Global Captive Orca Population

[Jambo]

Lovely has sustained an injury to her jaw, apparently during the transfer process of Ran to Kobe, it looks as though the tip of her lower jaw has been torn off, not dissimilar to how Nakai was injured a few years back when he was missing a large chunk of his chin.

Wow, sad to hear, hopefully it will heal like Nakai's but Nakai's was brutal for a while.

Usually it's the emotional side of things when it comes to transfer impacts on individual orcas; yet this time we have a physical injury as a result.

 

[BlobfishBoy]

The injury occurred due to the whales not being separated by the time the crane came (apparently it was a very short time between deciding the transfer and the crane arriving). When they tried to separate them in the presence of the crane the whales panicked and Ran injured herself.

 

[Orca obsessed]

Oh- sounds brutal it seems like those orcas are always getting injured though it’s mostly just Ran

 

[Orca obsessed]

Here is a video of Lovey’s injury;

 

[katinakalinakaterina]

Here is a video of Lovey’s injury;

I hadn't realised it had damaged her teeth too, you can see that it has exposed the roots of her front teeth but a couple of them are chipped too. It has to have been a collision with something in the pool surely, probably the gate?

The Kamogawa whales have pretty much the best teeth condition of any captive orca so I just hope they know how to care for them in that state (I think teeth flushing is pretty much a daily occurrence at SW but I wonder how familiar the trainers at Kamogawa are with the process). Also hope it doesn't lead to any infections.

 

[Orca obsessed]

Dora’s calf has been introduced to cody(They tried to introduce him to the adults but it didn’t go well). Here’s the link;CarolineL on Instagram: " At Shanghai Haichang, Dora’s calf was introduced to the others orcas. It didn’t went well with adults but he gets along with Cody, his hald brother. Dora’s calf was born on December 3rd. À Shanghai Haichang, le bebe de Dora a été introduit aux autres orques. Ça ne s’est pas bien passé avec les adultes, mais il s’entend avec Cody, son demi frère. Le bebe de Dora est né le 3 décembre. En Shanghai Haichang, el bebe de Dora fue presentado a las otras orcas. No le fue bien con los adultos, pero se lleva bien con Cody, su hermanastro. El bebe de Dora nació el 3 de diciembre. ccc971233 #marineland #zookeeper #soigneuranimalier #blackfishlies #keepthetanksfull #orca #orque #killerwhale #dauphin #delfin #dolphin #seaworld #captivity #captivité #delphinarium #seaworldcares #dolphinarium #oceanografic #bottlenosedolphin #delfinario #loroparque #cautividad #cautiverio #mymarineland #blackfish is ******** Don’t #emptythetanks #boycottseaworld #dontbuyaticket #captivitykills is false"

 

[Orca obsessed]

Here’s the latest photo of Ran at kobe suma seaworld,I found it on Insta it was sourced from kobe’s website but I can’t find where So its a screenshot

 

[Sacchi]

Here’s the latest photo of Ran at kobe suma seaworld,I found it on Insta it was sourced from kobe’s website but I can’t find where So its a screenshot

It's in the show schedule section on the site, just click on one of the days on the calendar.

No pics of Stella, just that one of Ran.

It's good to see she isn't injured too, assuming its not photoshopped.

 

[Orca obsessed]

Here is some footage of Stella and Ran together they also show the other animals which is very sad especially the dolphins having practically no space and the seals and sea lions anyway here it is:

 

[Merintia]

What a depressing park...

 

[Orca obsessed]

Orcas Jade and her calf have been sighted at Chimelong Spaceship this now means that there are no orcas at the temporary holding facility dubbed “Hequin Island” Here’s the link to a video of the orcas;Anita on Instagram: "My heart is melting seeing this #chimelongspaceship ##chimelong #orca #orcas #whale #killerwhale #cetacean #animalphotography"

 

[Orca obsessed]

Chimelong is doing waterworks as confirmed by this Instagram post; https://www.instagram.com/stories/mermaid_fight/3378690995552373920/
It is currently only in the VIP show but they plan to make it part of their Main show. This new information makes there be 2 known facilities that perform waterworks(possibly 3 if Kobe Suma will do them) the other facility being Kamagowa SeaWorld which ch as we know has a connection with Chimelong.

 

[Jambo]

Updates:

Dora's calf has been named 'Pangdoubao'.

Jade's calf (yet to be named) was born last October. Loki, who was initially believed to be the offspring of Jade, is in fact the offspring of Nukka.

Sonya, Katenka and Nukka are all apparently pregnant. Katenka just gave birth five months ago, so is once again looking at a similar gap of around 22 or so months as with her previous two calves.

 

[Orca obsessed]

Here’s a video of Kobe Suma Seaworld;

 

[Kevin Miller]

Here’s a video of Kobe Suma Seaworld;

So it looks they are doing waterworks, based off the video.

 

[Sacchi]

Sonya, Katenka and Nukka are all apparently pregnant. Katenka just gave birth five months ago, so is once again looking at a similar gap of around 22 or so months as with her previous two calves.

God that poor whale. It can't be healthy.

One quick pregnancy is an accident, two is intentional. Four is the whale equivalent of puppy mill breeding. I'm legitimately angry.

Where are they even gonna put them?. They're already full.

 

[TheOceanicHippo]

Here’s a video of Kobe Suma Seaworld;

The pools are so tiny, the fact they wanted to put a bull orca in there is insane.

 

[Jambo]

God that poor whale. It can't be healthy.

One quick pregnancy is an accident, two is intentional. Four is the whale equivalent of puppy mill breeding. I'm legitimately angry.

Where are they even gonna put them?. They're already full.

I imagine the plan probably is to sell them to other Chinese parks that are looking to hold them (like Wuxi), and I would be surprised if Japan wasn't interested as well. Japan would love a few males, especially following the roadblock that has been placed with the French transfer.

 

[Merintia]

One quick pregnancy is an accident, two is intentional. Four is the whale equivalent of puppy mill breeding. I'm legitimately angry.

Totally agree. Is too much even if they plan to sell them to other parks. And to think that some of them very probably will go to those tiny Japanese pools...

 

[Sacchi]

I've seen several people online say that the killer whale skeleton on display at Kobe is Bingo.

It's not. It's a historical whaling specimen from the 1950's and has been on exhibit at the aquarium ever since. It used to hang from the ceiling but during the renovation it was re-articulated and is now a standing model. There used to be a page about it on Kobe's old website.