Last orca born in captivity arrives at SeaWorld San Antonio

[@blackwing97]

For anyone wondering, the calf's name was Kyara, and she died three months later due to an infection.

[@DarkTripods07]

If it's an still birth, they'll never release this footage.

[@joshsgaming8995]

Rip Kyara we will miss her

[@lbabytutorials4852]

They had A LOT of calves die imagine in the wild. Do they have to perform pregnant?

[@MagicTankGaming]

@@lbabytutorials4852 No seaworld gives them a break during their 18 month pregnancy period

[@melkormorgoth9022]

Ever notice how when you see them they swim in a moving circle thats so tight they're constantly engaged with the rest of the pod,so sad to see this girl giving birth on her own without any of her own kind,fking Heatbreaking:(

[@stellarjuju8788]

I was just thinking the exact same thing. During difficult orca births in the wild sometimes more than one midwife will assist the mother with birthing. To see her all alone surrounded by concrete is beyond tragic🥺💔

[@littlesongbird1]

@@stellarjuju8788 I don't think she was alone..also..Takara is a very experiences mom (I think this was her 6 calf) so she probably was like I got this.

[@stellarjuju8788]

@@littlesongbird1 if you consider humans watching her from the other side of a glass tank then yeah, I guess you're right. Anthropomorphising of animals is not a good angle to be coming from either..

[@kxkstudios1729]

Rest in peace, littlest Kyara...

[@damarisgamingvloggingunbox9986]

Died 3 months old I think

[@kxkstudios1729]

@@damarisgamingvloggingunbox9986 yes

[@badmingtonsunset1386]

rip kyara :( the whole pod especially Sakari,Kamea,Takara,Kyuquot, and Tuar will miss you.. (because ur all related)

[@MyLife-hl4or]

Born in captivity for one of these awesome creatures should be ILLEGAL. These were NEVER meant to be in captivity. Fucking awful. So sad she died. The calf is, in all likelihood, better off than having to suffer a lifetime for human amusement...

[@kermit56780]

Agreed 100%.. Imagine 50+ years of waving to the crowd.

[@marhb5437]

Died by pneumonia, is normal!

[@belugaangel9360]

Rip Kyara. Rest where there is no Sea World.

[@sladjaj7579]

1:56 soooo cute my heart is melting! ^_^ But I hate the SeaWorld for all torture they caused to these poor extremely intelligent creatures. Those who disagree with me, just watch the "Blackfish" which explains everything and you'll shut up.

[@AllisonRichardsonSquared]

Don't watch Blackfish, research for yourself. That documentary used footage illegally from KZbin without the consent of owners and is filled with 3 pages of lies found by a Seaworld trainer. #don'tgetBlackfished

[@sladjaj7579]

Please, think logically, even if one of those people in the documentary lies, there are so many others who speak from their experience, you really think someone bribed them to say all those things? It's not a coup for God's sake, it's a real story about how these creatures are intelligent and how harmful it is for them to live in such a small tank! They are huge, they got used to living in the vast OCEANS, and now they have to spend all their life in a tiny pool! Can you imagine yourself living in a small room surrounded by 4 walls without ever leaving it? Also, the water there causes them skin disease and lung illnesses very often. What about the lifespan? Just do some tiny research on KZbin - LIFESPAN IN THE WILD vs. LIFESPAN IN CAPTIVITY! That is enough torture for them, let alone if they are really tortured for every trick they don't perform, like they claim in that documentary.

[@ellah3685]

Allison Neal omg that is so wrong. The average life span for orcas in the wild is 50 years where as for orcas in captivity it is 13 years. Look it up. Also it doesn't matter that seaworld are expanding the size of their tanks slightly. A larger prison cell is still a prison cell. Orcas are used to swimming up to 100 miles a day in the ocean, even the new and 'improved' tanks will only be 0.07 miles in length. Orcas in captivity are actually depressed. They either swim around in circles again and again, lie staring at the bottom for hours or bash their heads against the wall trying to escape in doing so crushing their teeth and mashing up their jaws. Orcas are highly social and in the wild they live in pods of around 15 orcas, in most pods they stay with their mothers for life. In captivity however orcas are forced to live with orcas from other family units who speak a completely different languages than they do and are constantly moved around for breeding and to perform. When fights inevitably break out there is nowhere to hide or flee which leads to injuries and death. As you said, no, orcas can't just be released into the wild but they can however be released into sea pods for a better and more natural life. When offered this by orca experts seaworld refused. Can you guess why? Yup, because they don't won't to lose their biggest money making scheme. Now lastly look up 'orcas in the wild'. Don't even try to tell me that doesn't look more natural and a much happier life. I'm sorry that was so long it's just something I feel very passionately about. Please please please, I'm begging you don't go to seaworld, you will only be promoting the suffering of such amazing animals, this also goes for dolphins and all the other poor animals seaworld 'owns'.

