The Most Brutal Orca Attacks: Tilikum's Tragedy  

I know it sounds bad but I was relieved when Tilikum passed because finally he wouldn’t be stuck in a concrete pool and forced to be the grand finale of a show profiting off of the mistreatment of animals.

This is disgusting abuse of noble giants of the seas. This needs to be banned forever.

Tilikum didn’t commit any “murders”? Why would you even say that? It’s a wild animal doing what he should when being kept hostage for decades. Wouldn’t you at least try to kill the people who’s holding you captive away from your family and taking away your freedom keeping you in a small bathroom?

Sad because orcas are magnificent and intelligent creatures that don't deserve to be imprisoned and tortured for our damn amusement!

All those who were involved in keeping these orcas in captivity are responsible for those deaths, this whole animal captivity/circus/animal cruelty leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth.

This is a sad story. Poor Tilikum…Far away from his family , a lot of stress and NO FREEDOM!! It should be prohibited to to keep the Orcas in captivity !!!😢

Stolen when he was two, abused for the rest of his life. How the f did they think he would turn out😠

Stop using these majestic creatures for entertainment! It’s heartbreaking to see how animals suffer in captivity. Let them free!!! 🐬

This shit should be illegal. To capture these beautiful majestic creatures. It really pisses me off 🤬

The poor whale was ripped away from his family, exploited and had no down time, even if he was injured. He was so unhappy. I feel so bad for this handsome and majestic creature. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

The sad story of Tilikm 😢

These large animals should never be confined for the enjoyment of people. Sick and sad.

The video of Tilikum's abduction is terribly sad. His family would not leave him even after being on the boat. He cried out for his mother, and his family cried for him. He was barely a toddler. Orcas mature about the same as humans. Females and even some males will never leave their mothers side.

Poor baby I feel so bad those cuts where so bloody and he had no where near enough space at least he’s resting and peaceful now

Whales should not be kept in captivity.

That poor baby, his life must have been pretty much unbearable from the second he was snatched from his family. Imagine taking a two year old child, leaving it with bigger kids that slice it open with knives day in and day out whilst trapped in a tiny room and then forcing that child to perform circus tricks all day every day. Sounds beyond comprehension? Well that’s what they did to him and then act surprised when he fights back. Humans are disgusting!!!

Why didn't seaworld see his fin? It's time to ban these parks, it's so wrong. Money over caring..,

Rest in peace.

It was disgusing that they used Tillicum to create more victims of SeaWorld. These creatures have family social structures and relationships and education to live in their ocean homes. I would not be surprised if his mom mourned his capture her whole life. Female orcas carry deceased babies for days and days.

I still don’t understand how the concept of sea world was created without considering the effects of close quarters captivity.. if I wanted to make a safe haven for performing marine life, I would consider mimicking what would actually accommodate the animal. I just don’t see how you throw orcas in to dolphin tanks and think they’ll be good. They dive deep and swim far daily. Of course the animal will eventually react in violence. The years of frustration and abuse. They would drug up the orcas big time too. Wild wild concept. Unless you can mimic actual habitat then I’d say leave them be.

I hate all the trainer's that treated him bad

That’s so bad making him be the father of so many whales and they were forcing it

& they wonder why Tillicum attacked & killed humans 😡Tillicum was kidnapped taken from his mother at 2 yrs old, took to a small little pool with 2 adult females who was mean abused Tillicum & Tillicum was deprived & starved of food trying to make him preform & do as the trainers wanted, & if Tillicum didn’t do what they wanted Tillicum didn’t get feed…

These are not pets, or poodles, they belong free. People need to learn that. Imagine that was you, we all would be driven crazy like these poor animals

Killer whales will always be my favorite animal

They need to let all the ANIMALS free from Captivity unless they wanna keep them from HUNTERS

I feel so bad for Tilikum in the beginning 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 but at-least no more killing tho.. but like he was put with bullies and no space.

Why did he kill only 3??????? 😢

All of this is criminal. Where are all the protests for this kind of thing.

This world is sick....all those people that visit places like that and are happy are under dark hypnosis...they have no empathy or clear judgment ....and the trainers remind me of the crazy sick parents this world is full with...".Kids we just want you to obey and do what we want or we will destroy/punish you (well they get destroyed either way) but we do it from love kids...... Dystopian movies are pure reality, people are soulless

There are many reasons. Killer Whale males stay with their mothers most of their lives. The female will part earlier and are independant at a younger age. Killer Whales are hunters. They are an Apex predator in the wild and because they travel in pods, they are usually successful at hunting. They love hunting When he was put in with the females they had been independent for longer, were more aggressive and rejected him. Im sure he would do his best to fight them off or avoid them but in closed quarters there is nowhere really to go. SeaWorld should have done more to protect him. His abuse caused him to take out his aggressions on the people he could, his trainers.

Thats crazy the lung infection is what effected this amazing creatures amazing system.

Poor guy😢

Even though it's sad, BUT.... People who do this to wild animals don't deserve anything less and I have very little pity for these people.

It breaks my heart.....

