S H He rly was. My dad was apart of the crew that took care of him in Iceland during the late 90s and early 2000s. He was one of Keiko’s main trainers and would ride, pet, and play with him everyday. He ended up leaving the team in late 2001 because I was about to be born, and Keiko died about a year and a half after my birth. It’s horrible how he died in captivity without any fellow orcas to interact with. They’re very social animals and they get depressed quite easily. Poor guy died a sad and painful death. Atleast he went out as a legend and a symbol for animal rights around the world. Rly wish I coulda met him, even if I was just a baby. I probably could’ve if my dad hadn’t abandoned the job for me (which i’m very thankful for btw). Definitely considering getting a tattoo of him at somepoint
Nicky 88 Ahhh my mistake. Didn’t know he left captivity. Either way, he died a miserable and lonely death. No other orcas would/could go near him cuz he was sick. Also just finding out he died of pneumonia :// I always assumed he just died in Iceland
Not cute.....that was one of his stereotypes from being in captivity alone. He gathered his toys up like that also in Reno Adventura because he was so lonely, his toys were his only friends....
@@DomOfSin666 He wasn’t Lonely Before he Died.They Discovered him with a Pod.But it wasn’t his because if it was he would’ve stayed there or his mother rejected him.If it wasn’t his pod he probably joined it And he mated with the other Females then left.
I am so glad I was one of those 90s kids who grew up with "Free Willy" and knowing about Keiko's odyssey. I was heartbroken when I found out he died, but I am happy he died a free orca.
@@thehopelesshobbit8731 but he's right, I heard that he frantically greeted humans wanting his old life back. Or that he'd commonly stay in people's backyards with oceans. The ocean is big and scary and he wasn't ready for it
The others only snap because they aren't being properly cared for. They are being starved, kept imprisoned in tiny tanks that are way to small for them. Etc.
@@WildeMermaid Let's say then that seaworld are the real culprits that the killer whales have this aggressive behavior, fortunately keiko ended up in a place where he was not mistreated and exploited
problem is that it may be good, but the animal rights activists weren't fond of it. There's a book called Killing Keiko, that exposed that some Animal Rights organizations were obsessed with optics in saving an orca they barely understood that rehabilitating a whale that's been raised in captivity for so long is asking the impossible
@Sarah Arshad VIII-C-A Keiko was constantly bullied around other whales. He never got along with any whales. You think that’s a good life for him? He loved humans and never wanted to be around other whales
@@aa329809 actually he was living in the ocean in a seapen before his release into the wild, so he got to enjoy the ocean a lot more. Keiko also wasnt the best candidate for release as he did have a love for humans and didnt get along with any pods he encountered while on his 'walks' from his seapen into the open ocean where he could have just, swam off at any point
I remember seeing him while he was in Oregon. We walk into the viewing room and he was right next to the glass. It was almost as if every new visitor would catch his attention. Like everyone else I was both shocked and saddened when I heard that he had passed away. He deserved a better life than what he had.
Though Keiko did not survive, those who helped him can all at least take comfort in knowing that, when Keiko died, the whale we all once knew as Willy was free.
You know what is crazy about Keiko? He was only supposed to live like 3 or 5 more months in captivity but because he got a chance to live in the wild, he lived for five more YEARS. Crazy!!
Your arithmetic is faulty. Two years in Oregon, four years in seapens, one year of "freedom". Freedom is not the "Free Willy" fantasy so many continue to think it is. That is what is truly " crazy".
@@tessdurberville711 Are you delusional? Keiko lived longer when he was released into the wild than he would have lived if he had continued to be held in captivity. If you think having these intelligent animals in captivity is okay when they're held in spaces too small for them and you can visibly see the self harm they've inflicted into themselves inside captivity then you have absolutely no empathy or a soul. People like you is why our oceans are suffering and our wild animals are increasingly becoming endangered. At least he got the chance to live in the wild after a life of suffering. Lolita and other orcas like her never got that chance.
@@mini6876 No, but you clearly are, if you think that your future holds anything more than contributing to the surplus population. The animals in zoos and aquariums are the ambassadors for those in the wild. Without them, orcas would still be considered nothing but pests.
I wonder what Keiko was thinking about humans when he was about to die. "You fuckers.you took me when i was young,spent most of my time in a pool.freed me,no freaking clue what the outside world is.and here i am,dying..."
wow they really romanticised the whole situation didn't they? in actuality, Keiko didn't seem to WANT to be free. he loved humans, and had learnt to be lazy. obviously the "un-training" helped that, but it was still there, and that's why he ended up begging for food, and approaching swimmers.
actually he didn't beg for food, he wanted human attention because he couldn't find a pod to get along with. He wasn't the best candidate for release considering his attachment to humans, like Luna. (though i know a few that would be best candidates for release) But he wasn't exactly starving himself or anything when he swam to Norway, he had been feeding himself along the way. People intervened because he missed humans, not because he was hungry.
@@beautifulgudrun8802 what's normal, watching him being sunburn in the Mexican sun, chewing on paint. No one knows how much longer he would of lived in a concrete pool!
