{"id":677984,"date":"2010-02-28T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=94722"},"modified":"2010-02-28T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:07:15","slug":"tilikum-killer-whale-involved-in-trainer-death-will-remain-at-seaworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677984","title":{"rendered":"Tilikum, Killer Whale Involved In Trainer Death, Will Remain At SeaWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite an outcry from <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/02\/animal-activists-call-for-end-to-sea-world-captive-orcas-tilikum.html\">celebrities and animal rights activists<\/a>, Tilikum &#8212; the killer whale responsible  for the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau at SeaWorld Orlando last Wednesday &#8212; will <em>&#8220;remain an active contributing member of the team, despite what happened\u2026No animal is ever subject to any punishment and Tilikum is no exception,&#8221;<\/em> SeaWorld owners said Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Dawn-Brancheau-Picture.jpg?resize=490%2C323\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dawn Brancheau Picture\" width=\"490\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-94434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Brancheau, Tilikum has been linked to at least two other human deaths in the past 20 years. Eyewitnesses say the orca used Brancheau&#8217;s ponytail to drag her off a platform and into the whale tank, where she later drowned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/w0X5ygW-TqrwR-_CoSUA4Tfppaw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/w0X5ygW-TqrwR-_CoSUA4Tfppaw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/w0X5ygW-TqrwR-_CoSUA4Tfppaw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/w0X5ygW-TqrwR-_CoSUA4Tfppaw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite an outcry from celebrities and animal rights activists, Tilikum &#8212; the killer whale responsible for the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau at SeaWorld Orlando last Wednesday &#8212; will &#8220;remain an active contributing member of the team, despite what happened\u2026No animal is ever subject to any punishment and Tilikum is no exception,&#8221; SeaWorld owners said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}