Orkid, Makani, Kalia, Amaya, and Kasatka at the Underwater Viewing (12/23/14)

[@lpsfan1931]

Cute little girl yes she yes

[@CetaceanLover]

Orkid is so sweet and playful with Makani:) I do hope she can conceive someday, she'd be a great mother

[@LovelyLilDevilWings]

she was never able to conceive so I doubt it will ever happen :(

[@TRACYBORGHESANI]

I just got home from my first trip to San Diego and Sea World. I had the time of my life and will cherish my time with the whales. Such a fantastic experience

[@horsegurl256]

From all the videos I've seen with makani, he seems closer to orkid than with Kasatka?

[@Echobeluga]

Sydney Goetz Not necessarily. He still nurses from Kasatka and trainers place him with Kasatka a lot more than they do with Orkid. He also swims in Kasatka's slipstream a lot of the time. You can see that in some videos of mine I've linked to that he and Kasatka have very much of a maternal bond going on and Orkid is at most a friend. kzbin.info/www/bejne/anywdKdmm92ZmrM kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2ezamtuYpyVesU

[@elydolphin96]

You get very awesome videos of killer whales!! And you're very lucky to see them a lot of times!! It's very interesting this video because I can hear the trainer's voice, who explain about the killer whales in the pool, for example Orkid! I follow you also in Facebook, in your photography's page! Amazing!

[@scottw3213]

Hm, interesting, whoever is speaking mentions that she was mating with another male as well. I can only assume it would be Ikaika, even though he is still related to her as well... (unless, of course, they were referring to her being A.I'd with multiple males)

[@karas.7739]

Hey! Can I use your footage? I will fully credit you, and it is not anti cap in any way. :)

[@Echobeluga]

NalaniSplash Productions Yes, this is fine. Please remember to credit me (EchoBeluga) in the descriptions of each video you use my footage in.

[@christinawiesemann1425]

Awwwww that was so cute! Was that Orkid or Kasatka that was playing with Makani in the beginning. It was kind of hard for me to tell. And what on Earth cause Kalia to take off like that? Did she just have a spurt of energy she wanted to get rid of, was it a change of weather thing and she's just trying to get the winter cob webs out? Haha. :P

[@Echobeluga]

It was Orkid. You can hear a trainer in the background talk about it and it's in the description I wrote. I can't say for sure but it might've been something Makani did since you can see him head towards their area right before she did that. Around that time I've heard about him trying to play with Amaya but Kasatka and Kalia wouldn't allow it, so Kalia's fast swimming might've been her being upset about him doing that.

[@eh21733]

People talking are irritating. But good video. Wonder why it was closed

[@Echobeluga]

SunnehShides That's not exactly right. The reason why I was confused about the fact the underwater viewing area was closed was because it's been open to the public before prior to this date with mom and baby in the pool, albeit with barriers 6 ft from the acrylic. So there was something going on this day that was different and affected public access to the viewing area. As someone in the comments who was actually there that day and heard from the trainers, it was closed because the mother preferred to not have people other than trainers in the viewing area. So it's more about what the mother is comfortable with than the calf. The calf is so young it's highly doubtful minor things like whether or not she sees guests on the other side of the glass matter to her. So I just wanted to make sure that we are posting accurate information out here and not jumping to conclusions. Also, please refrain from using derogatory and condescending language on my video comments.

[@lbabytutorials4852]

It’s terrible Ksatka and Amaya died. This is when Seaworld Dan Diego had I think 12 killer whales at one time that’s crazy lol

[@LovelyLilDevilWings]

they never had more then 12? they had 10 at the most...