I was eating lunch today when CNN started a news report on the killing of a Sea World trainer by one of the park's orcas (see this L.A. Times article).
This report also followed a goofy look at a dog that learned to surf.
Given that we've read a lot of Haraway, who in other writing stresses that the relationship between a trainer and his/her animals is one of the closest and most deeply respectful relationships we can have with our "companion species," what do we make of an event like this (and if you watch the press briefings, you'll see that this was not the first time this particular orca killed a human, and not the first time someone has died to the orcas at Sea World). I actually found the press conference fairly interesting, because the Sea World spokesperson was standing in front of the tank, and the orcas were swimming back and forth behind him with obvious curiosity about what was going on!
Perhaps we should read Susan Davis's essay in Uncommon Ground that talks about Sea World's old advertising campaign, "Touch the Magic."
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