tilikum plays with other killer whale babies, learns foraging skills together, and grows freely and happily.
Not surprisingly, Tilikum will roam freely in this sea, where it will breed offspring and survive for at least 50 years.
However, an ordinary foraging session opened up Tilikum's nightmarish life.
The waters of Iceland are rich in fish, attracting a large number of human beings to sail here to fish.
Killer whales, on the other hand, are extremely intelligent, and over the years of experience, they have found it easier to catch a large number of fish that have slipped through the net.
On this day, a large fishing boat attracted the family of Tilikum, who swam around the fishing boat, nimbly catching fish that had slipped through the net, while deftly dodging the net.
Tirikum rushed excitedly to his mother's front, opened his mouth wide, and plunged headlong into the fish.
Mom looked up anxiously and screamed, but Tilikum, who was immersed in the fish, did not pay attention at all, and just then a huge fishing net fell from the sky.
Tirikum screamed and struggled desperately, while the nets grew tighter and tighter, and Mom kept ramming the nets, but to no avail.
A triumphant laugh came from the fishing boat. What Tilikum didn't know was that the captain could be paid handsomely because of his misfortune.
In this way, 2-year-old Tilikum was forced to leave his mother and leave the free sea.
Killer whales, like humans, have high intelligence and are used to living in groups, and the family always moves together and takes care of each other.
Humans can never imagine what leaving their mother would mean for a baby killer whale.
Perhaps, from this time on, Tilikum's resentment toward humanity began to sprout.
Subsequently, after thousands of miles, Tilikum was sold to the Canadian Pacific Ocean Park and thrown into a narrow pool.
At this time, Tilikum was dying, and his tragic fate had just begun.
Killer whales are freedom-loving, and it is extremely cruel to swim hundreds of kilometers every day and trap them.
Tilikum was forced to live in a small pool, which was only 30 meters long and less than 10 meters deep, and worse, there were two other killer whales living in the pool.
He could only circle around in place every day, or float quietly on the surface of the water.
Fortunately, although he did not understand, he was smart and well-behaved, and soon understood that the performance can only have food to survive, and he is friendly to the breeders and trainers.
At the same time, he also became a cash cow for Ocean Park, not only to receive a variety of high-intensity skills training, but also to perform 8 hours a day, all year round.
However, when mistakes and laziness occur, killer whales are punished with a sit-in style.
On one occasion, Tilikum made a mistake during a performance, the keeper did not feed the food all day, and the other two companions in the pool were punished in the same way.
The two well-trained killer whales were very clever, and soon knew who was implicated, and held a grudge against Tilikum.
In the evening, they teamed up to attack Tirikum with their sharp teeth.
Tilikum screamed bitterly, but did not get any response, until they were tired and let go of the scaly Tilikum.
In this way, in the days that followed, Tilikum had to perform with injuries during the day and be attacked by his kind at night.
Under the threat of harsh reality, Tirikum, who has a superior IQ, not only learned to perform difficult skills, but also became a big star in Ocean Park.
However, the pressure released from nowhere, as well as a severe stomach ulcer, made him more and more depressed, and he often floated motionless in the pool quietly.
No one could have imagined that under the quiet appearance of 7-year-old Tilikum, there was a huge crisis hidden.
A student named Kyle at the time, working part-time as a trainer at Ocean Park, got along very well with Tilikum.
On that day, Kyle, who had just finished performing, was walking on the edge of the pool when he accidentally stumbled into the pool of Tilikum.
The originally docile Tilikum suddenly rushed to Kyle like crazy, biting him and dragging him into the water, constantly pulling back and forth, as if to vent the long-suppressed resentment in his heart.
Two other companions rushed over and bit Kyle together.
The rest of the staff were stunned by what they saw, and they couldn't understand why the docile and lovely Tirikum was so cruel.
Eventually, Kyle was torn to death and surfaced, and Tirikum returned to quiet.
After the incident, the world's first killer whale killing attracted the attention of marine biologists.
However, everyone is only curious, and they do not realize that humans have indirectly created the tragedy.
Under the pressure of public opinion, Ocean Park had to stop business, and Tilikum also fell from star to outcast, and they decided to sell him to end the matter.
However, Tilikum's situation did not get better, but instead entered into worse bad luck.
A year later, Tilikum was sold to the Orlando Aquarium and began a cycle of intense performance and training.
What Tirikum could not accept was that after the performance, he would be locked in a canned container with very little water storage, and his movement space became more narrow and more depressing.
Since being kept here, Tilikum has often gnawed on the inner walls of guardrails and containers, and his teeth have been worn out almost entirely.
Suddenly, Tilikum is 16 years old, and with his energetic performance skills and cute appearance, he has once again become a big star in the aquarium.
The audience that came for him was large, and his show was arranged as the finale.
Whenever he followed the trainer and twisted flexibly, throwing the water high with his huge tail, and making all kinds of nice sounds at the audience, the audience would immediately boil, and people would scream at his cute appearance.