@@Funksinthehouse you seem to have decided that i supported his conditions at Reino Adventura. i don't. the park loved him and cared for him, but their facilities where shit. i personally think they should of kept him in the seapen, taking him out on daily walks. he craved human attention, dumping him in the open ocean wasn't the best decision.
He died only a few months after being in the wild because he couldnt fit in a pod, his immune system wasn't prepared for the wild, and he kept seeking out humans. It can hardly be considered a successful release as he never got to live an actual life in the wild. He should have been kept in a sea sanctuary. Social pressure is what killed keiko.
it is very hard for an intelligent being to adapt to something at a late age because most of their behaviour is learnt and not primal instincts. the best analogy is human feral children who basically grow up isolated from other humans. and even after 20 years of rehabilitation, they can't even acquire the ability of speech their brains are already wired differently.
@Robert 0077 , (Edited. Ahh, sorry man, just got the Komo News Reference about the trip you speak of, I had that mixed with the trip out of Cali) he was flown, from what I looked into. They say it took 20 plus hours, and he didnt do to well during it all. He kept sticking to one area in Iceland, and they tried many times to teach him how to be free, and stay alive; not a good job for humans it seems. In the end, he was rejected by a pod, during an attempt for an open ocean run with them, and it was downhill for Keico not long after. (I only watched another documentary about what I just said, I haven't directly researched beyond it yet).
“HiS iMmUnE sYsTeM wAsN’t PrEpArEd” Here’s a little lesson in dolphin vaccination. Pathogens build up more easily in tanks than the ocean. Why? Because tanks are enclosed spaces in which filtration just goes right back into the enclosed space. The ocean has way too much room and movement for that. This is why only fish in tanks can catch marine ich. Now with that concept in mind, also keep in mind that orcas have VERY weak immune systems. As such, any whale or dolphin which does not receive a vaccination is nearly guaranteed to die within just one week in a tank. Karen Pryor detailed this in her memoir about her time as head marine mammal trainer at Sea Life Park in Hawaii. Keiko was literally the only vaccinated in an ocean of anti-vaxxers. His death by pneumonia could’ve been enhanced by his older age, as he outlived most captive males by the time he died. Pneumonia, the illness that killed him, also killed four whales at SeaWorld in the past three years: 36-year-old Tilikum, 3-month-old Kyara, 41-year-old Kasatka, and 30-year-old Kayla.
RIP Keiko at least you passed away happy and free. He should have been left in the seapen indefinitely because that was a huge mistake for putting back into the wild without knowing where his family was located.
Yes it was. Parents money given though lots of it. It should have all come from the organizations that plucked them out of their natural habitats. They made a ton of money off these beautiful killer whales amongst other sea creatures they had taken from their homes. The crooks that are all part of this monstrosity should be the one to pay the price for what they have done. Nit ask more $$$$$$$$$$$ from the citizens. That's insane!
@@itsikabitch9005 Until they lost their funding and they were not feeding him the full amount to "teach" him to hunt. I believe the credible people, not a RUclipsr with a crude name and most likely, a ninth grade education.
@@tessdurberville711 Mark Simmons is not credible, he has severe bias due to his career in dolphin capture... And Keiko was proven capable of hunting after release, but you conveniently forgot that as well I guess. As for “ninth grade education,” I’m a marine bio major who’s getting my bachelor’s next year. What you just did is called an ad hominem, and since you don’t know what a straw man is, I’ll explain this one. It’s an uneducated attack on a person rather than the information they present, generally used by people who know they’re wrong to try to discredit any damaging factual information.
@@itsikabitch9005 Then neither is Ric O'Barry or the other guilty aging hippies trying to assuage their guilt for their past crimes by committing new ones in the name of activism. I hope you do not expect me to just believe you. It is not as if either of us will be uploading our degrees here, is it? Interesting. The straw man tactic is used on me at least once a day here. I never knew there was a name for it.
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If Keiko had another Orca that he was being untrained with and was bonded with both Orcas would have been more successful. Also, the fact he was a male Orca that usually only live on the outskirts of the Orca society did not help as well as being 100% habituated to humans. That was one of the reasons they never would release Tilikum he was habituated to humans and had also killed three people in captivity so he most likely would have always sought them out.
You dont rehabilitate a whale by continuing to swim with him. These people are just extremely selfish and wanted to continue to have contact with him despite it being detrimental.
If you ever see a killer whale with its dorsal fin like that, it means they are unhealthy and depressed. Keiko died because he had no idea how to survive in the wild and because his only family was us, humans, he did not know how to interact with his own species that’s horrible.
Of course the following comment would receive some ‘brutal’ backlash but here are the ‘corrections’ on dorsal collapse in captivity. 1. The whale spends all its time on the surface which allows gravity to slowly cause it to bend under its own weight. The dorsal fin is also made of cartilage not bone. 2. It’s not depression or health decline. It’s not like a killer whale would have some kind of telekinetic ability to control its dorsal fin to go up when it’s happy or down when it’s sad. 3. There are no currents in captivity. In the wild, the currents create pressure caused by billions of molecules bumping against either side of the fin in a similar manner to when air molecules hit the underside of the wings of a plane allowing it to fly. This applies especially when the whale is often travelling. In captivity, no currents, no water pressure and the dorsal bends.
watching this in 2023 is surreal. Free Willy was the first movie I saw as a child that made me cry. This editing style is so reminiscent of the time! And the commentary very much explains how much no one gave a f about sealife at the time...nostalgia!
