In October we brought you the story of Loro Parque's newborn Killer Whale calf. Today we received an update from this Spanish aquarium with some fascinating footage. Unfortunately the mother Orca was not feeding her baby properly so aquarists stepped in to hand feed the rambunctious calf. In order to do this, keepers needed to extract milk from mom. Lucky for them, mom seems happy to oblige as seen in the video at the bottom. In the first video, we get up close and personal with the calf as he bottle feeds.
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7 responses to “Milking a Killer Whale”
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These beautiful creatures do not belong in captivity. That is what the the ocean was created for.
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Of all the things I thought I would never see, someone milking a killer whale was well up the list. But then I never thought I’d see a scuba-diving cat either.
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Mommy orca didn’t want to feed the baby because she has never seen another orca doing that, why? because the mother was born in captivity too
It’s so sad to see these magnificent animals acting like this, when in nature this behaviour almost never happens.
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Wrong kohanna was raised with her mother till she was five during which she watched her raise her brother as well she was even in the same tank when he was born. Odds are she simply has no maternal instinct and is simply young and stupid but she will learn one day.
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Happy to report Adan (his name) is doing great is a perfect member of the pod and is now two years old, and has a new sister named Victoria born Aug 2012
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In the wild, orcas live with their mother their entire lives. If these whales were in the wild, Kohanna’s mother probably would’ve assisted her in raising the calf. Though you might want to ask some kind of expert or something for confirmation.
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Wow this is awesome, learning so much about these mammals and how human-like they are in terms of their beautiful souls
-James
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