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Death at Seaworld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity

David Kirby

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781250031259
Published:
01 Aug 2013
Publisher:
Macmillan
Dimensions:
480 pages - 235 x 156mm

Death at SeaWorld centres on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of Naomi Rose, a marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the U.S., Kirby tells the gripping story of the two-decade fight against PR-savvy SeaWorld, which came to a head with the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. Kirby puts that horrific animal-on-human attack in context. Brancheau’s death was the most publicised among several brutal attacks that have occurred at Sea World and other marine mammal theme parks.

Death at SeaWorld (Hardback edition) 9781250002020
DAVID KIRBY is the author of "Evidence of Harm," which was a "New York Times" bestseller, winner of the 2005 Investigative Reporters and Editors award for best book, and a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, and "Animal Factory," an acclaimed investigation into the environmental impact of factory farms. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Death at SeaWorld introduces real people taking part in this debate, from former trainers turned animal rights activists to the men and women that champion SeaWorld and the captivity of whales. Finally Kirby covers the media backlash, the eyewitnesses who come forward to challenge SeaWorld’s glossy image, and the groundbreaking OSHA case that may spell the end of having trainers in the water with the ocean’s top predators.

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