Keiko NEVER learned to be wild. After seeing him twice while he was in Newport, Oregon I am still furious that he didn't get to stay there. His health was good and he was quite content because he had plenty of company each day. Instead the poor creature died alone in a strange place because he was lonely and confused. That was just inexcusable!
Keiko didn't die alone. When it was clear that he was sick, his veterinarians quickly intervened. However, by that point Keiko's Pneumonia was too severe and he died from respiratory failure. Keiko didn't resist the medical treatment he was being given. I think Keiko knew he was sick and he knew these humans actually were there to help.
How about the truth? How they abandoned this poorly wild-trained animal in the middle of the ocean and he had to fend for himself from that moment on? How he travelled hundreds of miles without making any succesful contact with other orcas? How he hadn't eaten a single thing in all that time he was missing? How he would rather live around humans and have his food tossed his mouth because he was absolutely clueless on how to hunt on his own? How he eventually died a tragic dead from disease that could've been prevented if he was just transported to a better, more specialized facility? Keiko's story is a story of how activists' agenda is once again pushed down everyone throat, even the animal's, and ends in nothing but pain, death and suffering that could've been prevented if they would've listened to actual experts. Those experts who warned them he couldn't swim free, that he wasn't ready, that wild pods would reject him. It's disgusting how the mainstream media tries to romanticize this story into something good. You have to be blind to not see what's wrong with this. Trying to make an orca wild again, yet keep playing with it in the water like a big puppy? Keep asking him to do tricks over and over again. These people just wanted their 15 minutes of fame, and they got it, on the huge cost of this beautiful animal's life. At a specialized facility, he would probably have been alive today.
He starved in the wild? Yet lived 5 years? Yes he may have lived longer in the facility...but you have to question his quality of life. I do agree he was very use to humans and released early. However I don’t think the idea of releasing captive animals should be pushed aside. There were many errors.. the tank looked absolutely nothing like the open see, and was still a public display.
If he was transferred to another facility he would have either died or ended the way Tilikum became which was a serial killer whale. To me because he was too attached to humans after being put on display for 20+ years he should have been kept at the sea pen where he was at or should have been transferred to an open sea sanctuary to retire
@@bitchhp2973 He lived in a seapen for 5 years. He lived truly wild for less than a month, which is the time between his 'release' and when he arrived in Norway and was fed by people again. A little timeline: - 1996: Arrival in Oregon (tank) - September 9 1998: Arrival in Iceland (seapen) - Summer 2002: Free in the ocean - Late summer 2002 (a few weeks later): Arrival in Norway, fishermen started feeding him - December 12 2003: Keiko, 27yrs, dies in Norway The only time he was truly free (aka, having to fend for himself) was during the few weeks he travelled from Iceland to Norway. And as I said, he should've been transferred to a specialized(!) facility, for example SeaWorld. The park in Mexico had no idea what they were doing and he indeed wasn't living a good life there.
@@annetteslife Indeed, a seapen, or stayed in Oregon where they built a 2 million gallon tank for him. He was doing fine and made actual progress in his health until the moment they 'released' him.
@@spacebug30 that is what I had thought because he was moved way too soon or at least waited until OSHA or another foundation was able to set up an open sea sanctuary for him. Like there is a safari like sanctuary in California where two elephants from a Toronto Canada zoo was transferred to retire with other former zoo and circus animals in a more natural open space environment. It was the Bob Barker foundation who had these two elephants transferred from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California. Having Keiko transferred to a sea sanctuary would have been a much smarter transfer or like you had said him stay in that pen in Oregon where he began to thrive. Tilikum on the other hand would have done much better with a full transfer because he didn't become easily attached to humans as Keiko. When Tilikum killed it was his saying I want to go home. To me Tilikum would have been a better candidate for a full transfer back into the wild
You can tell that keiko was depressed. Her fin was folded over. Her fin should never be like that. It should be straight up like the orcas at the end in the wild. She may have been getting healthy but she was severely depressed
He bloody died not long after his release. Millions of dollars collected from a foundation raising money to have him released back to his natural habitat and he was ignored by the other killer Whales. He ended up alone and died thanks to greed, taking him away from where he was from to make him do unnatural things for a friggin film to make Millions of dollars off of. Also making more money off of him by having him in an enclosed environment doing tricks for the public. These organizations should really be ashamed of themselves for what they did and still do. They should be fined largely for disrupting nature. Banned from it completely.
es una pena que nunca lo logro ya que si fue liberada en mar abierto pero al estar tan acostumbrada a ser alimentada por seres humanos y convivir con ellos se enfermo no pudo aprender a cazar por si misma ni a vivir en libertad
Obviously these animals should not be bred or captured into captivity. Of those that are already in captivity, there are certain individuals who _might_ be good candidates for release. It was painfully obvious that Keiko was not one of them, however. Dogmatic animal rights advocates myopically ensured that Keiko died alone, abandoned, sick, hungry, and heartbroken.
