Hargrove's journey is one that humanity has just begun to take-toward the realization that the relationship between the human and animal worlds must be radically rethought. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorlds orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act.In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favourite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant orcas in SeaWorld. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. Now a New York Times Best Seller Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. Read 'Beneath the Surface Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish' by John Hargrove available from Rakuten Kobo. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S.

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