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24 Feb 2010
Dawn Brancheau is Killed by an Orca Whale at SeaWorld Orlando 
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The brush of a trainer's ponytail against the nose of a killer whale appears to have been what sparked the whale's attack. Within seconds, in view of spectators, the giant creature had grabbed her hair, pulled her under water and drowned her.
The two had known each other for 16 years, ever since Dawn Brancheau began working as a trainer with killer whales at SeaWorld Orlando. The whale, Tilikum, or Tilly as all the trainers call him, had been brought from a park in Canada a couple of years previously.
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'Killer whale Tilikum to be spared after drowning trainer by ponytail'; Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, February 25, 2010, www.guardian.co.uk.
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