These videos ALWAYS make me cry and feel depressed and enraged for these amazing, beautiful animals. GREEDY HUMANS…EVERY TIME! 😢😡

imagine how many innocent people Beth has killed ………. she seems to have one goal in mind yea?

People need to stop going to sea world , they are feeding the animal abuser's to continue with this😢 making animals suffer fir their fun and greed

Anyone saying some animals dont revert back to animal instincts have never seen an abandoned dog, or a general house cat that makes their way outside.

Unpopular opinion but why not take care of the animals in captivity and ensure they have the best care, and not catch/breed any more cetaceans in captivity?

Keiko should never have been released now if he was with other whales in captivity they could have released them together as a family and he probably would have done better.

One of the detective is Rodriguez.

The whole story is really taken out of perspective… Keiko did seek human company, that is true. He was taught to do so, such habits would not be easily broken. But at the end of the day, he had 5 good years of freedom. He outlived the vast majority of captive male orcas- I believe only one survived longer? -so we cannot say his life was cut short by his release. Given the terrible conditions he had been kept in previously, he would most definitely have died younger if not for rehabilitation. He did interact with wild orcas, despite the language barrier between different pods. Male orcas tend to keep to the periphery of the pod naturally, so his distance from them cannot automatically be taken as a failure to adapt. Keiko did travel and find food well enough. It was sickness that did him in, and after years in a filthy little tank it’s really no surprise he would be vulnerable to pneumonia. In what way can we truly say he was worse off for having been freed? If only he had been rehabilitated sooner, he may have fared better still! Going forwards, we should continue to try and rehabilitate other orcas for release into the wild. Better to find the individual’s birth family, or try to release multiple individuals together to support each other. But we should still try to remedy the wrongs inflicted on these creatures

They should have put a bunch of captive whales with him and hopefully they could have become a pod on their own

You dont' release wild animals that have been out of the wild like that. How idiotic. How stupid and how cruel. And the a-hole governments that barred people from interacting with him. The poor thing was lonely and wanted the interaction. Freedom for him sucked worse than captivity.

Greatest Country in the world eh, putting a innocent man in jail, fucked up corrupted justice system

He managed to be inside the snake 🐍 and she did not mind 😏. No pun intended.

There is nothing wrong with living and being alone. The mission was a success. I just wonder how he contracted pneumonia.

There is nothing wrong with living and being alone. The mission was a success. I just wonder how he contracted pneumonia.

Also that famous LA traffic especially after a Dodgers game your not going anywhere anytime soon

My man was institutionalized by the prison system and didn't know how to cope with the outside world anymore. 😭

Saw Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in 1998. Nice enough fella. Shame we took him away from his habitat.

I got an ad for sea world watching this lmao, the algo is fucked in the brain.

”He lived a better healther life”… You just told me he got rejected by everyone he met, forbidden to see humans and died of pnemonia a year after release…. What part of that is better or healther? The truly sad thing about this story and most animal stories is that the well being of the animal isn’t actually what people want. They want a good story, they want to hear ”he lived happily ever after” and are willing to spend a lot of money to hear the story. Reality is ”He has been fucked up for 20 years and is never comming back from that”, but people don’t want that story. People do not care about reality, they care about feeling good, and believing false things is always dangerous since your actions will not have the effect you desired, in this case killing the whale you tried to give a better life.

So he never acted out of anger? Always good? Always perform with no trouble? I thought they were done holding all marine animals captive?

I remember as a kid raising money for Keiko and selling candy bars and giving 10 dollars which was alot for me as a kid. It's sad that he ended up as he did, but at least he had those years in his natural environment rather then chlorine and fresh water.

I don’t think it’s very healthy for him to be moved that many times in lorries and planes

They do the wrong thing 20 yo captivate is impossible to free him he was alone and search human interaction all times poor thing 😢

All the people responsible for ever taking these creatures should be in prison.

They killed keiko because as usual people confuse real life with a movie.

Capitalism where animals suffer the most.

Right... Very 'lucky' to be granted a lonely death in an environment you were ripped from by abductors that made you dependant and slaved you in captivity for 20 years prior

His last year of life was far better than another whale shown in this video (in the small pool, before the meaning of Keiko’s name is shown). Her name was Lolita, and she died recently at 57 years of age. She never saw freedom.

If he was lucky, he never would have gotten caught, he would have stayed in the wild.

WE LOVE YOU KEIKO

México city is Hot and dry? Wtf? It rains more in Mexico city than in London! Now you lost all credibility...everyone can make a "documentary" nowadays, not caring on fact-checking

He was taken as a ba y when he was just learning to talk, and kept over 20 years. No wonder they couldn't find the whale pod with the correct vocalization. I'm sure he was happier in the ocean than in a tiny tank of chemical water in Mexico

Mf died!! That’s what happened!

Stop saying Warner Bros, it's Warner Brothers its abbreviated and not meant to be said how its written. This almost made me stop watching the video, and makes you sound dumb. Other than that this is a good video.

Atleast they tried and out in the effort. Plus if anything this shows how intelligent these animals really are

YALL!! I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON!! WHY DID I LAUGH WHEN HE SAID: "Keiko...was dead" I fell so fin' bad : (

He had 5 years living in the ocean. That was better then dieing in captivity! He had freedom for five years.

This project offered us valuable insight and a clearer understanding of the consequences of keeping a whale in captivity, what can be undone and what can't. It breaks my heart that he was starved of the socialisation and sense of family he needed but I'm glad he was free and healthy for a while.

The natural world is not a 'mother'. it's a wild and scary m*f*er ... !

Lots of love and good wishes for a majestic and beautiful creature. ❤

RIP Keiko 🌊

To all you saying they never should take them from the ocean. Yeah, we know that! But, we don’t have control over that. We don’t get to decide what poachers take what whales. It wasn’t illegal though should’ve been at the time. How are you all pissed at children for donating money to free their favorite animal. Favorite character. Just why can’t anyone look at anything in a good way. No he didn’t live long in the wild but he got back into the wild. Be became healthy. A better weight, he was in the wild. Would you rather him be meat? Or have him be killed? People still never gave up on him. I hope no one ever would give up on me. And I’m hopeless. Some animals change our lives. Sometimes people just want to complain about things they never tried to change. He was worth it 💜

I hate that they call this a failure. Because it absolutely wasnt. he wasnt as free as the world wanted. But he got to be in the ocean, and feel the tide. They should really put all the orcas in captivity in an open ocean pen, it would be healthier for them if they cant survive in the wild

Rip Keiko

They should off just left him live close to a bay near humans

Its so weird to me how obedient to the government europeans are. It kind of disgusts me. Keep an eye on the states. We are about to throw off another oppressive and restrictive government to remind you all how it is done.

Turns out they actually did free Willy er Keiko 🐋

Yeah I remember seeing him in Oregon with my grandparents numerous times as a kid

RIP did Keiko dirty

The best outcome for Keiko would be to live on that bay until it dies, seems big and wild enough. It was prerry obvious that it would die in the wild alone.