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Tompkins is head of animal training for all SeaWorld parks...
...surrounded herself with the things she loved--her family, her friends and the animals to which she dedicated so much of her life. Dawn worked with boundless energy and service for her friends, her colleagues and the tens of millions of SeaWorld guests she captivated and inspired through her performances. What greater expression of love is there than that...
When Dawn was just a child, she visited SeaWorld with her family. On that same day, she told her parents she wanted to be a whale trainer when she grew up. Dawn held tight to that dream. But she didn't just become a whale trainer. She became one of the most dedicated and talented trainers SeaWorld would ever know...
...everyone within the whale-studying community takes such a dim view of SeaWorld and other such places. Bernd Wursig, a professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University, acknowledges that the sheer size of whales makes them hard to accommodate well, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. "I don't buy the idea that confinement is what was responsible for Tilikum," he says. "I prefer to see animals in nature, but when they were born in captivity or have been in captivity so long, that socialization is the only one they know...
...scene. Montecore, the white tiger that attacked Roy Horn of the Seigfried and Roy performing team in 2003, was spared when Roy himself insisted on it. Tilikum, too, benefited from merciful judges. Brancheau's relatives pleaded for mercy, and a little more than 24 hours after her death, SeaWorld announced that the whale's life would be spared...