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Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said it will keep the killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths. "We're going to make any changes we have to to make sure this doesn't happen again," Chuck Tompkins, chief of animal training, said after a 12,000-pound killer whale named Tilikum dragged a trainer into its pool and thrashed the woman to death as audience members watched in horror. Talk-radio callers, bloggers and animal activists said Tilikum — which was involved in the deaths of two other people over the past two decades — should be released into the ocean or put to death like a dangerous dog. Tompkins said that Tilikum would not survive in the wild, and that destroying the animal is not an option either, because it is an important part of the breeding program.
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