In February 2010, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau entered the stadium for what was supposed to be another routine performance with Tilikum, a 12,000-pound orca she had worked with for years. Seconds ...
Tilikum was SeaWorld’s most famous orca - a massive captive whale who had already been linked to deadly incidents before the world truly knew his name. In 2010, after what seemed like a normal show in ...
ORLANDO People lined up to get into the Orlando park a day after the whale named Tilikum killed veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau as a horrified audience watched. Tilikum had been involved in two ...
The killer whale Tilikum is back in the tank performing in front of crowds, 13 months after killing his trainer. It was the third human the 12,000 pound killer whale has killed. Tilikum grabbed ...
Washington, DC—Tilikum, the SeaWorld orca who changed the captive cetacean world when he killed his trainer, Dawn Brancheau, at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010, has died. He was approximately 36 years of age ...