The 2 years he had in the wild were worth 2 decades in a tank. I only hope that in the future, cetaceans released from captivity fare better thanks to the lessons Keiko taught
Let's face it: They ruined Keikos live. They kidnapped him as a baby from his mother and took him into a tiny tank. It's abuse nothing more, nothing less....
you do realize he had an infection prior to being released that eventually caught up to him. He was doing fine in the wild for FIVE years before dying due to pneumonia (a lung infection). Get your mind out the gutter. They even proved he was in better health when 'untraining' him, before he could only be underwater for 3 minutes which then changed to 18 minutes. If that's not proof he was getting healthier and adjusting to a better life, then I don't know what else to tell you. I'm sure keiko has no regrets being let free out of his concrete jungle into the beautiful abyss of natural wonders beneath the ocean.
Stodium, you still can’t integrate a captive whale into a pod of wild whales, just like you can’t integrate a captive lion into a pride. It’s a death sentence period. At least in captive keiko could have gotten vet care.
@Rich Devoll Yes, he would have received vet care, but he probably would not be as happy as he was in a sea pen or in the ocean. I think that he wasn't the best candidate for release due to his attachment to humans. He should have been kept in a sea sanctuary where he had a good amount of space to swim and dive, and still have help from humans if he needed it.
Rich Devoll The last four whales to die at SeaWorld were killed by the exact infection that killed Keiko despite vet care. Sorry but when a captive orca gets sick, even with vet care, it’s immune system is too weak to survive.
This is Corky she is the oldest killer whale. And seen in the movie Free Corky. In the movie A smurf helped him go free. Far from her home the waters of busan.
Helping animals train must be fun, although at amusement parks it must be really hard seeing these whales so depressed and all. But this helping captive whales learn to be "wild" again must be 100x better
Tess d'Urberville That article literally states that he died of a lung infection. You know who else died of a lung infection? Tilikum, Kasatka, Kyara, and Kayla. And that’s just the past four years.
i feel so bad seeing the floppy dorsals:( if you worked there and say it go from normal to flop wouldnt that break your heart? id hope everyone would go on strike, atleast he was freed, no orcas should be in captivity. any attack on trainer wasnt their fault. they are the most amazing creatures of the world
I wouldn't call Keiko "free." He was never free, all he did was get dumped into the ocean. He didn't hunt, he didn't socialize with other orcas... he just wanted people's company, and that was denied to him. And floppy dorsals are perfectly normal for captive male orcas and not a sign of stress of bad health at all
@@philorcinus13 wow that is so wrong. The dorsal collapse is only seen as normal because of its commonality in captive male Orcas. It isn't normal, it is due to nutritional deficiencies. Also Keiko did hunt for himself as he traveled from Iceland to Norway. He also did attempt to socialize with wild pods of Orcas but never integrated sadly. He only sought human interaction because he was trained to rely on humans for affection, food, etc. He also was not denied human interaction when freed it was just interacting in a different way. He should have perhaps been kept in a Sea Pen as he did crave the human interaction. Either way it was a lot better than him being imprisoned in a tiny concrete tank.
@@WildeMermaid Actually, the dorsal has been seen to stand back up in cases of release. It's just cartilage. The more exercise and colder the waters, the faster it rights itself again. And Keiko was denied affection by humans. They tried to encourage him to stop coming back to humans with the "Turn your Back" policy that was put into place, because he kept coming up to canoes, kayaks, and small boats for attention. There's a documentary focused solely around Keiko, with footage of him in the sea pen and undergoing more training there. Also, Kiska and Keiko were picked up together. Kiska ended up in Marineland, Canada all by herself, while Keiko was sold to Reno Adventura, Mexico. They're trying to work on a seaside sanctuary in Nova Scotia, Canada, where all entertainment Cetaceans can retire and experience the real ocean once again. Look up kiska and you can find a ton of information on her and the sanctuary.
starsan I didn’t mean to start an argument but my mom used to work as a vet at the aquarium in Oregon and she told me that he had a skin infection that he got from the water being to warm when he lived in Mexico and my mom said that her and the other vets estimated that he would only had a few years to live so they figured that him dying in the wild is better then dying in a small tank
Unless your mom was a vet for him, no. That isn't what happened at all. They expected him to live much, much longer. They were all shocked by his sudden death. Watch the documentaries about him after he died, they all state it
starsan like I said I don’t want to argue I’m just believing what my mom said since she used to work there and I don’t think she would lie to me I’m sorry if I made you mad in any way I was just stating what my mom told me.
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.
He died lonely and lost on a beach in Norway. At least he was “free” I guess. We should really leave these animals alone and his story should be a cautionary tale to end orca captivity.
Jennifer Lamont Omg I have great news for you! Russia has set the quota for orca captures at 0 for two years in a row now. All of the orcas that were illegally captured in the Whale Jail in 2018 have since been released. Russia was the last nation on Earth which permitted the capture of killer whales, which means it is now illegal to capture or kill an orca in all nations.