[@sladjaj7579]

Alvaro, I actually stopped reading her comments, it's just one of those people who pretend to know it all while they are sooo mistaken. Hey, Ashley, even the most basic Google check is enough to learn that their estimated maximum lifespan is 60 to 70 years for males and 80 to over 100 for females, no research needed at all.

[@ellah3685]

Sladja J yes, I know. You're talking maximum, I'm talking average. 'Even the most basic Google check is enough to learn that their estimated AVERAGE lifespan is 30-50 years.'

[@phyllisruthmick5391]

I can't like or dislike that video! That baby Orca being born, that mama Orca with her seemingly effortless, graceful and beautiful birthing, It was a thing of beauty, something so special and reverent, that we never would have seen if not for the Orcas captivity. I absolutely hate Sea World, I've never been and I never will. I've raised my #3 children to loathe Sea World by making sure that they know HOW SEA WORLD GOT THEIR ORCAS AND HOW THOSE ORCAS ARE TREATED AND HOW SEA WORLD BRED THOSE STOLEN ORCAS TO RAISE CAPTIVE ORCAS FOR PROFIT AND HOW ONE AFTER ANOTHER OF THOSE BABIES HAVE DIED. I witnessed a thing on this video that was so beautiful and special that deep down inside I know that I /we were never meant to see because Orcas were never meant to be captive and morally we know that Orcas are not meant for our entertainment. Because Orcas are a living, breathing animal with their own rights and deserve to be respected and left alone. #EMPTYTHETANKS

[@VanillaUnicornxx]

Don’t put them in there in the first place because if you see when they are happy they’re fins are up and when they are sad and lonely their dorsal fin is down and if it’s not down they are forcing the orca to look happy and if they put it in there in the first place if you let it out it’s family wont remember the orca. And it will no longer know how to hunt. And it will starve to death. These awesome animals were here before us so we are cruel bad people. We have kidnapped them. Don’t ever do this. I’m only in grade 4 and I’m studying to be a marine biologist on orcas. Don’t ever do this. Don’t support sea world. This is cruel. Captivity is not nice.

[@FeistyFins]

Right because you're a so-called expert and you know everything about orcas there has been many a scientific research and review about orcas with bent Dorsal fins even wild orcas have them it's not cuz they're sad it's not an emotional thing it has collagen in it. A lot of things can be a part of dorsal collapse.

[@VanillaUnicornxx]

@@FeistyFins okay-

[@badmingtonsunset1386]

Takaras 5th calf Kyara sadly died at 3 months old Kohana (F) Trua (M) Sakari (F) Kamea (F) And, Kyara (F)

[@marhb5437]

And Sakari (F)

[@thkooka1]

Tura is actually a child of the one and only talikum

[@mydarlingdoodles3573]

And you watch this in excitement But your mind wanders to all the Orca Babies so young in the wild that was brutally taken from their mother. Again Humans destroy another Orca life.

[@chrismore5956]

wish the laws allow orcas breeding naturally like takara having her calf naturally, it's just nice to let them have offsprings as they do in the wild but it could also educate people between young and old.

[@rosiewatson6994]

it's dead. like most of SeaWorld's whales.

[@brthdygrl6]

Did you call kyara a IT Your a piece of shit 😡

[@kxkstudios1729]

Hi this comment is like 2 years old but Kyara was concieved naturally. of all of the orcas birthed in seaworlds care, 17 out of about 23 of them were naturally concieved. the breeding program they had was more of allowing the animals to mate (which is an indicator of healthy social animals) than artificial insemination, as it was used for park to park breeding or studies. now that the breeding program no longer exists due to pressure from anti caps, seaworld had to either use birth control on the females (which doesnt stop them from getting pregnant anyways) or separate the males and females and deprive them of one critical component of social interaction. they used both methods. and anti caps flamed seaworld for it. another example of how much the anti caps truly know

[@RattInsomniac]

Oh how I do wish she was still alive.

[@Mouseboy47]

How fitting that the original baby shamu would give birth to hopefully the last baby shamu

[@Theme-Park-Kingdom]

Scott Ising Takara was not the original Baby Shamu

[@brthdygrl6]

Kalina was

[@KallieVRM]

Awwww so cute love animals

[@tinab.5169]

So sorry. ..never see the ocean and swim with a great family. .never swim miles ..that is not a real life for such a beautiful orca. .if you ever see such animals in the wild you never support such entertainment. ..

