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Captive animals have acted violently before. In 2006 an orca (a.k.a. killer whale) at SeaWorld in San Diego attacked its trainer, who survived. That summer an elephant killed its handler at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. In 2004 a gorilla at the Dallas Zoo went on a rampage, injuring four people. A white tiger critically hurt illusionist Roy Horn, half of the performing duo Siegfried & Roy, at the Mirage Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas in 2003. More recently, in February 2007, a jaguar at the Denver Zoo killed a keeper. Despite these, among other dramatic attacks, some people wonder...
...forgiven for thinking you're sitting on the Michelin Man with Van Heereveld's Q-Couch. It's not inflatable, but it's made from the same expanded polypropylene used for side-impact protection in car design. Like the Belgian company's similarly vibrant Sliced and Orca ranges, this is playground furniture for grownups. http://feek.be
...trips he used to enjoy. He leaped at Angela's offer to fish together at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska. She picked a lodge that provided guided trips on comfortable boats, packed lunches and cleaned their catch each day. They caught lots of fish, saw pods of orca whales and watched a school of Dall's porpoises. Angela had worried that father and daughter, both stubborn, might "butt heads," but she found it easy to defer...
...tribute to his ancestors, Geisel did one ad in semi-German: "Quick Heinrich, Das Flit" (Should it be "Raus"?) The campaign expanded to book form, with a collection of the published ads, and a promotional movie, produced by Warner Bros. It showed a whale being menacing by a mosquito; Orca snarls, "Quick Jonah! The Flit!" and a man in a polka-dot bathing suit emerges from the whale's mouth to repel the attacker...
...extraordinary effort, but then again, this was no ordinary cetacean. The 22-ft.-long, 10,000-lb. orca with the droopy dorsal fin was none other than Keiko, the star of the 1993 hit movie Free Willy. In the film, Keiko plays a killer whale condemned to a life in cruel captivity until released to ocean freedom through the efforts of a small boy. The part came easily to Keiko, whose real life story paralleled Willy's, and the movie inadvertently made his plight known worldwide. Now, in an ambitious experiment, a dedicated team of scientists, animal behaviorists, trainers, divers...