On Animals by Susan Orlean

Author:Susan Orlean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

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Really, though, just how big a baby was he? There were plenty of people who wondered whether Keiko was being held back. “I worry about the trainers,” David Phillips said. “Just who is more dependent on whom?” It wasn’t simply that Keiko provided jobs for them, which would disappear if he went free; it was the emotional attachment. One of his trainers carried pictures of Keiko rather than of her children in her wallet.

But if Keiko didn’t leave—that is, if he didn’t join a whale pod and learn how to hunt, eschewing the easy life of a Hollywood retiree—he would have to be funded with new money from somewhere. Whoever contributed to the Keiko project now would have to do it knowing that he or she would possibly be underwriting not a magnificent mammal’s colossal leap to freedom but an ongoing day-care program for an aging whale.

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