Not that I am aware of but many have been & are fighting for Miami Seaquarium to retire Lolita/Tokitae & return her to the Salish Sea where a Sea Pen is waiting. She was captured 51yrs ago in Puget Sound. She hasn't seen another Orca or Whale since 1980. Her mother & pod are still alive & in that area so she could possibly be reunited with them. . . if only we could get her released.
They're working on getting Lolita freed, but haven't made much progress until she was discovered to be incredibly ill. It seems like they're only willing to release them (for good company image) when they know they're really sick and probably won't make it.
I was lucky to be there on a day there was no crowd and they were just teaching him how to hunt for salmon that were already stunned or dead. I wish the aquarium in Newport had left his tank to rehabilitate more large sea mammals.
Whether he went free or stayed in Oregon, either way he couldn't stay in Mexico, his health was deteriorating to the point his kidneys were on the verge of failure.
I didn't know that Keiko the whale from the Free Willy films died I was sad I was a child when I watched the Free Willy films rest in peace Keiko 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Dorsal collapse is a result of too much time at the surface. His tank in Mexico was incredibly shallow, so he basically got stuck floating at the surface. Without water pressure and with the Mexican sun constantly shining on him, his dorsal fin destabilized and eventually flopped over.
Yeah so they can also die from stress induced pneumonia like keiko did after getting beat up by wild orcas. Keiko never became truly wild.keiko had to be constantly cared for by a crew on a boat that fed him and basicly took him for walks.
I don't understand why they didn't try and find his family first. One they can't just put him with another pod. Like humans they speak a different languages. They should of recorded his tons and hunted his family. It's awful he did alone. They should never be taken to begin with.
Jamie Dumas When killer whale pods get too big they leave their original pod to form their own or join others Adult males are the ones that tend to leave to avoid interbreeding He wouldn't be alone for long (he found a pod), the problem turned out to be that he still preferred the company of humans so he ended up leaving behind the pod to hang arround a town that his pod used to pass by
Gandalf the Tsaagan Adult males are actually the last to leave the pod. They remain by their mothers side until one dies in all known populations. Males are often too subdominant to go off on their own. Mature females with their own calves are usually the only ones who may leave. Even if a male’s mother dies, they will stick with a sister or niece. Genetic diversity comes from superpods rather than pod re-organization.
Very concerned about this. Not because he doesn’t deserve to be free, but because he could’ve picked up diseases that wild orcas in his region aren’t capable of fighting. So... I’m sorry I don’t think captive orcas should be returned to the wild after a 6 month period in captivity.
@@Aurora-jw3mz thank you for the information. I think they should have left Keiko in that Oregon tank until they were able to find and or build a Sea Sanctuary for him to retire. I think it was kind of a dumb move to have Keiko moved to Iceland because they knew he was that attached to humans.
@@annetteslife it was indeed a bad idea, but like someone else pointed out, the failure of this program was not that he wasn't capable of returning to the wild, but that the humans didn't prepare him well enough. Up until the last year before his release his trainers still went in the water with him. In fact they stunned the fish they put in his tank to 'teach' him to hunt. In the wild, fish aren't stunned. They're fast. And finally, at his age maybe they should have indeed build a sea enclosure that would've gave served of retirement place. Can't imagine how lost he must have been when he found himself all alone in an unknown world.
@@Aurora-jw3mz like you had said it was a combination of things. What excuse my French pissed me off was when he placed in that tank in Oregon he was still put on public display which I thought was odd and a very bad idea because he still had. human interaction. I thought that the whole idea of rescuing Keiko was to not only rehabilitate him but to help him break free from any human contact. like you had said the people helping him had done everything too fast. He basically went from one tank to another instead straight to an open sea sanctuary to live out whatever time he had left
@@annetteslife we can only hope that new programs will be better, but there's still a very little chance of orca's being released in the wild as it is, sadly.
Tess d'Urberville I mean true but even SeaWorld gave Keiko about 3 months to live given his condition in Mexico. 7 years ain’t bad at all. It might’ve been more if he stayed in the sea pen, but Reino Aventura was certainly not suitable for him.
The fact that keiko takes himself and his toys to a corner of his tank to sleep is just too much for me sooo cute. Keiko was the best orca ever.
S H He rly was. My dad was apart of the crew that took care of him in Iceland during the late 90s and early 2000s. He was one of Keiko’s main trainers and would ride, pet, and play with him everyday. He ended up leaving the team in late 2001 because I was about to be born, and Keiko died about a year and a half after my birth. It’s horrible how he died in captivity without any fellow orcas to interact with. They’re very social animals and they get depressed quite easily. Poor guy died a sad and painful death. Atleast he went out as a legend and a symbol for animal rights around the world. Rly wish I coulda met him, even if I was just a baby. I probably could’ve if my dad hadn’t abandoned the job for me (which i’m very thankful for btw). Definitely considering getting a tattoo of him at somepoint
Nicky 88 Ahhh my mistake. Didn’t know he left captivity. Either way, he died a miserable and lonely death. No other orcas would/could go near him cuz he was sick. Also just finding out he died of pneumonia :// I always assumed he just died in Iceland
Ain't shit cute about being in prison
Not cute.....that was one of his stereotypes from being in captivity alone. He gathered his toys up like that also in Reno Adventura because he was so lonely, his toys were his only friends....
