SeaWorld’s magnificent killer whale, Tilikum, may be nearing death

Today SeaWorld released an ominous video (below) about 12,000 pound Tilikum’s condition in which they explain his deteriorating condition which is due to a drug resistant pneumonia. As shown in the film Blackfish, and meticulously detailed in the book Death at SeaWorld, Tilikum’s life in captivity is iconic of all that is wrong about keeping whales in tanks. Several people may