Scott Brown vs Killer Whales

[Raoul]

Run time: 05:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npK2yymEyJQ   Posted on YouTube: February 28, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 01, 2010 By DU Member: Raoul Views on DU: 840

 

[zeemike]

1. Killer whale....wonder why they call it that.

If I was a whale kept is a prison of a tank I might think about killing someone hungry or not.
Good to see you two post again.

[Raoul]

2. Ditto (again)

Yep, I feel the same way especially after visiting a zoo decades ago and standing in front of a cage which held a gorilla. He just sat there looking at me with an intense and sad face. It made me uncomfortable because I think I'd interpreted his body language correctly. It said something like, "My ancestors were here millions of years before yours. What gives you the right to imprison me?"

I never visited any kind of zoo of animal park again.

Been having problems trying to post over here from YouTube and contacted the DU admin. about it.

later,
r.

[axollot]

3. Speaking of gorillas in zoos...

..last time I went to a zoo, a silver-back just didnt want to be looked at and when I came around the corner he took his hand down from his face, mooned me then put his hand back over his face. Then more people walked up and I said "I dont think he wants visitors" - he then put his back to us. And I said "see"? We all left and he got some peace.

Cheers
love your videos
Sandy

[Raoul]

5. Thanks for the confirmation

Thanks Sandy - your experience with that gorilla confirmed what I wrote about mine.

[zeemike]

4. that is an interesting story...I have one like it.

I was 7 or 8 I think when a small time carnival set up in the town square....I was attracted to a big sign with a vicious looking ape with snarling teeth and a sign that said "See the wild Orangatang"....so I paid my nickel and went in to a small trailer and at the back was a cage with iron bars and an inner layer of chicken wire at the back was this red creature just sitting there motionless....I went to the cage and grasp the bars and shook them making my best interpretation of the wild beast on the banner and suddenly the Orang threw a strait right punch that hit me squarely on the forehead and set me on my ass...thoes big red eyes were fixed on mine and suddenly I realized that this was a living creature in some distress, and that it possessed feelings like me.
the Orang was not angry at me....it knew I was a child, And I knew it was more aware than I was....much more.

I walked out with the imprint of chicken wire on my forehead and as I passed the circus guy I felt that he knew what had happened....and maybe he did....but for me that Orang was a teacher.

[Raoul]

6. Whew!

I'm glad you weren't harmed more than you were - I think he may have held back a bit because they are very powerful animals. And, like Sandy, you just confirmed what I felt about the magnificent being I was looking at so many years ago.

[zeemike]

7. There was no intent to harm me.

I never felt that at all....it was more compassion for me that she acted...(on having thought about it for a while I think it was probably a she not a he)
And if she intended to harm me she could have hit me in the face but it was square on the forehead and it drove me down to the flor on my ass.
I will always believe that she understood that I was a child and that she needed to teach a lesson too...and it did...it woke me up in a way because of my looking into her eyes and seeing and feeling for the first time, real compassion.

[Raoul]

8. And then..

Thanks for the clarification and once more, you're right on the mark from the way you described the incident. On a more lighter matter, I just heard that Florida is going to have a special hunt directed towards an increasing python population (over 30,000). I may report on it once it's over and the pythons have won..