The worst is when they took calves from their mothers without caring that the grief is so painful. One mother was crying out a long distance call to try to locate her calf. The owners had their staff tell the customers that their Orcas lived a long 25 - 30 years but in the wild they had the lifespan as humans. Totally disgusting all round.

It should be illegal worldwide to keep any wild species in captivity....

That ponytail story was a lie they just blaimed dawn for having long hair when in reality he grabbed her arm and swallowed it

How would you feel if you were ripped from your family?

Everyone of those trainers support abuse and people who pay to watch these shows do too. It's absolutely not natural for these beautiful creatures to be kept in captivity for humans entertainment and experimental activities. How is this legal?

don't ever abuse super smart animals like orca/dolphin , crow, elephant, gorilla, horse, Chimpanzee, peace guys

The fact that a whale that is designed to travel 40 miles as his territory that little pool is a cage. Like putting a human in a dog crate and wondering why they are upst?? So cruel

Poor baby!!!!

With all the traumatic events he had to endure because of humans, i'm surprised he killed only 3 of us. He must have had the patience of a saint, to not try to kill every human who came close.

This is extremely sad. I've never and will never go to Sea World. They also treat them bad 😡

Bro was broken hero in irl

The cause...... Human greed .. specifically when under rules of corporation.. who thinks...that kidnapping a child from their family ciuld ever ve abytgibg other thenva terrible and shiuld b. That only have profit as their goal. ..so they ignored what experts said and continued to go with their park paid personal opinion... The solitary confinement was very in humane....

Should be charged for stealing that orca.. like bull fighting Leave animals alone in the wild I hope it’s banned now

The pony tail, probably looked like a fish to him attached to her head. "Tug O War", I doubt that. Keeping animals caged is an abuse of nature as a whole. In my opinion, none of these beautiful animals are to blame, only humanity for wanting to make money out of them for entertainment pleasure. RiP Tilikum.

Poor Tilikum was so large and he was kept in the tiniest pools for too long time. Just seeing his curled fin is breaking my heart. It's even more heart wrenching to watch dolphins and whales in Captivity being so desperate to beg for the bad food, small pieces of frozen fish. I know that cetaceans like to show off for humans even in the wild but they for sure do not enjoy being kept in sterile concrete boxes and chlorinated water. I've promised to never visit a dolphin prison when being a kid and I didn't only keep the promise but want people to understand that it's nothing but cruelty to put dolphins and whales into the Puddles Of Shame! There are a lot of great books which reveal the truth about cetacean captivity and things going on behind closed doors! Check out these exposés, they are easy to find.

It´s a disastrous fact that these shows still exist! They should be free and protected by law!

I donˋt blame him

I feel so sorry for these Beautiful animals. They belongs in the sea ❤🐬❤

He was shund because he is not a part of their pod and female are domnate

LACK OF FREEDOM,.........!!!😢

Thank God biologists had to tell us that the ponytail was not the reason Tilikum went insane, or that his "aggression" stemmed from his captivity. We wouldn't have known otherwise. I wish we all banned these horrible places, including zoos, and any other form of animal abuse. Rest in peace Tilikum

Im so sorry for The victims and There families but we really cant blame The orcas, They have bad days just like we all do, Those orcas did not ask to be confined qnd They shouldnt be

Honestly, I don’t feel bad for the people

These beautiful animals, are to be left in the Wild. And not performing . How dare the people of All the sea world's capture them and have them live in a concrete pool for the rest of there life. I'm sorry for all the people who got hurt and lost there life. But at some point any one can snap.

I feel sorry for Tilikum, taken from his family at a young age and over the rest of his life had been placed in different places and different whales, just because they are the same breed doesn't mean that they will always get a long. Battered, bruised and bitten by other orcas, kept in a small tank that he could barely move in I'm not surprised he was aggressive, perhaps trainers spend a couple of days living as he was and see how they get along. His dying was probably a release for him and an end of his awful treatment through out his life. No aquatic life should be kept like this, at the end of the day they are still wild animals and should be treated with the respect they deserve. RIP Tilikum

No Orca should be held in captivity, you have to feel for Tilikum, mistreated every day, held in tiny pools, commanded to perform multiple times a day, its no wonder why he killed 3 people. R.I.P Tilikum

His aggresion became because as a wild animal was so stressed in the tanks

We love you Till❤❤❤

No creature should be held like this , bloody disgraceful in this day and age

Bro was beaten by his own kind and by us it was revenge he needed more area to live properly an£ he was in a group of females and he can’t fight back since he couldn’t move properly it should be illegal to keep orca since thay are so smart

This is animal cruelty! Just people wanting to make money with them. This is fair.

There for he became angry and probably about the time him he eat old girl is when he got lung or health problems

Captured and torn away from family . . . . .imagine doing that to humans

This is heartless....simply Cruel. I wonder where PETA is when all this is going on....

What a sad story! I did not know this was happening.

