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At one point, the whale was even feet from the tour group’s boat. Whale watchers also got to see a pod of 200 common dolphins, 13 endangered fin whales, a minke whale and four humpback whales in ...
An uncommonly large grouping of orcas for Northern California — roughly two dozen killer whales — were spotted by a whale watching tour off the coast of San Francisco last month, likely ...
Corky II (born c. 1965), often referred to as just Corky, is a female captive orca from the A5 Pod of northern resident orcas. At approximately the age of four, Corky was captured from Pender Harbour off the coast of British Columbia on 11 December 1969. [2] She has lived at SeaWorld San Diego in San Diego, California since 21 January
Although ten years was an extremely young age for a killer whale to become a mother, Kalina was the first killer whale calf to be successfully born and raised in captivity. [129] In turn, Kalina gave birth at only seven and a half years of age to her first calf, a male named Keet. [46] Gudrun was an Icelandic female caught in the 1970s. In 1993 ...
For 50 minutes, multiple pods of orcas worked together, hunting off the California coast. Two orcas, the matriarchs among the group of about 30 whales, on April 2 circled a 20-foot-long minke ...
In 2014, California Assembly member Richard Bloom introduced the assembly bill 2140 known as the Orca Welfare and Safety Act. [7] In April 2014 there was a live hearing in the Committee of Water, Parks, and Wildlife where there was no initial decision and the bill was set aside for an interim study. [7]
At SeaWorld, Ulises was introduced to the rest of the park's orcas. He showed aggression towards female Corky, and the two were not allowed to be present in the same pool without the presence of more dominant female Kasatka. [4] Ulises was the largest orca at SeaWorld San Diego until Ikaika surpassed him in size in late 2021. Ulises measures 21 ...
A video taken by Evan Brodsky of the Monterrey Bay Whale Watch shows the white orca swimming with its mom and peers on Nov. 24. In an Instagram post , Brodsky said the nickname Frosty was given to ...