I think the orca attack is stupid. Orcas are wild animals and need to be treated as so...not as pets. People have told me that they keep the animals for research. What goes on at SeaWorld is NOT research. Training the species they have and hugging them and treating them like pets is not research. Research is watching the animals in thier natural habitat and treating them like wild animals. They can easily track the animals to keep track of them so that is not an issue. I am on the killer whale's side because she is wild. The whale had enough of pathetically entertaining people for their own selfish reason. The animals aren't even in big enough "habitats". How would you feel if you were forced to stay in your room for the rest of your life and entertain strangers and never know what the outside world is. You would never know the feeling of wind in your hair ot the chill of the snow...nothing.
Whale's home is the ocean...it's habitat at the aquarium is nothing but a bedroom. I don't blame the whale for what it did. It is wild. What do you expect?