But just when Tilikum was in full swing, an amazing thing happened.
One day in July 1999, a man who had just been released from prison sneaked into the aquarium while drunk.
The next day, aquarium staff found the man's body floating in the pool of Tilikum, with multiple bite marks all over his body, and even his genitals had been bitten off.
Apparently, Tilikum had killed again.
However, driven by interests, the aquarium refused to disclose the details, and claimed that the person died because of drowning, and the matter was closed.
By 2004, the 21-year-old Tirikum had reached adulthood, and at the age of mating, he often lingered and frolicked with his favorite female killer whale.
However, the combined bullying of the small space and other killer whales made Tilikum curl up by the edge of the pool again and again in disappointment, emitting heartbreaking whispers.
At this time, the aquarium, which only wanted to make money, saw a greater benefit, they extracted Tilikum's sperm and let other female killer whales artificially conceive.
In this way, Tilikum was forced to become a sperm bank and soon became the father of 13 baby killer whales.
But something even sadder happened.
In order to prevent Tirikum from harming the baby killer whales, the aquarium never let Tilikum see his children, let alone enjoy spend time with them.
At this moment, will Tilikum remember the pain of being forcibly taken away from his mother?
From the day he left the ocean, Tilikum was deeply depressed, he had no family, no friends, and only endless torture.
His heart is filled with endless despair, and his personality is becoming more and more irritable and unpredictable.
Just when Tilikum was pessimistic and lost, the beauty trainer Blanchett entered his life.
Blanchett has loved small animals since he was a child.
Growing up, when Blanche watched a dolphin show, he was impressed by the wonderful interaction between the instructor and the dolphin, and the idea of being an animal instructor came to mind.
In order to realize her dream, Blanchett went to an ocean company in New Jersey to deal with dolphins, and with this work experience, she successfully applied to the Orlando Aquarium.
Blanchett loved the job so much that in 2004 she was assigned as a mentor to Tilikum.
Blanchez was happy, and although she knew that Tilikum's temper was sometimes grumpy, she insisted that she could get along well with Tilikum.
She treated Tilikum as her own child, spent time with him day and night, and did her best to protect him from any punishment or attack.
Under her intimate care, Tilikum will take the initiative to get close to her and play with her in the pool.
For the next 6 years, Blanchche and Tilikum lived in harmony like family, and she became his only comfort, his most trusted human being.
However, Blanchett ultimately underestimated Tilikum, and her gentleness and carefulness were exchanged for Tilikum's deadly attack.
The day after Blanche was killed, newspaper headlines published the aquarium killer whale killing.
At the same time, the aquarium also issued a statement saying that Tilikum was not aggressive and that it was the instructor Blanchett who violated the law and led to death.
However, the Animal Society found that it was because the aquarium had imprisoned Tilikum for many years and cruelly abused him, which led to his violent and moody personality, and attacked Blanch.
Blanchche, who was only an indirect victim of the Tilikum tragedy, took the Orlando Aquarium to full responsibility and took it to court.
Finally, amid the public's condemnation, the court announced that the aquarium prohibited the co-performance of humans and beasts.
Since then, Tyrikom has no longer had a mentor by his side. However, Tiriku still had bad luck.
As the world's largest captive killer whale, coupled with the confusing past experience, Tilikum, who performed alone, was still charming, and the audience who came to watch his performance was still endless.
After that, Tilikum was locked up in a smaller pool, and there were no other partners around, and he continued to perform alone in the aquarium.
Tilikum's temper also became more and more capricious, and he often floated motionless in the water, and instead kept nibbling on the inner wall of the pool, as if to vent the pain in his heart that had nowhere to say.
In fact, so far, wild killer whales have no record of actively attacking humans, on the contrary, they are very friendly to humans.
However, after thirty years of torture and imprisonment, human beings have forced Tilikum from a cute little cute to a "murderous maniac".
In order to find out, someone investigated deeply and made a documentary "Black Whale", in which it was pointed out that the cruel imprisonment of the aquarium was the culprit that led to the murder of Tilikum.
For this reason, the tragic experience of Tilikum and the cruelty of the Orlando Aquarium were exposed, and the people were shocked.
Under pressure from public opinion, in March 2016, the Orlando Aquarium had to announce a permanent end to killer whale breeding and performance.
In 2017, San Diego Marine Park ended its last killer whale show.
Since then, killer whales have finally stopped doing their best to win the hearts and minds of the American people.
However, all this is still one step too late.
In 2017, at the age of 36, Tirikum died of a bacterial infection in his lungs, ending his nightmarish life.
The only fortunate thing is that his tragedy allowed more killer whales to avoid the same fate.
I hope that every killer whale can swim freely in the sea, and I hope that every life can be treated with tenderness.
If you like animals, please don't let them smile for you and forcibly show their cuteness and intelligence.
Let them live freely, that's what we really love animals!
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