Tilikum Film Analysis

We’ve recently watched a documentary about a killer whale named Tilikum and he was captured for sea world and was used for entertainment. It was a good film, but other than just watching a movie and walk away not thinking any differently, it was very revealing about what big companies will do for themselves. In the film they sent a crew of boats to find pods of whales and capture just the children so they can grow up already being trained. I don't think they stop and think about the well being of the whales. They will follow and capture the children and take them away from their family. The main things wrong with these happenings are the whales new habitat they have after being captured, the nature of the whales on the other whales, and the health of the whales.

First is the habitat, the whales new living space is very different than what they should be living in. Big animals need a big area to live their lives, especially killer whales need the big open space of the ocean. When a killer whale is captured and put in a metal tank they and can get very lonely and angry and has no way to let out all of their anger. Killer whales aren't the only animal that is captured and taken away from their families and used for human entertainment. People can say and have …show more content…
In the film we watched, Tilikum attacked a trainer and it was a big surprise to everyone because Tilikum was very nice to everyone and just out of nowhere he killed one of the best trainers they had. It turned out to be the bottled aggression that Tilikum had from being captured and put in a steel tank for the rest of his life as far as the whale knows. When a 23-32ft, 6 ton sea mammal that's the size of a school bus that's meant to be in the ocean is in a steel tank that's probably no bigger than he is, I wouldn't be surprised to see him kill

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