Tilikum the orca whale, who was responsible for killing three humans, including trainer Dawn Brancheau, shows the effects of captivity Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Tilikum, the orca featured in the 2013 SeaWorld documentary Blackfish, died Friday morning. The 36-year-old orca had been suffering from a “persistent and complicated bacterial lung infection” since ...

In 2010, Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in front of park guests by dragging her to the bottom of his pool Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

Tilikum was a male orca who almost lived his whole life in captivity. He was only two years old when authorities captured him in the waters off the coast of Iceland in 1983. At first, he lived in a ...

A well-known killer whale that had violently killed one of its SeaWorld trainers and two other people died Friday after battling a bacterial lung infection, the marine park said. The orca named ...

Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld parks, has ...

Tilikum, the most famous and infamous killer whale in the United States, died Friday after a long illness, SeaWorld announced. The many-tonned orca — believed to be 36 years old — likely succumbed to ...

One of SeaWorld's better-known orcas, Tilikum, perhaps best known for killing his trainer in 2010, died early Friday morning. SeaWorld said he died surrounded by trainers, care staff and veterinarians ...