No human being has ever been seriously injured or killed by an orca in the wild, but four people have died and dozens have been injured, some very seriously, by captive orcas.
It was because of Dawn's life-long devotion to trying to understand the animals with which we share our planet that thousands of families were able to get close to these marvelous creatures.
Shamu's Twitter musings are no more.
The suspension of the tweeting killer whale's Twitter account comes shortly after the death of Sea World trainer...
While we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal, the survival and well being of the animal may be severely impacted in d...
SeaWorld San Diego, which temporarily closed its Shamu whale attraction on Wednesday after the death of a whale trainer on Florida, has worked to impr...