Blackfish

00:26:11,575 --> 00:26:14,912 have a sense of self, a sense of social bonding 475 00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:17,414 that they've taken to another level-- 476 00:26:17,581 --> 00:26:20,084 much stronger, much more complex 477 00:26:20,251 --> 00:26:24,004 than in other mammals, including humans. 478 00:26:24,171 --> 00:26:26,382 We look at mass strandings, 479 00:26:26,548 --> 00:26:29,593 the fact that they stand by each other. 480 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,888 Everything about them is social-- everything. 481 00:26:33,889 --> 00:26:37,434 It's been suggested that their whole sense of self 482 00:26:37,601 --> 00:26:40,980 is distributed among the individuals in their group. 483 00:26:41,146 --> 00:26:42,940 There are five of them. 484 00:26:43,107 --> 00:26:47,027 These orca are going to attack this seal on-- 485 00:26:47,194 --> 00:26:51,907 they've been breaking the ice off and swimming around him. 486 00:26:52,074 --> 00:26:53,826 Oh, here they come, two of them. Lookit, underneath there. 487 00:26:53,993 --> 00:26:55,494 You can see them underneath. 488 00:26:55,661 --> 00:26:58,038 They made a big wave. Look at that, a big wave. 489 00:26:58,205 --> 00:26:59,290 - Oh, yeah. - Whoa. 490 00:26:59,456 --> 00:27:01,917 - Oh, God. - Oh, God. No, no, no. 491 00:27:02,084 --> 00:27:04,420 Oh! Oh, I can't stand it. 492 00:27:04,586 --> 00:27:07,006 If you can't watch the bullfight, you'd better leave. 493 00:27:07,172 --> 00:27:09,925 Oh, yeah, here they go. Look at this-- three of them. 494 00:27:10,926 --> 00:27:11,927 Look at this. Look at this. 495 00:27:12,094 --> 00:27:13,804 Oh, God. Oh, no! 496 00:27:13,971 --> 00:27:15,472 - Oh, God! - It's all over. 497 00:27:15,639 --> 00:27:17,641 Nope, not quite. 498 00:27:17,808 --> 00:27:20,769 Yeah, it's all over. 499 00:27:20,936 --> 00:27:22,688 It's all over. 500 00:27:36,910 --> 00:27:40,414 The First Nations people and the old fishermen on the coast, 501 00:27:40,581 --> 00:27:43,167 they call them "blackfish." 502 00:27:43,334 --> 00:27:47,504 They're an animal that possesses great spiritual power 503 00:27:47,671 --> 00:27:50,090 and they're not to be meddled with. 504 00:27:54,595 --> 00:27:56,764 I've spent a lot of time around killer whales 505 00:27:56,930 --> 00:27:58,474 and they're always in charge. 506 00:27:59,808 --> 00:28:02,519 I never get out of the boat, I never mess with them. 507 00:28:04,438 --> 00:28:06,940 The speed and the power is quite amazing. 508 00:28:14,490 --> 00:28:16,367 Rules are the same as the pool hall-- 509 00:28:16,533 --> 00:28:19,495 keep one foot on the floor at all times. 510 00:28:23,415 --> 00:28:25,918 Even after seeing them thousands of times... 511 00:28:30,839 --> 00:28:32,716 you see them and you still-- 512 00:28:32,883 --> 00:28:34,635 you know, wake up. 513 00:28:47,731 --> 00:28:50,192 He arrived, I think, in 1992. 514 00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:52,694 I was at Whale and Dolphin Stadium when he arrived. 515 00:28:52,861 --> 00:28:57,116 And he's twice as large as the next animal in the facility. 516 00:28:57,282 --> 00:28:58,283 Yay! 517 00:28:58,450 --> 00:28:59,827 The guy is right at about 12,000 pounds. 518 00:28:59,993 --> 00:29:03,288 That's incredible. He looks fantastic. 519 00:29:03,455 --> 00:29:05,582 When Tilikum arrived at SeaWorld, 520 00:29:05,749 --> 00:29:10,712 he was attacked viciously, repeatedly by Katina and others. 521 00:29:10,879 --> 00:29:14,299 In the wild, it's a very matriarchal society. 522 00:29:14,466 --> 00:29:17,344 Male whales are kept at the perimeter. 523 00:29:17,511 --> 00:29:19,054 In captivity, 524 00:29:19,221 --> 00:29:23,392 the animals are squeezed into very close proximity. 525 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:25,686 Tilikum-- the poor guy is so large, 526 00:29:25,853 --> 00:29:29,481 he couldn't get away because he just is not as mobile 527 00:29:29,648 --> 00:29:32,484 relative to the smaller and more agile females. 528 00:29:32,651 --> 00:29:35,195 And where was he going to run? There's no place to run. 529 00:29:35,362 --> 00:29:37,865 I think he spent a lot of time in isolation. 530 00:29:38,031 --> 00:29:40,492 SeaWorld claims that, "Oh, no, he's always in with the other-- 531 00:29:40,659 --> 00:29:42,661 with the females," but from what I saw, 532 00:29:42,828 --> 00:29:45,456 he was mostly put with the females for breeding purposes 533 00:29:45,622 --> 00:29:49,710 and he didn't spend a lot of time, you know, with the other whales. 534 00:29:49,877 --> 00:29:53,338 It's for his own protection that he gets beat up. 535 00:29:53,505 --> 00:29:55,674 And so by segregating him, 536 00:29:55,841 --> 00:30:00,804 it provides a physical barrier so the females can't kick his butt. 537 00:30:00,971 --> 00:30:03,599 Tilikum is pretty much kept in the back, 538...