@@DomOfSin666 He wasn’t Lonely Before he Died.They Discovered him with a Pod.But it wasn’t his because if it was he would’ve stayed there or his mother rejected him.If it wasn’t his pod he probably joined it And he mated with the other Females then left.
I am so glad I was one of those 90s kids who grew up with "Free Willy" and knowing about Keiko's odyssey. I was heartbroken when I found out he died, but I am happy he died a free orca.
he was not really prepared to be on the open sea, that's the reason of his death
@@nriq_ he had a chance more than others get u prick
@@thehopelesshobbit8731 but he's right, I heard that he frantically greeted humans wanting his old life back. Or that he'd commonly stay in people's backyards with oceans. The ocean is big and scary and he wasn't ready for it
“Happy he died a free orca” literally the reason he died was because he was free.
@@porkypig8008 yep
Gotta love the nonchalant "his teeth have to be repaired after years of chewing on concrete" 😔
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Thats a clear sign he was stressed from being locked up. Disgusting people!
Most of the other orca's in captivaty have snapped and hurt people... But this whale... So sweet and gentle. Makes sense he couldn't adapt. So so sad
The others only snap because they aren't being properly cared for. They are being starved, kept imprisoned in tiny tanks that are way to small for them. Etc.
@@WildeMermaid Let's say then that seaworld are the real culprits that the killer whales have this aggressive behavior, fortunately keiko ended up in a place where he was not mistreated and exploited
@@WildeMermaid they are not straved and the pools are 2nd biggest in the world for orcas
The definition of a gentle giant
It’s crazy to think that even after he was set free in the wild, Keiko still picked people over his own kind. And he was happy being around people too
problem is that it may be good, but the animal rights activists weren't fond of it. There's a book called Killing Keiko, that exposed that some Animal Rights organizations were obsessed with optics in saving an orca they barely understood that rehabilitating a whale that's been raised in captivity for so long is asking the impossible
Right its insane they set the most friendliest orca free but not the ones that were goig more insane from isolation
He was stolen from his Family! He should never have been in Captivity!!!
No wild animal should be in Captivity , being exploited for $$$$ animal Cruelty!
He was seeking help because he was dying. He died alone because of selfish idealism.
Kieko was such a beautiful soul.
Emily Burns yes he was
Very cute
And he did nothing wrong to be in captivity
@@erindakers8356 that's just how yal do.
@Sarah Arshad VIII-C-A Keiko was constantly bullied around other whales. He never got along with any whales. You think that’s a good life for him? He loved humans and never wanted to be around other whales
He’s so beautiful. I can never get enough of him. Each time I see footage it’s like the first time.
So glad Keiko was able swim in the ocean again after his time in captivity.
Keiko died a whole after he was released
@@aa329809 actually he was living in the ocean in a seapen before his release into the wild, so he got to enjoy the ocean a lot more.
Keiko also wasnt the best candidate for release as he did have a love for humans and didnt get along with any pods he encountered while on his 'walks' from his seapen into the open ocean where he could have just, swam off at any point
He literally slowly suffered to death...
spacebug30 he was already sick before they released him he had an illness that couldn’t be cured
spacebug30, Well at least he got to experience some freedom and didn’t die in a tank at SeaWorld!
My dad met Keiko when he was little
He must be a great hero for generations,
I remember seeing him while he was in Oregon. We walk into the viewing room and he was right next to the glass. It was almost as if every new visitor would catch his attention.
Like everyone else I was both shocked and saddened when I heard that he had passed away. He deserved a better life than what he had.
He was so gentle he was amazing 🙏🐬
I just feel such a strong and overwhelming love for this creature
Though Keiko did not survive, those who helped him can all at least take comfort in knowing that, when Keiko died, the whale we all once knew as Willy was free.
God created something rather amazing when he made Keiko❤
You know what is crazy about Keiko? He was only supposed to live like 3 or 5 more months in captivity but because he got a chance to live in the wild, he lived for five more YEARS. Crazy!!
Your arithmetic is faulty. Two years in Oregon, four years in seapens, one year of "freedom". Freedom is not the "Free Willy" fantasy so many continue to think it is. That is what is truly " crazy".
@@tessdurberville711 Are you delusional? Keiko lived longer when he was released into the wild than he would have lived if he had continued to be held in captivity. If you think having these intelligent animals in captivity is okay when they're held in spaces too small for them and you can visibly see the self harm they've inflicted into themselves inside captivity then you have absolutely no empathy or a soul. People like you is why our oceans are suffering and our wild animals are increasingly becoming endangered. At least he got the chance to live in the wild after a life of suffering. Lolita and other orcas like her never got that chance.
@@mini6876 No, but you clearly are, if you think that your future holds anything more than contributing to the surplus population.
The animals in zoos and aquariums are the ambassadors for those in the wild. Without them, orcas would still be considered nothing but pests.
@@tessdurberville711 Are narwhals pests? I don’t recall those ever being successfully held in captivity.
