Tilikum the orca whale, who was responsible for killing three humans, including trainer Dawn Brancheau, shows the effects of captivity Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Tilikum was once the star attraction at SeaWorld Orlando - but behind the performances lay a dark and tragic history. Captured as a calf and held in captivity for decades, he was involved in the ...

Tilikum, the orca featured in the 2013 SeaWorld documentary Blackfish, died Friday morning. The 36-year-old orca had been suffering from a “persistent and complicated bacterial lung infection” since ...

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Tilikum was a male orca who almost lived his whole life in captivity. He was only two years old when authorities captured him in the waters off the coast of Iceland in 1983. At first, he lived in a ...

In 2010, Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in front of park guests by dragging her to the bottom of his pool Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

SeaWorld has announced on Facebook that Tilikum, one of their killer whales, is being treated for a bacterial infection in his lungs. This unfortunate news compounds the recent PR nightmare for the ...

On Friday morning, Tilikum the orca whale died at the SeaWorld park in Orlando, Florida. Long before his passing, the 36-year-old killer whale made headlines for his part in the controversial ...

Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld parks, has ...