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Blackfish and the scandal of caged killer whales

After 25 years in a bathtub, you'd be cranky, too

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes, probably. But this is how captive killer whales live. Tilikum is no different from many of these. A 31-year-old orca who was scooped out of the North Atlantic in 1983, aged two, he has spent the remainder of his life in captivity.

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