Tilikum's Last Splash - A Tribute
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2017
- On January 6, 2017 Tilikum finally passed away after months of illness. He is finally free after living in captivity for approximately 35 years.
Tilikum educated the world during his lifetime on the horrors of keeping orcas in captivity. He was kept in isolation for much of his life, first in a module at Sealand of the Pacific then at SeaWorld Orlando. This resulted in him causing the death of three people: Keltie Byrnes, Daniel Dukes and Dawn Brancheu. Rest in Peace Tilikum.
Let's not let Tilikum's life or death be in vain. We have to continue to fight for those that are still held in captivity so that one day they can life out the rest of their lives in sea pens.
Rest In Peace! You beautiful, magnificent whale! You deserved SO much better! God forgive us!
Tilly I am so sorry for all that you have been through. Swim free baby and rest in peace
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We have no right to deny any living creature a life of freedom. RIP beautiful boy.
Does that include house pets?
@@tessdurberville711 pets are not Wildlife 🙄
@@WendyMG247 I beg to differ. If you name them, if they come when you call them, if you house them, hand feed them, and teach them tricks for treats, they are pets. Whether they weigh ounces or thousands, of pounds, it is the same.
@@tessdurberville711 🙄
@@WendyMG247 You children are becoming very tiresome. Activism is not a real career. Stay in school and learn to do something useful, other than rolling your eyes.
It's sad that he passed away but I'm so glad he's not in captivity anymore and is free to swim the heavens oceans !! Be free Tilly be free!!
Rest in Peace, dear Tilly! You are not longer suffering.
I'm so sorry Tilly. We didn't get to you in time. I miss you, I love you, swim free Tilikum!💜
Tillikum's last swim was in the ocean before they stole him from his natural habitat.
Today is the first time I’ve looked at this since Tily died and I couldn’t stop crying, love you Tily 🐳
God bless you, Tilikum. .you are loved
Yes,. Tilly is with God. He is swimming in the oceans of heaven.
@@margui6224 Amen! ❤🌈🙏🥺💔
If Dawn were alive I doubt she would've blamed Tilly for what happened to her. She loved him and all the orcas so much. More than people thats for certain. Rest in peace beautiful boy and beautiful Dawn 💔
Beautiful boy has been jailed all his life
Rip tilly💔
To see the starkness of the tank and know that he was denied the beauty of his natural born home just makes me so sad
The oceans are polluted and dangerous. vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/u-s-navy-tests-will-put-endangered-b-c-orcas-at-risk-say-experts-1.5076832
R. I. P sweet orca, your finally free
So sad...how heartless letting people watch him like that, you can tell he isn't well :(
Continue to R.I.P Tilly! You didn't deserve to suffer at the hands of humans
Poor fella. Brought tears to my eyes. I remember seeing one of (I guess) Shamu's kids at Seaworld Orlando in the 80s. I was just a boy so I thought "what a great life for that whale."
The SADDEST thing about Tilikum is that when they quit putting him in shows, he probably thought he was being punished and didn't know why. That is FUCKING HEART BREAKING.
How lonely and confused must poor Tillikum have been then. You're right. He probably thought, "Hey, I'm all alone. Where are my friends?"
He was too intelligent to not know what he did to Dawn
He absolutely was punished after he killed Dawn. They kept him in the med pool for almost a year if I remember correctly.
@@sarahposelittlemissanthrop7786 punished for defending himself from all their damn Animal CRUELTY! POS 💩 humans
@@sarahposelittlemissanthrop7786 And i heard from a former SeaWorld trainer, who's name I won't disclose said that it's actually illegal for them to keep the orcas in the med pool for prolonged periods.
Poor Guy, Rest In Peace Tilikum.
I hope you continue to RIP Tilly,may your big Beautiful soul swim forever and be free i the ginormous oceans in heaven.
Ginormous is not a word.
BOoooooooooooooh to those people
RIP..Tilikum. I hope the other orcas that remain do not have to die to experience the freedom they so need & deserve. My heart breaks for these poor creatures.
#EmptyTheTanks
EXACTLY!!!!!
