Nolan Harvey
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
Yeah, he surprised the hell out of me. I mean, he really, he did things that I never expected him to do and didn't think was possible. Everything I threw at him, he not only took it, he took it further. I did my damnedest and he responded.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
He was a killer whale. I mean, from the outside, it looks like, why didn't you just keep him there? Then you end up with another full-size killer whale alone in the world with nothing, you know, no companions because nobody else is going to give you a killer whale to put in with him.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
That's really where I felt that the tide turned. That seemed to be the set-off for Phyllis. It's like, how dare we go on our own type of thing.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
When I started, the entire focus was to get Keiko well and see if we could not let him die there at the aquarium.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
This animal is not healthy. I mean, he really, we got him out of Mexico in time. And I don't know if you've seen any of the old footage of when we first released him into the pool, but he, his body shape is what we called a worm. You know, he had a very fat head, a very, very, very skinny body and a tail. And that was not the ideal body. And when he swam, he was so out of shape.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
I mean, he really undulates. Go watch his original footage when he's in the pool. It looks like a worm, you know, moving through the water or a leech.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
And he'd come up and he was huffing and puffing. And so we started working on that. And then we'd go, you know, a little bit longer and we'd start seeing the three minute, five minute, seven minute.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
Go do something. Your choice. You can do whatever you want to do, but you can't do the same thing twice and you can't do the same thing in a row. Some of the things he'd do, you know, you would think, well, he knows train behaviors. He'll just do all those. Right. He would. But then what do you do beyond that? You know, he'd actually have to make things up.
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The Good Whale - Ep. 2
So to watch him start to think, I think we got up to like 38, 38 different behaviors in one training session.