I'm sorry but the way tilikum's name is pronounced in this video is cringe.. also there's a certain song that has his name in it 🙃

Poor Tillicum

I don’t even feel sorry for the people that died or their families, somewhere deep down they knew what they were doing was wrong and that these animals should not be in captivity

When are we as humans going to learn that these beautiful creatures are not meant to be kept in captivity ❤

Poor Tilikum and all others in similar, unnatural settings. RIP 😢💔

Terrible how Tilikum was stolen from his family in the ocean and forced into this chotic entertainment world. My heart breaks for him. 💔

Poor creature… traumatized. Humans are to be blamed for these incidents 100… one creature in captivity for so many years?! This should have been expected

Aww God bless Tilikum, he was so ill treated , he didn't attack because he was bad, he attacked out of frustration. Stop capturing these beautiful creatures, so you can make them perform and you ( whoever you are) can make money 😰😰😰

So, just rehashing black fin?

All these deaths could have been prevented if the people were not greedy, making money to these poor orcas 😢. They need to be left alone in their natural habitations!!

Watch the documentary Blackfish. It is now available free in RU-vid It is excellent, but sad. Orcas should not be in captivity. The documentary goes in depth about Sea World and their culpability in what happened in many orca violence that occurred.

These whales didn’t “murder” these people. They are wild animals and they were being abused. What did everyone think would happen?

Took as a baby, kept in a very small area. These orcas should never be taken from the wild!!! Sea World should be completely responsible for the injuries and loss of lives!!!

That is so sad 😢

People created a monster by abusing this poor, intelligent creature. Tragic all around.

Yes, I agree that tearing Tilikum away from his family at two yrs old started his resentment toward humans. And yes, putting him with whales from different pods just to be abused exacerbated his frustration and anger which commands given by humans, being kept in a man made pool and not being allowed to feed for himself heightened his pent up anger for humans. Then using him as a sexual tool to further sea worlds population by the most unnatural method for an animal to reproduce caused his hate for humans to explode. Animals know what is normal and not normal instinctively and having him roll over so humans could sexually stimulate him in order for them to extract their prize sperm was a horrible blow to Tilikum. I’m surprised he held out as long as he did. Everything negative that happened to Tilikum in his life was caused by humans. Why wouldn’t he hate them? I feel the same about these people out on the ocean in kayaks or paddle boards who think it’s wonderful to interact with killer whales or the ones in boats even just touching whales as they become more tolerant to boats full of humans reaching over the sides to get a stroke so they can say what a magnificent experience they had by touching a whale. For the whale it is not a magnificent experience. It’s not normal or natural. When did it become okay to no longer keep distances from these animals? When big money got involved. Just like at sea world and all the other parks imprisoning wild animals for human profit. Would a park put a trainer in the compound with a lion or grizzly bear and ask those animals to treat that human as they would their prey right up until it was time to actually eat the prey? No! That is why humans should never feed wild animals especially those apex predators who will inevitably become aware of how unnatural and not normal this is and strike back. We can’t leave the wild animals alone and aren’t satisfied to watch them from very far away. We have penetrated their “normal” in every way. Even with bear attacks in the wild, someone is benefiting from attacks on humans who insist on evading normal habitats of bears for the almighty dollar! Let’s sell the story in a book or on you tube. It’s not going to ever change back to that natural normal world where animals aren’t frustrated every day by humans. Humans are just too stupid. It would be better for the animals to never have to live where they are truly not where they should be in normal. They are truly better off extinct.

Tilikum: stolen at birth, abused by other whales, forced to perform, forced to live in a bathtub. Kills 3 people and father of half of SeaWorlds orcas. Wow.what a legacy. RIP king 👑 🐳

This is what happens when you take the ocean's apex predator and put them in captivity to perform for human pleasure. Poor Tilikum lived a horrible life, being a tiny 2 year old ripped away from his mom to live a life in captivity. My heart breaks for him.

More like: The most brutal I've had enough of this sh*t: Tilikum's resignation. Anyone who takes part in this sort of stuff is evil, they think they are not but they are. No truly good person thinks holding these animals captive is ok.

No conscience...no love....no spirit of truth...

This hurts my heart so bad. These people are sick.

Leave the damn animals alone

Such heartbreaking news hearing this

Damn it free tilikums babies 💯 what that @animaldoozy said😅

#emptythetanks

Wow! This is so so sad! I truly understand this poor, poor animal’s pain. He was tortured and abused and mistreated and suffered badly. It’s a shame that terrible, stupid, dumb, greedy humans will do anything for money! It was absolutely ludicrous to continue to have him perform with trainers and in shows after 3 and 4 people had been killed! Especially when they knew that the female Orcas were attacking him AND that his Dorsel fin was damaged. They clearly did not care and were greedy. Americans are so greedy and selfish to start with because it’s cruel to even have/make animals perform for you or entertain you. That’s not what they’re here for. It’s clearly the management of these institutions fault that these people were killed and I’m sorry to say but it’s their fault as well for being careless, naive, unfeeling and/or not thinking that it was wrong to exploit and manipulate these poor animals this way. - May they all RIP, especially the Whale.

Sad indeed. Abuse and confinement!! Let them free!!!!

We miss you Tili, you deserved a free life. Humans are destroying our planet & the beautiful creatures that inhabit it. We do not deserve our lives whilst we knowingly destroy our world & with it, every life form.

Sea world has blood on its hands

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