@@tessdurberville711 what a load of shit
I wonder what Keiko was thinking about humans when he was about to die. "You fuckers.you took me when i was young,spent most of my time in a pool.freed me,no freaking clue what the outside world is.and here i am,dying..."
He was unique, amazing and beautiful!
wow they really romanticised the whole situation didn't they? in actuality, Keiko didn't seem to WANT to be free. he loved humans, and had learnt to be lazy. obviously the "un-training" helped that, but it was still there, and that's why he ended up begging for food, and approaching swimmers.
actually he didn't beg for food, he wanted human attention because he couldn't find a pod to get along with. He wasn't the best candidate for release considering his attachment to humans, like Luna. (though i know a few that would be best candidates for release) But he wasn't exactly starving himself or anything when he swam to Norway, he had been feeding himself along the way. People intervened because he missed humans, not because he was hungry.
Orcas approach swimmers on the wild all the time.
@@deftone4656 that's not a good thing. (also Keiko let children ride on his back. that's not normal)
@@beautifulgudrun8802 what's normal, watching him being sunburn in the Mexican sun, chewing on paint. No one knows how much longer he would of lived in a concrete pool!
@@Funksinthehouse you seem to have decided that i supported his conditions at Reino Adventura. i don't. the park loved him and cared for him, but their facilities where shit. i personally think they should of kept him in the seapen, taking him out on daily walks. he craved human attention, dumping him in the open ocean wasn't the best decision.
I LOVE YOU KEIKO🐳🙏🏻🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🕊
I wish I could have experienced being around such an amazing creature. He was absolutely amazing.
He died only a few months after being in the wild because he couldnt fit in a pod, his immune system wasn't prepared for the wild, and he kept seeking out humans. It can hardly be considered a successful release as he never got to live an actual life in the wild. He should have been kept in a sea sanctuary. Social pressure is what killed keiko.
Call me naïve, but I'm glad he died a free orca.
it is very hard for an intelligent being to adapt to something at a late age because most of their behaviour is learnt and not primal instincts. the best analogy is human feral children who basically grow up isolated from other humans. and even after 20 years of rehabilitation, they can't even acquire the ability of speech their brains are already wired differently.
@Robert 0077 ,
(Edited. Ahh, sorry man, just got the Komo News Reference about the trip you speak of, I had that mixed with the trip out of Cali)
he was flown, from what I looked into. They say it took 20 plus hours, and he didnt do to well during it all. He kept sticking to one area in Iceland, and they tried many times to teach him how to be free, and stay alive; not a good job for humans it seems. In the end, he was rejected by a pod, during an attempt for an open ocean run with them, and it was downhill for Keico not long after. (I only watched another documentary about what I just said, I haven't directly researched beyond it yet).
Bethany Ribet very sad
“HiS iMmUnE sYsTeM wAsN’t PrEpArEd”
Here’s a little lesson in dolphin vaccination. Pathogens build up more easily in tanks than the ocean. Why? Because tanks are enclosed spaces in which filtration just goes right back into the enclosed space. The ocean has way too much room and movement for that. This is why only fish in tanks can catch marine ich.
Now with that concept in mind, also keep in mind that orcas have VERY weak immune systems. As such, any whale or dolphin which does not receive a vaccination is nearly guaranteed to die within just one week in a tank. Karen Pryor detailed this in her memoir about her time as head marine mammal trainer at Sea Life Park in Hawaii. Keiko was literally the only vaccinated in an ocean of anti-vaxxers. His death by pneumonia could’ve been enhanced by his older age, as he outlived most captive males by the time he died. Pneumonia, the illness that killed him, also killed four whales at SeaWorld in the past three years: 36-year-old Tilikum, 3-month-old Kyara, 41-year-old Kasatka, and 30-year-old Kayla.
Miss u keiko...❤❤❤😭😭😭
C'est un documentaire magnifique! Keiko était funny. J'adore! Merci!
Wonderful that he was able to enjoy some freedom before he died. Unfortunately evil people institutionalized him and he was never able to adjust.
RIP Keiko at least you passed away happy and free. He should have been left in the seapen indefinitely because that was a huge mistake for putting back into the wild without knowing where his family was located.
Yes
I completely agree!
I met Keiko as a child and am now seeing him as a 24 year old man is kinda makes me sad.
God Bless these Beautiful Children having Compassion for Animals!!! ❤🙏
Yes it was. Parents money given though lots of it. It should have all come from the organizations that plucked them out of their natural habitats. They made a ton of money off these beautiful killer whales amongst other sea creatures they had taken from their homes. The crooks that are all part of this monstrosity should be the one to pay the price for what they have done. Nit ask more $$$$$$$$$$$ from the citizens. That's insane!
RIP KEKO!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳❤️💛💚💕💞💙🧡💜💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
I cried when I found out he passed away but I was happy for him he got to live free for his last few years
One year and he died sick, alone and hungry. Nothing to be "happy" about!
@@tessdurberville711 He was literally being fed by the foundation that released him 🤦♂️
@@itsikabitch9005 Until they lost their funding and they were not feeding him the full amount to "teach" him to hunt. I believe the credible people, not a RUclipsr with a crude name and most likely, a ninth grade education.
