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Tahlequah (born c. 1998), also known as J35, is an orca of the southern resident community in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. She has given birth to four known offspring, a male (J47 "Notch") in 2010, a female (Tali) in 2018, another male (J57 "Phoenix") in 2020, and another female (J61) in 2024.
25 of the 33 orcas on display in the US, Argentina, Spain, and France were born in captivity. Six of the seven displayed in Japan are captive-born. An additional 13 orcas reported in China and Russia were captured in Russian waters. [citation needed] Kalina, born in September 1985, was the first captive-born orca calf to survive more than a few ...
[3] Lolita was captured when she was an estimated three to six years old, [3] on August 8, 1970, in the Penn Cove capture in Puget Sound, Washington. Lolita was one of seven young orcas sold to oceanariums and marine mammal parks around the world from a capture of over eighty whales conducted by Ted Griffin and Don Goldsberry, partners in an ...
Dave Phillips was one of the numerous whale experts who helped the orca star of Free Willy return to the wild. Now, Phillips is working to help two other whales in captivity at a closed marine ...
In May, SeaWorld launched a new aquatic life park in the United Arab Emirates, its first outside the U.S., with no orcas. (The park features other animals, like dolphins and seals.) (The park ...
He was living in a pod with 12 other orcas, and given the size of his dorsal fin was thought to be at least 16 years old. [1] [2] Scientists from FEROP speculated that he may have been the albino whale spotted off the coast of Alaska in 2000 and 2008. [3] He was still alive as of 2016, when he was again spotted by FEROP with his pod. [4]
A pod of orcas thrilled onlookers on Fox Island, Washington State, the creatures putting on a remarkable display as they breached repeatedly.Footage filmed by David Cope, who said the event ...
She successfully reintegrated with a resident British Columbia orca pod and is still with that pod today. Morgan's case, however, presented some key differences to that of Springer. The Northern Resident population of orcas which Springer is a part of have been intensively studied for many decades, with all individuals and the majority of ...