Your free now Tilly, go live out your dreams. I'm sorry our human race failed you. ❤💔
God rest gis poor beautiful tortured soul 💔
It's hard to watch. This beautiful animal and his buddies are sad.the dorcil fin is down this makes me cry. If ppl stop paying to see them like this they could be living their lives where they belong in the ocean
I LOVE YOU TILY! You are blessed! It's so sad that you died! 😭
I love you tilly I'm so sorry what you've been through rest in peace
Thanks for this beautiful tribute i got tears in my eyes now and in the name of all the animals thank you so much for everything you do for the voiceless Greetings from me and my furbabies in Sweden
Long may his spirit roll on.
rip tili! enjoy your freedom !!😢🐳🐬🌹
It is a wonder Tili did not go ballistic and kill every trainer he could get his mouth close to, considering he must have been going stir crazy in his small monotonous world. Cetacean captivity is immoral and criminal. These mammals are evolved and highly intelligent and social, family oriented beings.
poor guy. he was huge.
such an angelic creature, truly so heartbreaking😔
Seaworld slowly killed this animal after forcing him into captivity as a baby from the wild. He couldn't perform anymore so they kept him in a tiny pool until he died and it took years. Seaworld needs to end!
Your comment proves you know next to nothing about SeaWorld
メKawaiiYanderleeメ keep being delustional. 👍
@@Sugaree43 The word is: Delusional. Why are all anticaps illiterate? Is it hereditary?
@@tessdurberville711 Fuck off animal abuser 👍
@@Sugaree43 You are all discourteous and profane as well. You should change your name to something more suitable. Orcas prefer polite, intelligent, respectful interactions. They would not want to know you.
Hope his spirit is swimming in the ocean.
So very sad, may his and #Blackfish legacy be that the Orca shows all stop and they finally #EmptyTheTanks of ALL cetaceans xx
Chinese people laugh at you
RIP Beautiful Tilly it pains me a lot knowing how the human race treated you❤
you are free now tilly
RIP big boy
RIP Tilikum :'(
RIP i always know that it’s horrible to have orcas in captivity
He was older than that!!! God bless his family and original pod. May he now swim with them forever!
I'm crying now.
Tilikum is now free of the indignity of captivity. Had he been left in the wild, where he belongs, his life could have been so different. I am totally in support of the establishment of seaside sanctuaries to allow ex-captive marine mammals the chance to live a life of some normality - to retire gracefully. Surely we owe them that much having taken them from their families in the wild and making them live with artificial 'families' in a concrete tank?
Margaux Dodds agreed
Rest tilikum. I'm so sorry my kind did what they did to you. Magnificent creature again I apologise. Xx
Margaux Dodds 😢 Always in my 💔
Agree me too
"Families"? Every adoptive parent would like to slap your face.
I miss u tilikum RIP love this guy man
Thank you for a wonderful remembrance of this magnificent orca that touched my heart. I will never forget him. I am lucky, I have been able to see him on a continuing basis since his first arrival to Orlando Sea World. It's a great loss for all those who came to love this magnificent orca and for the children, grand children and great children who may never have an opportunity to learn what magnificent creatures orca's truly are.
You don't have to see orca in captivity to learn about them. In fact, an orca in captivity are nothing like orcas in the wild. Look at how many children love and learn about dinosaurs.
Oh, Gayle, my blood runs cold reading your post. It is because of all the people who paid their money to look at something that is completely artificial, the same as the dancing bears in Russia, and made Seaworld nothing but money. They did not care about the orcas one bit. Just one example: anyone who has read a single thing about whales knows they are creatures who communicate with each other. Ships in the ocean are encouraged to run as quietly as possible because NOISE is harmful to whales! What about Seaworld?? Couldn't find a place that would hurt your ears or your head more than that place, and especially when the whale shows were on!!
Thanks Tilly for enlighten our minds that their should be no killer whales nor other wild animals be captive for entertainment!!!I prayed that the true happiness is within you(3
RIP Tilikum u are FREE now 🙏💔 and I pray to God ur story touches so many people and they open there eyes and soon all the captive Orcas will be FREE and no more prisons
I m very Happy that he got freedom after 34 Years captivity. May God free his companions very soon and other animals as well.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-20m-lessons-of-freeing-keiko-the-whale/
DEAR TILLY, REST IN PEACE AND SWM TO JESUS
RIP Tilikum. Your cries didn't go unheard, I hope you're happy swimming in the endless ocean you always deserved back up in heaven
Vαɴιllα Eѕѕeɴce they probably haven't stopped they'll just do in secret now.
