Opposing Views: Tilikum the killer whale speaks about Seaworld attack

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Opposing Views: Tilikum the Killer Whale Speaks About SeaWorld Attack
Opinion by Tilly the killer whale
(3 Hours Ago) in Society / Animal Rights

Hey, America. It's Tilikum the killer whale. Everybody's been asking for a statement about "what happened in the tank" a couple of days ago, so I thought I'd give my perspective here. I've been labeled a "troubled fish" with a "violent past" who may even be a "serial killer." So it's time I stood up -- so to speak -- and defended myself against these accusations.

First, a quick marine biology lesson: I am a giant, fast, fierce sea creature with razor-sharp teeth. Think T-Rex with fins. I am not a cuddly stuffed animal, although that's how I'm strangely depicted in the prison gift shop. Don't you guys watch the Discovery Channel? To review, it's in my nature to pounce and dive and roll and basically thrash delicious sea lions to death -- then eat them. Blood, flesh, bones and all.

Anyway, in my mind, I'm just fast-forwarding past the part in my life when I was taken from the great, expansive ocean home of my childhood by some type of wheeled truck. That sucked. I was really making progress with this one orca...oh, went off on a tangent. Right, focus Tilly.

So up until "the incident" I spent my days in the water prison eating dead fish and playing around with odd-looking sea lion-like creatures who threw dead fish at me all day. Honestly, I don't really know what they were doing but schools of other weird animals apparently liked to watch me swim around, roll over, eat dead fish and play.

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