Laura Vandervoort lends her rockin body to animal rights group PETA as part of their campaign against alleged abuses of killer whales at SeaWorld entertainment parks. Conditions at the popular parks were exposed in the documentary “Blackfish.” The film focused on the death of popular trainer Dawn Brancheau....
contain the damage caused by the searing documentary “Blackfish,” launched a new public relations blitz yesterday that only served to re-ignite the controversy more than a year after the film premiered. The company pushed the issue back into the limelight by filing a Labor Department complaint yesterday (Feb. 28)....
The parent’s of an eight-year-old girl learned a hard lesson about the dangers of anthropomorphism after a dolphin, often credited with human characteristics, especially in captivity, leaped out of a tank during a feeding frenzy and bit the girl. Jillian Thomas, 8, suffered three puncture wounds on her hand after the aquatic mammal bit her hand in a bid for a piece of fish at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla. Her parents were videoing the event and posted it on YouTube as a warning to others that feeding animals thought to be tame can be dangerous. ...
San Diego trainer Ken Peters was attacked and almost drowned by a killer whale at SeaWorld in a 15-minute ordeal that was captured on video. It’s become a key piece of evidence in a federal investigation. Dawn Brancheu was killed in Feb. 2010 by Tilikum, a whale at SeaWorld’s facility in Orlando, Fla....
