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...everyone within the whale-studying community takes such a dim view of SeaWorld and other such places. Bernd Wursig, a professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University, acknowledges that the sheer size of whales makes them hard to accommodate well, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. "I don't buy the idea that confinement is what was responsible for Tilikum," he says. "I prefer to see animals in nature, but when they were born in captivity or have been in captivity so long, that socialization is the only one they know...
...Wursig suspects Tilikum lashed out for much the same reason that humans lash out. "Even though whales are bright and very well trained, they can show aggressivity if they feel threatened or if they're in a bad mood," he says. "It can also be displacement, if they haven't had a good time with their pod members...
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