[@tonyduong2029]

Tina Behla I

[@alexisxmarie4238]

Tina Behla Hmm I've seen many animals in the wild. And I've seen how many orcas are dying,starving,etc. in the wild. For example today...I was jogging on the river and I seen a dolphin..I'm guessing she gave birth because I seen a very weak newborn pop up. Then it disappeared and I waited at least 30 minutes to see if it was alive. But no. It didn't survive from what I know. The wild isn't such a thriving happy place...especially the marine environment. It's the real world. They are all with their families at SeaWorld too. Sorry.

[@EternalSilence1]

And why is 'the wild' not full of food. Yes, thats right, cause the humans comes around with his big ass nets/fishing ships and scoops all the plentyfull sea empty.

[@lucille9348]

you know, there was a time, not so long ago, when we kept black people, and indiguenous people from variues tribes around the world in zoos, we took them from their homes and braught them here to live in a ZOO... look it up, it's not even that long ago. The people in charge argued that these people were well taken care of in their cages. They got good food, and a sizable cage to live in. But then we woke up a little, and found out that wether or not these people were well fed and housed, it was still a horrible thing to do to them, we took their freedom, their family, their autonomy, and what not, and that was a horrible thing to do. now NO ONE in their right mind could be convinced that it is in any way acceptable to put a human being in a zoo, wether or not they are "well looked after". I can only hope that there will be a day when we realise it is also not ok for other sentient creatures. The fact that people are yelling that these animals ar happy and healthy is not going to change anything about the fact that they are NOT. It's not going to change anything about the fact it is wrong. People back then thought keeping those people in zoos wasn't that bad a thing either. There's more to life than just food and shelter, those needs were met for those people who were forced to live in zoos as well... Was it ok then??? NO . Same thing here with the orcas, food and shelter is provided, but that's not enough to live a full life. I that were enough for it to be ok, it still woulden't be a problem to keep a person in a zoo too. Is it? No? well then it's not for the orcas either...

[@lucille9348]

this is a paragraph about one of the last people kept in a zoo, his name was Benga. This is what they wrote "Thanks to a piece in the New York Times, word of the exhibit spread. "We send our missionaries to Africa to Christianize the people," the Times wrote, "and then we bring one here to brutalize him." (Though in an editorial, The Times also said Benga "is probably enjoying himself as well as he could anywhere in his country, and it is absurd to make moan over the imagined humiliation and degradation he is suffering.")" Ring a bell much??? its the same thing we say about these orcas, the EXACT SAME THING Evolution my arse

[@sethgold2048]

QUE. COISA. MAIS. LINDISSIMA.! O BEBE ORCA E O BEBE MAIS ADORAVEL DO PLANETA. COMPAREI TODOS OS BEBES DE DIFERENTES ANIMAIS E O BEBE ORCA E FOFISSIMO E APRENDE TUDO SUPER RAPIDO PORQUE ORCAS SAO OS GOLFINHOS MAIS INTELIGENTES DA TERRA. TEM UM CEREBRO 5 VEZES MAIOR QUE O CEREBRO HUMANO! AMO ESSE VIDEO PENA QUE E EM CATIVEIRO E NAO EM MAR ABERTO EM LIBERDADE. ORCAS VIVEM DE 50 ATE 100 ANOS OU MAIS. COMO NOS SERES HUMANOS SAO ALTAMENTE INTELIGENTES E MUITO MANSINHAS E SUPER CURIOSAS ORCAS NUNCA ATACAM PESSOAS EM MAR ABERTO ISSO E UM FATO.

[@pickle3710]

Well the baby died 3 months later 1llike 1 prayer for the dead orca

[@corneliacottrell1701]

xenomorph alien guy had ah gbfhfgccgxhfrgzbx

[@annp.3502]

Why?

[@jennifermarshall4780]

Sad! They belong in the wild! They are still be captured! 2017 she died!

[@encubierto8034]

Las entrenadoras se abrazan y rien de felicidad como si ellas hubieran ayudado en el parto. de felicidad deberían poner en libertad a las ballenas.

[@marhb5437]

No se puede hacer eso, porque todas han nacido en cautividad y ninguna duraría más de 1 día en el océano

[@encubierto8034]

@@marhb5437 De que se puede hacer se puede. tambien se puede hacer oh evitar seguir capturando mas ballenas despues de que mueran estas. pero el negocio importa mas que la libertad de los animales. verdad? este es el cuento de nunca acabar $$$$$$$$$.

