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The first orca conceived through artificial insemination was a male named Nakai, who was born to Kasatka and father Tilikum at the SeaWorld park in San Diego in September 2001. [47] A female killer whale named Kohana, the second orca conceived in this manner, was born at the same park eight months later. [48]
Orca show at SeaWorld San Diego. Orcas, or killer whales, are large predatory cetaceans that were first captured live and displayed in exhibitions in the 1960s. They soon became popular attractions at public aquariums and aquatic theme parks due to their intelligence, trainability, striking appearance, playfulness in captivity and sheer size. [1]
Once the stocks of larger species were depleted, orcas were targeted by commercial whalers in the mid-20th century. Between 1954 and 1997, Japan took 1,178 orcas (although the Ministry of the Environment claims that there had been domestic catches of about 1,600 whales between late 1940s to 1960s [215]) and Norway took 987. [216]
The fish that were offered were much smaller than the southern resident orca's normal prey. When one-pound fish were lowered into the water, the juvenile orca ignored them and inadvertently knocked them off the lines with his tail as he continued swimming around the pen, oblivious to the fact that they were meant to be food for him. [ 28 ]
The Yukon Harbor orca capture operation was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium party on February 15, 1967, in Yukon Harbor on the west side of Puget Sound. [1]
The orca show was one of the Seaquarium's main attractions until 2021, when Lolita was taken off-display. Lolita, the orca. Lolita again. One of the Miami Seaquarium's attractions was Lolita, who, at the time of her death in 2023, was the second oldest orca in captivity after Corky at SeaWorld San Diego. She was the park's last captive orca.
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Lolita and Hugo lived together for ten years in the smallest orca tank in North America [2] known as the "Whale Bowl", [21] a tank 80-by-35-foot (24 by 11 m) by 20 feet (6 m) deep. [22] The pair mated many times (once to the point of suspending shows) [ 23 ] but they never produced any offspring. [ 24 ]