I’m sure all of our animal trainers were aware of Tilly’s incidents and behaviours prior to the accident, but the excitement of being an animal trainer at SeaWorld is like… an ego booster.”ģ. According to our textbook answer, ‘all animals trainers spend years in husbandry before even getting a chance to interact with our killer whales.’ Pfft, as if! Throw a SeaWorld Parks internship in animal training (3 months), a bachelors in ‘marine biology,’ a year or two of full-time work, and you can be petting Tilikum before you’re even old enough to rent a car. “The median age of employees at SeaWorld Orlando is 16-25 for good reasons of course! To suppress local wages and to keep most of our front-line employees clueless. One former SeaWorld worker dished the dirt on everything at the park from the lack of training, young employees and the dangers involved on Reddit. Tilikum was responsible for the deaths of two people before killing Dawn Brancheau – but that didn’t stop SeaWorld from letting trainers get in to the water with him, or going too close for that matter. “The progress was slow, but the climax to the experiments came unexpectedly and suddenly (the jokes and puns are just writing themselves, I know).”Īnd for anyone interested in this sort of thing, apparently “dolphins are ‘hung’ much like a human.” But killer whales were often referred to as ‘Pink Periscopes’ and, as the trainer says “at 6ft long, were not easily overlooked.”ĩ. Once on his back, he was stroked and stimulated.“ The whales/dolphins were signalled to roll over and present. “We worked out of the view of the public (a lesson we learned the hard way), and tried to probe, persuade, and elicit a response from the whales and dolphins. One former SeaWorld trainer tells all and reveals way too much information about the reproductive shenanigans going on behind closed doors at SeaWorld: Which means it’s someone’s job to massage a killer whale until it reaches a happy ending. SeaWorld is all about the practice of artificial insemination. If you hear the phrase, ‘bred in captivity’ and think – hey, at least the animals are getting some … you’d most often be wrong. A SeaWorld Owned Orca Killed A Man In Spain The desperation you see in some of these animals, like the dolphins, makes you think twice.”ġ2. “The psychological damage happening to these animals is something that made me want to talk about it in the first place. They are TRAINED to perform for food – like a robot in a way.” It’s good, but the ‘positive/negative conditioning’ they use to train these animals is borderline psychological torture. Nothing’s really changed in terms of the care they receive. What has been confirmed is the harsh realities of life for performing animals.Ī former ‘Entertainment Ambassador’ at SeaWorld Orlando gives their take on their two year stint at the park, saying: “The conditions at SeaWorld Orlando, honestly, have been static. Some former trainers deny this, because who wants to be in the water with a hungry killing machine, right? Others say it’s true. The jury’s out on whether the parks withhold food for bad behaviour. If you’ve visited SeaWorld, you may have seen trainers rewarding whales and dolphins with small fish for good behaviour. Did SeaWorld Employees Really Sell Dolphins To Restaurants? Check out our list of jaw-dropping confessions to see why SeaWorld is just as dark as PETA says it is. Sure you may have fond memories of visiting the park as a kid, but given what’s been revealed by Blackfish and former employees blowing the lid off the park’s secrets, it’s probably time for SeaWorld to close its doors. You’ll also begin to understand why so many people want SeaWorld closed. Via a series of disturbing confessions we’ve tracked down from SeaWorld workers, you’ll learn about the horrifying way SeaWorld gets its animals, what the guests get up to when no one’s looking and the horrible way one employee paid off their student loan. Sadly for the orcas and other animals in SeaWorld’s parks, the worst stories you’ve heard pretty much check out. Have you been to SeaWorld and wondered what it’s really like behind the scenes? Maybe you watched Blackfish and wondered if the documentary’s claims are really true? The only way to truly know would be to talk to people that have worked for SeaWorld.
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