[@shaleshiacottrell7433]

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[@stephess6618]

I was gonna say it’s well overdue but they should of never even kidnapped those poor Orcas that was Horrible

[@stephess6618]

@Rope the fighter Pilot 4473 what do you mean I don’t know what I’m talking about Sea World should be closed forever and I do know what I’m talking about the one Orca that killed what 3 ppl maybe more was stolen from the ocean so u don’t know what ur talking about troll

[@dylanhargrave943]

Baby kyara is so cute

[@ange714gu]

right away the mom started teaching the baby the tricks. you gotta teah them young.

[@brthdygrl6]

lol 😂😂

[@gettheledout4510]

Fortunately there will be no more births at SeaWorld! Now to work on the other parks. You can help just simply stop buying tickets

[@tinsote7176]

They’re natural behaviors, not tricks. The vibe of the shows just makes it seem like they’re tricks.

[@user-ln8pc6wg1v]

#freetheorcas

[@chrismore5956]

looks like takara gave birth to a wonderful baby calf. hopefully if it's a boy then he can be named tilikum in honor of tilikum who passed away in January but also means friends or bloke which is Australian for male or armageddon which means end of. or if it is a great then maybe she can be named springer in honor of springer that was rescued in captivity but then released to the wild then survives from the rehabilitation. or Shelia which means female in Austrian or sunrise which is rising of the sun. be great to know the name of the new born orca.

[@ILaunchNukes]

It was a female named Kyara.

[@elisaverderio5469]

How the trainers can be so Happy??? That's stupid! They know the thrue! I'm shock!

[@strawhatandrew8341]

Reguardless of how you feel about the Orcas in captivity, the trainers genuinely love and have a deep connection with them. To them it's like being there for a loved one having their first baby. They are naive about the over all situations of the Orcas in captivity, but their intentions are good. It's the corporate big wigs you ought to shake your fist at.

[@dodobrd1238]

Looks like she opted for the water birth.

[@bobstone2818]

The people who work at seaworld and the people who support them have a special place in hell reserved. They are monsters no animal deserves this especially a sentient one. May the orca finally find peace. It just sad that the only way the orca could be free was to die. RIP

[@leahryan5560]

Bob Stone: Sea World is not being mean and abusive. They really do care for the animals. Plus they help rescue and rehabilitate animals so they can return to the wild. But sometimes there are animals who are too young, too weak, or too injured from stranding to be returned to the wild and they have to stay in captivity. Sea World is trying to keep animals from going extinct.

[@sammybrown1609]

Leah Ryan funny how there trying to keep the animals from going "extinct" despite the fact almost all of there orcas have died under the age of 20.

[@mikerw102003]

A lot of the stuff written in "Blackfish" has been proven false. Even in the wild, close to 50% of calves die in their first year. There is a female orca named "Corky" at a SeaWorld who is 53 years old and still going strong.

[@nolagirl7082]

Leah Ryan You have no clue what your taking about!

[@green15838]

Wow what a bad statement.Sea World money goes to the sick and injured animals and I mean thousands are saved a year and they support conservation which saves thousands more.How many sea creatures have you saved?

[@ingridribeiro9772]

Belo, lindo. O bebê orca...

[@EpicSpaceflight]

I hope this isn’t the last! Come on Sea World keep it going and let them breed

[@crispycruiser4654]

You selfish prlck. Shame on you. They belong in their natural habitat

[@devotedcetacean6568]

Poor thing died like a month after

[@badmingtonsunset1386]

Devoted Cetacean 3

[@spacebug30]

Just like about half of the wild calves. The first 7 months are crucial and many calves die in the wild as well. Only one calf born in captivty that did survive its crucial period has died since 2000.

[@noraaziz4917]

Tq 4 the video

[@Kumutuna]

And we are happy because. Ughh free them all

[@benediktejakobsen]

And the father is the Tilikum

[@orcasea5278]

It´s Kyuquot.

[@brthdygrl6]

He's already dead

[@cissaguidotti]

Q amor💜💜💜💜💜

[@OneMeanArtist]

Has beautiful baby in captivity... Now let me teach you all you will need to know... Swim in a circle. The end. Maybe it's good the calf didn't live that long. Not much of a life to be had living in a bathtub anyway. :(

[@afonsoalves7088]

You just don't know anything about SeaWorld

[@mopschenperserkatze7216]

Hab ein "glückliches "Leben!!!

[@secretpersond8324]

y'all realize china has over 70 orcas in captivity.

[@kshamenkwaves6656]

Travis D They dont... orcas are everywhere in Asia, even in Russia. There’s a bunch, but not over 70.

