Still others have injured themselves trying to escape the aggression.
These problems include missing teeth, rake marks and mucus dripping from their eyes. At the time, I’d heard that another trainer had died just before Brancheau, at a park in the Canary Islands. Martínez died just two months before Brancheau. Entre sus atracciones más espectaculares se encuentran las Orcas, delfines, leones marinos y la colección más grande de loros del mundo. This is known as a least-reinforcing scenario, or LRS. I asked Patricia Delponti, director of communications and public relations at Loro Parque, about the incorrect information Diaz had given Rodriguez. “I never saw so many instances in which the animals were out of control or beating up on each other,” she told me. In 2004 and 2005, before the orcas were brought to Loro Parque, eight animal trainers from the park were sent to SeaWorld parks in Texas and Florida for training.[8].
[8], Loro Parque has been criticised by a number of organizations, mostly for its use of orcas. As Allee strolled through Loro Parque for the first time, she thought Orca Ocean looked like it would be a spectacular facility, with a couple of back pools and a medical pool fronted by a large stadium pool with a main stage and a huge video screen. In 2016, a young orca at Spain’s Loro Parque was filmed repeatedly pulling herself out of her tank to escape bullying by her SeaWorld-born tankmates.
Specifically, they stated that "the permit under which Morgan was shipped to Loro Parque" states that "she should be used for scientific research" and that in reality, "Morgan makes daily appearances in the shows doing tricks for the paying public". SeaWorld personnel oversaw their care and training at Loro Parque, and Brian Rokeach, a senior trainer from SeaWorld San Diego, supervised the training session in which Martínez died. Finding out what goes on behind the scenes at a marine park is surprisingly difficult. Like Martínez, Rokeach gave Keto a hand target to focus him, one of the simplest and first behaviors most marine-park killer whales learn. He slapped the water again, and this time Keto responded, leaving Martínez at the bottom of the pool—Martínez had been under an estimated 30 seconds by then—and surfacing without him. But it’s the “unforeseen” part that should make any trainer nervous. In November 2011, Loro Parque received its sixth orca, Morgan, who was rescued in the Netherlands on 23 June 2010. Ultimately, the question of whether performing in the water with killer whales at SeaWorld should be ended or severely constrained by safety measures will be decided by the OSHA proceedings.
(In his testimony to Canary Islands’ investigators, Orca Ocean assistant supervisor Rafael Sanchez said, “The animal in question moved towards him and hit him and violently played with his body.”). Suzanne Allee, who worked at Orca Ocean from 2006 to 2009. Brancheau also became close to Martínez. Kohana's calf was named Adan, meaning "first man" in Spanish. When asked about the procedures, Delponti told me: “Endoscopy is a routine diagnostic procedure used if veterinary professionals suspect the ingestion of a foreign object.