Death at SeaWorld Panel Discussion
Live Streamed Event on September 17th, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia (Emory University)

The Panel Discussion includes:
--David Kirby -- Author of "Death at SeaWorld", Award-winning journalist
--Naomi A. Rose, PhD -- Senior Scientist, Humane Society International
--Lori Marino, PhD -- Senior Lecturer, The Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University and the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy.

Death at SeaWorld, by award-winning journalist and author, David Kirby, discusses not only the issues surrounding cetacean captivity, such as the feasibility of keeping large marine mammals like Orcas in a manner that protects the safety of the human trainers as well as the Orcas and whether Cetacean captivity is supportable from an ethical perspective.

The panel discussion, including Author David Kirby, Dr. Lori Marino and Dr. Naomi Rose, also sheds light on Marino's ground-breaking research on mirror-recognition in dolphins, that is, the demonstration that dolphins, like humans, are self-aware, what this means for dolphin and whale captivity, and how this impacted her decision to cease studying dolphins in captivity. Dr. Rose provides her perspective as a marine biologist who has, since she was a graduate student, studied orcas in the wild.