Eyewitnesses watch as 12,000-pound whale attacks female trainer at SeaWorld. Feb. 24, 2010— -- A female trainer was killed today at SeaWorld's Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla., by a 12,000 ...

(Apparently they weren’t interested in just giving the whale a name of her own.) Their new attraction would be named Shamu. “And that’s how it all started,” Griffin concluded.

The killer whale that maimed a SeaWorld Orlando trainer to death last year is returning to the Shamu Show, the park said Tuesday.Tilikum, a 12,000-pound killer whale, dragged trainer Dawn ...

Come Sunday, the gargantuan, albeit graceful, black and white whales will perform their final spins, somersaults and faux kisses in the 5,500-seat Shamu Stadium. The orcas, though, are not facing ...

Today’s killer whale show at SeaWorld San Diego also has been cancelled, officials said. No decision had been announced on future shows. 1971: A SeaWorld secretary riding the original Shamu for ...

"We built the brand around Shamu many years ago and made people fall in love with killer whales," Manby told me, "but now the paradox is that it's one of the leading reasons people are ...

SeaWorld has announced it is evolving its killer whale shows, which typically feature the orca Shamu, after activists repeatedly called them cruel. Shamu is actually a brand name, based on the ...

The trade group also tries to debunk the idea that killer whales in captivity could return to the wild without suffering major problems: “release may be neither a reasoned approach nor a caring ...

The park planned to continue the Shamu Stadium shows Thursday using other whales. The park has a total of seven killer whales, including two of Kasatka's offspring, Koontz said. He did not know ...

SeaWorld trainers won’t return to “water work” with killer whales in the new 2011 Shamu show after the death of an animal trainer forced a complete reworking of the marine park’s signature ...

Shedding Shamu also means that whale memorabilia have become collector’s items. The gift shops at Sea World no longer sell souvenir hats, jackets and key chains depicting the smiling blimp.