{"id":10391,"date":"2011-11-22T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2011-11-20T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:02:34","slug":"marinelands-last-ditch-effort-to-get-injunction-to-keep-killer-whale-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/marinelands-last-ditch-effort-to-get-injunction-to-keep-killer-whale-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland&#8217;s last-ditch effort to get injunction to keep killer whale fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3369105\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawyers for Marineland hoped an 11th hour temporary injunction would block the return of one of its two killer whales to SeaWorld Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The injunction, however, was denied by a U.S. district court judge and that led to the dramatic transport of the 1,815-kilogram killer whale Ikaika Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen police cars, a crane and a number of transport trucks arrived at the Niagara Falls amusement park just after 6 p.m. Floodlights and the crane could be seen from the road as workers removed the male killer whale and lowered him into a waiting transport truck container filled with cold water. Two hours later, the convoy left for Hamilton, where the nine-year-old whale was loaded into a cargo plane outfitted with a holding tank. Ikaika was flown to California and to SeaWorld San Diego, where he was lowered back into a tank Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The animal was attended to by vets and other zoological professionals throughout the process,&#8221; Fred Jacobs, a spokesman for the Orlando-based SeaWorld Parks &amp; Entertainment, wrote in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Lawyers for Marineland hoped an 11th hour temporary injunction would block the return of one of its two killer whales to SeaWorld Friday. The injunction, however, was denied by a U.S. district court judge and that led to the dramatic transport of the 1,815-kilogram killer whale Ikaika Saturday night. More&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[832,2],"tags":[1696,4085,1315,6442,5785,1930,5745,1523,2997,67,41,652,3571,1005,6271,6270,6441,6440,6443,6444],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-amusement-park","tag-california","tag-crane","tag-floodlights","tag-fred-jacobs","tag-hamilton","tag-ikaika","tag-killer-whale","tag-killer-whales","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ontario","tag-police-cars","tag-seaworld","tag-seaworld-parks-entertainment","tag-seaworld-san-diego","tag-transport-truck","tag-transport-trucks","tag-vets","tag-zoological-professionals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}