You obviously know nothing about SeaWorld
He looked kinda happy just freely spinning and playing with the other Orca.
The other orca is his grandson named Trua. He was pretty much the only whale that visited or interacted with him. Its very sweet though.
RIP PRECIOUS TILIKUM!!! YOU ARE NOW FREE!!! 🥺💔🌈🙏
love you Tilikum rip
Aww so sad 😭 please rest in peace buddy you are in heaven your my other half life
So sorry Tilikum! R.I.P. Sweet Boy. May you be swimming in the ocean's of heaven!
Poor guy. He was abused his whole life. They wonder why he went crazy. Those whales in the wild swim over 200 miles a day. And there he was stuck in a fish bowl with all his teeth falling out....
Zoey Kelley Two hundred miles a day 🤭.
@@tessdurberville711 NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU POS LIKE YOU THINK SINCE YOU SUPPORT ANIMAL CRUELTY!!!!!
I still cry and grieve for Tilly and all he suffered.
#empty the tanks
Tilly you live in my heart with all the love and respect you deserve.
His is swimming up in heaven now 😢😕but I'm happy for him. and I'm a big killer whale fan.he's up there with dawn now.his a big funny dork I'm happy for him 🙂
Tilly I'm truly sorry for the life u lived in a cramped swimming pool. It surly wasn't fair on you or the way they treated you for their money making entertainment. Your entertainment was meant to have been a like of freedom in the big Blue ocean with ur family and friends. At least you now have that freedom to roam free gorgeous boy. Rest in peace tilly.
Tilly had suffered to long and truly had a life sentence without parole never seeing freedom but I noticed in this video that not only did his dorsal fin curve showing Heath issues as been pointed out but his actual birthday tail ended up deformed preventing swimming issues unlike a healthy orca would have such as the baby here has. I never seen his tail in other videos like that but I am going to check.
The moment I saw Tilikum I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I’m 13 years old and I am raising money to populate orcas. At least he doesn’t have to suffer being in captivity, he’s in heaven swimming freely! No matter his size he’s always gonna be my baby boy 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I think you need to look up what populate means?
If you gave them a choice they wouldnt choose us they would choose to be free....born free r.i.p Tilly you was a great killer whale no matter what you did you was just being a whale ❤
What a magnificent creature...
God bless you tilikum xx my heart breaks for all the torment and suffering you and yours have gone through may it all end now and no more will suffer on this planet going forward.....
Very sad...pitiful that humans did this. He would have been leader of his pod...and lived another 50 yrs or so. The killer whale Granny they tagged lived to be 100...
Jenn Brooke 1) The Matriarch of the pod is female.
2) Males seldom live to fifty.
3) Granny was eighty-five.
4) Blackfish lied.
This just makes me weeeeeeeep. I LOVE Tilikum, Seaworld deserves to get burned down. Like all zoo's and marine parks do.
I miss you Tilikum so much
Dear son RIP❤🙏🙏🙏
I hate how the description says he FINALLY DIED.
Tilikum lived lived a depressing and boredom life and to say he finally died is just wow.
Why does sea world have to do this
you are in thar torture place you are with your mother in heaven
I bet they mistreated him after he killed that trainer
😭😭😭😭😭😭❤RIP
F sea world. Rip tilikum
Olho pra ele e fico imaginando o tamanho da dor desse animal, imagino o qto sentia falta de sua familia, pq os laços desses animais são eternos
please empty the tank
QUE HERMOSO Y QUE TRISTE SU COLA DOBLADA AL IGUAL QUE SU ALETA EN ESA PEQUEÑA PILETA DANDO VUELTAS EN CÍRCULO!!!!! COMO PUEDEN PAGAR UNA ENTRADA PARA VER ÉSTE ASESINATO!!!!😡😢ELLOS DEBEN ESTAR EN EL MAR CON SU FAMILIA!!!!! CUANTO DAÑO HACEMOS LOS SERES HUMANOS!!!!!
I don’t know about this subject but couldn’t they at least make the environment in the pool sort of like an oceanic ecosystem? They were probably too cheap. But you know, like with plants and stuff. And why couldn’t they feed them live food so they could hunt a little.