[@spacebug30]

There are currently 12 known orcas in captivity in China I think. 70 is more or less the worldwide number I think.

[@cintiaresende1704]

Beautiful!

[@rayana7167]

So poor that it's last

[@Elfranamores]

Porque no publican el momento en el que separan a la cria de su madre. Hipócritas.

[@marhb5437]

Kyara nunca fue separada de su madre🤦🏻‍♀️

[@rickwhite4137]

The death of the calf saved it from living a boring life in captivity.

[@AlanahReeve]

she is so relaxed.... love her!!! Congratulations takara and all the sw team, Let this baby show us the wonders of the world!!! #supportseaworld #congratstakara

[@adgc37]

xxAlanahWhalexx she will despite the fact he never will! Sad

[@AlanahReeve]

anti or pro??

[@alexisxmarie4238]

samuele bottega Yea,it and all the others are protected from the dangers of the ocean. There is no more wonder in the marine environment in the wild anymore. It's sad but true.

[@MelanieAntunes27]

xxAlanahWhalexx you would support a dungeon for animals you fucking sicko

[@MelanieAntunes27]

Alexis Marie actually they just take the animals from the wild

[@brebreboolardoo5910]

Why not let them free. Sad to see them like this.

[@spacebug30]

Because they're all born in captivity and throwing them in the ocean will literally cause them to die within weeks. And even if they could survive, almost all of them are a mix between different ecotypes, which make them a huge threat to wild orca populations.

[@nikolegal8761]

This is so sad born so their baby can be stolen from the mother 😢😭

[@shaleshiacottrell6547]

Efjsggnfjfskfl😍🤪☹️😋😉😜☹️😋☺️😋😉🤪🥳

[@corriel2107]

#congrats

[@Karlebow571]

sick but I'm sorry nice love it

[@green15838]

Chubbs!!!!!

[@kathyclapp1602]

Cool!

[@makehannalaugh]

they belong in the ocean

[@afonsoalves7088]

You just don't know anything about SeaWorld.

[@nolagirl7082]

Poor thing! It will never know the true ocean, it will only know captivity until the day it dies, sad

[@TheMegaKat1]

Well, apparently it didn’t take long

[@Aethuviel]

Why do idiots keep saying it's the last born in "captivity"? First off, that is a very negative word that we should stop using, period (these animals are in a lifelong hotel, not a "prison"). Second, SeaWorld doesn't own all the zoological killer whales in the world, if that's what you thought. They only have a little over 20 whales in one country alone. Loro Parque in Spain is still breeding (and have a pregnant female right now!), two facilities in Japan are still breeding and have no plans to stop, and China and Russia are just starting with their killer whale programs, meaning we will hopefully have killer whales in human care for centuries to come, because unlike CaveWorld in the states, they don't care what some whiners who know nothing about animals, think about them.

[@kawaiiyanderlee9616]

Are you supporting what they are doing in Russia? I seriously hope not, because Moskvarium is the biggest piece of sh!t I have ever seen in my life and I don't even have the words to start explaining what's wrong with that place

[@seragake]

you are absolutely sick if you support wild captures for personal entertainment from orcas..... selfish

[@SuperLiasis]

I hope you rot in prison cell in China or Russia and you get treated "well". And for the record the baby orca died after 3 months, hopefully you will last longer :)

[@green15838]

@@SuperLiasis You are so misinformed half of babies die in the wild.The longest lived orca is in captivity and is over 50 yrs old.You are a misinformation biased Peta scoundrel.You hurt more animals through your lies and deceptions to make a uneducated agenda fly.

[@spacebug30]

Indeed, we need new blood in the line to keep future orca's healthy and sadly, the only way to do that is by capturing orca's.

[@evoion4422]

That’s animal abuse they need to take these animals to sanctuary’s

[@afonsoalves7088]

SeaWorld is better than many sanctuaries

[@VG-sb7pr]

It was so cute because the baby orca was in sea world san antonio☺😭😂📹😘

[@janjones4536]

HA!!!!! last never happens with seaworld

[@tomtonka1915]

I will be sad when the orca programs at seaworld are over. I love going to Seaworld to see these beautiful creatures. A magnificent animal.

[@MiacatloverTACOS]

Tom tonka me too

[@trustmebrothesource895]

The animals there are severly depressed. There literally putting them in baths to sleep in all day and night. Like these are very enormous creatures who need to move around. Like that's keeping a kid in a small room his entire life. And gets to go to the living room to watch TV for a workday.

[@SuperLiasis]

You can always take their place mate, get in there with your kids and we will cheer for you!