Re: Free Willy Strikes Back
From The Phantom Photographer <cmr...@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
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· 22 Jan 1995 21:58 · View full thread
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In article <3flau5$2i...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, Mike Jittlov <jit...@erehwon.caltech.edu> wrote: >Steinar Bang <ste...@falch.no> wrote: >> C> "FEED WILLY!" >> [ascii whale deleted] >>Since this was cross-posted to soc.culture.nordic, and apparently is >>a dig at Norwegian whaling, let me just state that Willy is an Orca >>(aka. "Killer whale") and the Orca is a protected species in Norway. > [deletia] > >Heard on the TV news: if you want to see the actual whale, which >starred in "Free Willy", you have to go to Mexico, where it was >sold as a performing animal (Willy was never freed). The whale's >health isn't too good, so "Free Willy II" will be using a special >effects replica. (Again, that's American TV news -- feel free to >correct/illuminate.) > According to CNN Wednesday (in bewtween coverage of the imminent subsidence of California beneath the floodwaters), Keiko the whale is being moved to a new 2.5 million dollar tank in Oregon, built after massive public outcry about the conditions he was living in. So there may be a semi-happy ending after all. -- ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... Marc Reeve cmr...@ucscb.ucsc.edu | @deeptht.armory.com | @gorn.iuma.com "What do they look like, Jimmy?" "Dorks!" -Harvey Keitel & Quentin Tarantino Have Camera, Will Travel.
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