Tilikum. That poor orca was worked to all to make the big bosses richer I hope there happy he was so beutyful all the orcas are r i p tilikum 🌹🌹🌹
R.I.P Tilly we will miss seeing you perform SeaWorld won't be the same
Tilikum hasn't performed in a long time because he has been so sick. This is what happens after years in captivity being fed drugs on a daily basis. He is finally free.
Ik tilly can't read the constitution moments but I'm literally crying I'm never going back to seaworld again I can't look at that tank without thinking of him and all those times I saw him
Watch the film Blackfish
Andrea Danford that's what killed him seaworld should close down for good
Andrea Danford Don't you get it your ignorant and people like you are the ones that kept his abuse going by buying tickets to those bullshit shows he didn't want to perform you didn't want to perform he should've perform maybe you should be the big whale performing you ignorant schlepp. Get a clue. He was precious and I
They should have released him. One day of freedom would have been worth it!
Tell that to Keiko. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-20m-lessons-of-freeing-keiko-the-whale/
Tillicum was my fav whale
E muito triste ver um animal deste tamanho preso em um tanque. Como deve ser estressante para eles, ter um oceano imenso para ser livres e estão ali em um tanque preso e ter que fazer coisas para bando de turistas. O ser humano so pensa em si mesmo.
Que llore dice...😭😢😣
I think the last four years of his life was spent in the back of the park in a small tank.
#emptythetanks
They won’t train him
If he dies it’s the trainers fault they don’t want to touch him I worry about him
Cruel bastards So ignorant!!! Abducting a baby from its mother in the wild. They have made karma for themselves.
This is actual so fucking sad wow
RIP tilikum and all the other whales that have died at seaworld these whales should not be in captivity for the pleasure to perform in front of crowds they belong in the sea as God intended.
vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/u-s-navy-tests-will-put-endangered-b-c-orcas-at-risk-say-experts-1.5076832
I’ve heard that the dorsal fin bent way over means the animal is in a great deal of stress. I hope Tillikam is at peace, now. I don’t believe he meant to kill Dawn but something just went horribly wrong.
Blackfish ☹☹☹☹
People need to know that capture is a crime,stop visiting Aquariums and stop bring your child see this places
Beautiful video..who is that little one by his side?They are enjoying themselves
That is Trua, who was often put with him to "keep him company" since he was often left drugged and isolated.
What will happen to Trua? He must be traumatized now that Tilli is gone. Does anyone know the circumstances of Tilli's death - was he found dead, or were any of the trainers with him when he died? There is talk of killing him for the insurance...
Whilst Seaworld hasn't provided any information on the necropsy yet, about a year before his death (early 2016) Seaworld mentioned that Tilikum was suffering from a chronic bacterial lung infection that could one day lead to his death. He had been sick on and off for the last few years of his life with multiple bouts of pneumonia. I suspect he was being kept in the med pool under observation at his time of death as the trainers and vets would have known he was close to death. Seaworld released this statement “The SeaWorld family is deeply saddened to announce that one of its most well-known orcas, Tilikum, has passed away,” it read. “Tilikum passed away early this morning surrounded by the trainers, care staff and veterinarians that provided him around-the-clock world-class care.”
Trua will carry on living his life in captivity like the remaining living orcas, he will get over the loss of Tilikum just like humans get over the loss of a person. I hope that Seaworld finally come to their senses and give these last remaining orcas in captivity a chance of freedom by releasing them into sea pens so they can have more enrichment and experience a more natural environment. That is something Tilikum never had a chance to experience after being taken from the wild to perform in the Seaworld circus.
Romulan2469 Thank you so much for replying. I too hope that Seaworld will do the right thing and have all their orcas released into sea pens.
I would like to produce a "Draw my life" Tilikum Edition. Am I allowed to use your video here? I would credit you for sure and put a link to your channel in the video. Thank you. Great video
Miyuki Tiervideos mit Herz I would love to talk to you about this more. Please email me at heather@oceanadvocatenews.com
Thanks
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Wow even his tail deformed 😕
Um, it's not deformed, all male orcas have bent flukes, wild or captive...
メKawaiiYanderleeメ tail is natural for his size but his dorsal fin was caused by being out of water to much that is rarely seen in the wild