We will never know exactly what was going on in Tilly’s mind, but we do know that he has been in captivity since he was about two years old – he was captured off the coast of Iceland in 1983. Orcas are social mammals, and he would have been living with his mother and other relatives in a pod.
当然，虽然我们永远都无法确切了解 Tilly 大脑在想些什么，不过，我们知道它自大概两岁起就被囚禁起来了 —— 它是在 1983 年在冰岛沿海被捕的。逆戟鲸是一种具有社交性需要的哺乳动物，如果不是被抓住了， Tilly 应该是和它母亲以及其他外貌类似的亲戚一起生活的。由此，我们可以合理地推断，与亲人的骤然分离给 Tilly 的心灵造成了难以弥补的巨大创伤。