SeaWorld Promotional Videos (orca clips) part 1

My mission is to inspire people to care about. Has been and is essential to understanding and protecting the killer whales in the wild. These animals will actually make them care more than they did when they came. Many who help the world fall in love with ORCA's theatrical ORCA shows. The animals will continue to live at SeaWorld, visitors can see them for years to come. The new encounters will highlight the plight of ORCA's in the wild and the oceans they inhabit and encourage guest stations. The announcement is part of the company's renewed commitment to world-class care. And I want to correct some misinformation. In this video, these two so-called killer whale experts confuse a 10-month-old calf with a nearly 3-year-old whale here at SeaWorld San Diego. The 10-month-old calf weighs about 800 pounds, however, the whale you saw in the video is nearly 3 years old and weighs 2,130 pounds and eats 65 pounds of fish per day. He hasn't been observed to be nursing in several months, however, he does still do the bumping, he does still do a lot of paraswimming and many other behaviors that we consider to be a normal part of developing and maintaining this mom-calf bond. To me, this error that you saw in this video actually highlights the opportunities that killer whale biologists have to learn and study from the whales here at SeaWorld. Killer whale biologists who only work with wild whales very rarely have the opportunity to watch a calf be born, to study nursing patterns and actually observe this mom-calf bond 100% of their time doing it. The transient killer whale ecotype spends between 2 and 7% of their time doing it. The behavior seems to be equally common in the SeaWorld killer whale ecotype. Makani is so unique and he literally makes everyone laugh. Anything and everything he does, he does it with such gusto and so much excitement. Even trainers that have been here 20 plus years are like, that little guy is so funny, he is so great. He plays with his niece Amaya, he was in there when she was born. When you're playing with him and giving him ice and water pouring in his mouth, he loves that sensation. He just starts to squeal and click and make these, you're like, where is that coming from? One of our favorite sessions, enjoying your time with them and it's just a really wonderful way to increase that respect and that bond so every time you see that whale, it just gets stronger and stronger and that is by far one of the coolest things, being a trainer. Makani has my heart. She is just one of over 30 successful killer whale calves we've had born in our parks. I understand that some people are uncomfortable with the fact that killer whales were once taken from the wild, but the world has changed a lot since then and we have changed with it. My area of expertise is bioacoustics. We're getting an accurate record of heart rate in the animals while they're diving. Once we've accomplished this here at SeaWorld, we can now use these tech. samples that are otherwise impossible to collect in the wild.