But Tilikum’s difficult life, which included his involvement in three human deaths, helped bring about an end to SeaWorld’s orca tricks and breeding. Tilikum, whose life inspired the anti ...

Many of us, though, do have an image of orcas, one informed by films of them performing in aquarium shows, such as those at SeaWorld—swimming in endless circles in tiny, sterile pools or leaping ...

Visitors to marine parks have watched orcas perform all kinds of cute and fun tricks, but these sleek and powerful mammals perform their greatest acrobatics in the wild, without artificial stimulus.

By the time he was six, he had lived in all of SeaWorld’s “orca stadiums ... crowds of spectators laughed and applauded at the tricks he performed.” On November 20, Loro Parque shared ...