{"id":5627,"date":"2010-02-24T17:42:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2010-02-24T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:42:34","slug":"tilikum-is-chinook-for-amy-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/tilikum-is-chinook-for-amy-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilikum Is Chinook For &#8220;Amy Bishop&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A killer whale kills a trainer in Orlando, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/22659901\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">all the quotes in the article are supportive of whales<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Killer whale expert Nancy Black said the whale could have been playing and the incident could have been an accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are very intelligent creatures. They have emotions, and feelings. Maybe it was unhappy in the situation, maybe it was bored,&#8221; Black said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this particular Orca has killed before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTilikum, the whale believed to be involved in Wednesday&#8217;s incident, was also involved in the death of a part-time trainer in Canada in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, a 27-year-old South Carolina man somehow entered a whale tank at SeaWorld Orlando after park hours and drowned. Daniel Dukes, who was carrying false identification, was found dead with a bite below his waist, according to autopsy results. He was bitten by Tilikum.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we were a civilization on the upswing, Tilikum would be lighting lamps in Florida tomorrow night.  But we&#8217;re not, so this beast will get passed along to another park and will lie low for a couple years before it snaps up another extra from the human race.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/killer-whale-kills.html\" target=\"_blank\">Althouse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A killer whale kills a trainer in Orlando, and all the quotes in the article are supportive of whales: Killer whale expert Nancy Black said the whale could have been playing and the incident could have been an accident. &#8220;They are very intelligent creatures. They have emotions, and feelings. Maybe it was unhappy in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}