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Hargrove, John (Animal trainer)
Subjects
Sea World.
Blackfish (Motion picture)
Killer whale.
Killer whale -- Behavior.
Killer whale -- Habitat.
Captive marine mammals.
Aquatic animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Animal rights.
Animal trainers -- Biography.
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Hargrove, John (Animal trainer)
Sea World.
Blackfish (Motion picture)
Killer whale.
Killer whale -- Behavior.
Killer whale -- Habitat.
Captive marine mammals.
Aquatic animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Animal rights.
Animal trainers -- Biography.
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Beneath the surface : killer whales, SeaWorld, and the truth beyond Blackfish /
John
Hargrove
with Howard Chua-Eoan.
by
Hargrove
,
John
(
Animal
trainer
)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Call #:
599.536 H279b
Subjects
Sea World.
Blackfish (Motion picture)
Killer whale.
Killer whale -- Behavior.
Killer whale -- Habitat.
Captive marine mammals.
Aquatic
animal
welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Animal
rights.
Animal
trainers -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781137280107 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
vii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Monsters and other people -- The fantasy kingdom of SeaWorld -- The education of an orca
trainer
-- "In the care of man" -- Elegy of the killer whale -- The natural and unnatural history of the orca -- Treasure -- Getting with the artificial program -- The dark side -- Losing my religion -- Leap of faith -- A vision for the future -- Epilogue : Life without Takara.
Summary:
Over the course of two decades,
John
Hargrove
worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For
Hargrove
, becoming an orca
trainer
fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened,
Hargrove
came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks,
Hargrove
decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld,
Hargrove
became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish.
Hargrove
paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, and he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld.
Other authors:
Chua-Eoan, Howard.
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