Brilliant Creatures - Killer Whales

R.I.P Kim 2.He was such a pretty whale.

I like the way he described these animals. Sure, it's a little dramatic, but he is not sugar coating the fact these are wild killers that can have a bad day like any of us and are unpredictable. Sometimes, I fear people get the impression that these are "cute little cuddly animals". No, they are "magnificent giant killer beasts" and when we label them like this, you respect them more.

kassykalia, the public can learn ALOT MORE about orcas by seeing them in their natural habitat, breaching and spyhopping. what do you learn about an orca seeing it perform countless premeditated tricks? Educating the public is used as a guise to cover the fact that seaworld and other marine parks rake in the profit from animals such as these. If you think there i nothing wrong with captivity, do the research.

i did a camp at sea world and learned about the whales, i did ask why there dorsal fins flop over here and not in the wild, they said something like tailslover450, tailsover you are correct, the whales spend much more time on the surface of the water in captivity then they do in the wild!

Wow!!!! never thought how could you bleed an orca, I'd never be able to do it, I can't even bleed a cow

I agree with tailslover captivity isn't bad it's wnere the public can learn about them up close and personall.

No, that is NOT why they flop over. They flop over because they stay at the surface to long. 23% of the orcas around New Zealand have floped over dorsal fins. What do you say to that?? Don't blame that on captivity.

Actually it is true! Killer whales are healthy and beautiful in the iwld but in captivity their beautiful fiuns get flipped over because of the chlorine and because they are made to come out of the water!

And a video like this is exactly what makes people think the animals enjoy being in captivity...they say "these are KILLER whales (never telling them that they're dolphins or have never attacked people in the wild) they're deadly predators they can bite! etc" so when people see them in a captive environment being dominated by selfish humans, they think "wow, they belong here".

"tHEY BELONG HERE" DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW THEY TREAT the orcas during training. The orcas have nothing, no way to get out to wild, so they have to do what their master tell them to do. If you were grounded you would just stay there with no tv comiputer or telephone how would you feel my brother bad i guess and you have to do what you'r parents tell you to do or they'll even ground you more than a month its the samething to orcas and don't ever say "they belong there"