orca

Previous thread is here: Captive Orca Population Due to the old thread getting quite large, I have created a new thread to keep track of the Global Captive Killer Whale Population. The purpose of this thread is to document the births, deaths, and transfers of killer whales from facilities...

North Atlantic Type 1 killer whale in Breiðafjörður. Known as ‘SN289’

I understand that this title may be controversial, but please read this with an open mind. Cetacean captivity is a controversial subject among the zoo community and many people on this site support cetacean captivity; however, I think it's still important for people in the zoo community to...

I found this research study which revealed that bottlenose dolphins live just as long or longer in American zoos and aquariums. I think the Dolphin Research Center (which looks after captive dolphins themselves) had a role in this study, so the research could be biased and therefore might not...

Note: this photo was taken on November 9,2019

It can be any species. And please, no judgement.

Yesterday, the first Killer whale holding facility in China was set up in Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, Zhuhai. Totally 9 killer whale lives here, including 5 males and 4 females, aged between 5 and 13. The largest one is 6.5 m long and weighs 4 t. While the smallest one is 4 m long and weighs 1.2...

Interest in captive Killer Whales is so high right now I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread devoted to news about them. Bad news first: Bingo of Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium died on August 2, 2014 after an illness. All I could find was in Japanese, it appears that he died...

I've seen several websites discussing how cetaceans (especially orcas) and elephants don't thrive in captivity, often with a quite emotional text and emotional (as well as sometimes slightly photoshopped) images of animals looking sad. This huge focus on how saddening and cruel it is to keep...

On November 20th 2013 a new orca calf was born to second time mother Wikie at Marineland Antibes. Its father is unknown however it is strongly suspected that the father is Wikies half brother, Valentin. This brings the number of orcas in captivity up to 53, and with the recent addition of 8...

A young female orca, named Narnia, was either captured or rescued (from net entanglement) in August in Russian waters and is currently being kept in the Sochi Dolphinarium. Another whale captured at the same time has since died. Sochi plans to sell the whale to the Primorsky Aquarium, currently...

Marineland have now release video of the birth of their orca calf: http://www.marineland.fr/actualites-liste/marineland-tv-actus-14042011-naissance-dun-bebe-orque-a-marineland.php?Itemid=412