Believe: Takara and Taima Rebel

Takara and Taima refuse to perform and trainer joe explains

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• shamu
• takara
• taima
• believe
• killer
• whale
• orca
• aquatic
• wildlife

[Love4Lolita]

Is this a part of the show now? Because Every time I have went to seaworld 2 times now and It has been joe and It is almost the same speech.lol,i still love this Show!!!!!!!

[Backstreetgirl88]

He only does that when the whales refuse to perform.

[Lishesodi]

I commend this guy for being able to ramble so long without actually rambling pointlessly. He deserves thay job.

[CowgirlPaint]

Taima was born in captivity, to Gudrun!

[LSGxTryan]

Both times I went to see Believe in 2008, the females refused to perform aswell...

[RareHonesty]

@ianam1983

I never said that they are force I just meant that it's most likely not the highlight of their day. They obviously don't hate it because many times they do it, but I don't think it is something they would do if they weren't repeatedly asked and bribed with food. My best friend does the same thing when I don’t want to do something they want to do; they pester me and offer to pay for my lunch and I usually give in despite the fact that I don’t wann’a. I appreciate your civility.

[ianam1983]

Dude, nice job. It's always hard to cover for these moments. But it's good to see the trainers can handle it when the whales decide not to cooperate.

Now compare this to lots of other performing animals that get starved or bullied into performing if they don't want to, and you can really see the contrast.

Of course, it's pretty awesome just to see an orca, whether it's performing or not.

[ianam1983]

@RareHonesty And they don't always refuse. In fact, they usually perform just fine. They seem to like it, and not just for the rewards, because they get fed anyway (the amount of fish given after behaviors is only a tiny fraction of their daily intake). They aren't forced in any way. As you can see, when they refuse, then there's just no show. They really do have the last word. You don't tell a multi-ton predator what to do, you ask it. Politely.

[couuurtneeey]

@RareHonesty well he said whales would rather be with something important happing to the other whales.. so for example one of the wahles could be giving birth(i dought they do a show during tht ) butif one was the wahles wouldnt want to preform because they would want to be with tht whale...tht wht he said basically.

[couuurtneeey]

@TamilianPonnu when u leave the video lol

[TamilianPonnu]

Does anyone know when will he shut up?

[124yuppers]

R.I.P. Taima

[RareHonesty]

You can argue left and right about whether or not the orcas are mistreated but it can be said that these shows are not fun for these animals because if it was fun they would do it. Nobody refuses to do something fun (especially when they are bribed with food) unless theyre sick or upset but I would hope that the trainers would be able to tell and not put her in the show in the first place, otherwise they don't know these whales very well.