@@tessdurberville711 Mark Simmons is not credible, he has severe bias due to his career in dolphin capture...
And Keiko was proven capable of hunting after release, but you conveniently forgot that as well I guess.
As for “ninth grade education,” I’m a marine bio major who’s getting my bachelor’s next year. What you just did is called an ad hominem, and since you don’t know what a straw man is, I’ll explain this one. It’s an uneducated attack on a person rather than the information they present, generally used by people who know they’re wrong to try to discredit any damaging factual information.
@@itsikabitch9005 Then neither is Ric O'Barry or the other guilty aging hippies trying to assuage their guilt for their past crimes by committing new ones in the name of activism.
I hope you do not expect me to just believe you. It is not as if either of us will be uploading our degrees here, is it?
Interesting. The straw man tactic is used on me at least once a day here. I never knew there was a name for it.
Keiko was so beautiful 🤧
Sorry 5 minutes is CRIMINAL I NEED MOREEEEE
I LOVE YOU KEIKO MORE MOST THAN ANY PERSON OR FAN EVER COULD!!!!!!!!!!! I WORSHIP ORCAS AND KEIKO THE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳💜🧡💙💞💕💚💛
If Keiko had another Orca that he was being untrained with and was bonded with both Orcas would have been more successful. Also, the fact he was a male Orca that usually only live on the outskirts of the Orca society did not help as well as being 100% habituated to humans. That was one of the reasons they never would release Tilikum he was habituated to humans and had also killed three people in captivity so he most likely would have always sought them out.
That would still be impossible as each orca has their own language, culture, etc
You dont rehabilitate a whale by continuing to swim with him. These people are just extremely selfish and wanted to continue to have contact with him despite it being detrimental.
Are you a trainer a pro in this field??
Stephanie Ann, 👍I agree! I think this made Keiko even more vulnerable to people( with bad intentions) who could’ve easily tried to harm him.
That is why he swam to different coastal villages while being, "free"
If you ever see a killer whale with its dorsal fin like that, it means they are unhealthy and depressed. Keiko died because he had no idea how to survive in the wild and because his only family was us, humans, he did not know how to interact with his own species that’s horrible.
This is not what most scientists believe
Of course the following comment would receive some ‘brutal’ backlash but here are the ‘corrections’ on dorsal collapse in captivity.
1. The whale spends all its time on the surface which allows gravity to slowly cause it to bend under its own weight. The dorsal fin is also made of cartilage not bone.
2. It’s not depression or health decline. It’s not like a killer whale would have some kind of telekinetic ability to control its dorsal fin to go up when it’s happy or down when it’s sad.
3. There are no currents in captivity. In the wild, the currents create pressure caused by billions of molecules bumping against either side of the fin in a similar manner to when air molecules hit the underside of the wings of a plane allowing it to fly. This applies especially when the whale is often travelling. In captivity, no currents, no water pressure and the dorsal bends.
watching this in 2023 is surreal. Free Willy was the first movie I saw as a child that made me cry. This editing style is so reminiscent of the time! And the commentary very much explains how much no one gave a f about sealife at the time...nostalgia!
Keiko died on Tuesday, and my brother's big German Shepherd, Rebel, died on Thursday of the same week. That was a sad week.
Keiko NEVER learned to be wild. After seeing him twice while he was in Newport, Oregon I am still furious that he didn't get to stay there. His health was good and he was quite content because he had plenty of company each day. Instead the poor creature died alone in a strange place because he was lonely and confused. That was just inexcusable!
Keiko didn't die alone. When it was clear that he was sick, his veterinarians quickly intervened. However, by that point Keiko's Pneumonia was too severe and he died from respiratory failure.
Keiko didn't resist the medical treatment he was being given. I think Keiko knew he was sick and he knew these humans actually were there to help.
How about the truth? How they abandoned this poorly wild-trained animal in the middle of the ocean and he had to fend for himself from that moment on? How he travelled hundreds of miles without making any succesful contact with other orcas? How he hadn't eaten a single thing in all that time he was missing? How he would rather live around humans and have his food tossed his mouth because he was absolutely clueless on how to hunt on his own? How he eventually died a tragic dead from disease that could've been prevented if he was just transported to a better, more specialized facility?
Keiko's story is a story of how activists' agenda is once again pushed down everyone throat, even the animal's, and ends in nothing but pain, death and suffering that could've been prevented if they would've listened to actual experts. Those experts who warned them he couldn't swim free, that he wasn't ready, that wild pods would reject him. It's disgusting how the mainstream media tries to romanticize this story into something good.
You have to be blind to not see what's wrong with this. Trying to make an orca wild again, yet keep playing with it in the water like a big puppy? Keep asking him to do tricks over and over again. These people just wanted their 15 minutes of fame, and they got it, on the huge cost of this beautiful animal's life. At a specialized facility, he would probably have been alive today.
He starved in the wild? Yet lived 5 years? Yes he may have lived longer in the facility...but you have to question his quality of life. I do agree he was very use to humans and released early. However I don’t think the idea of releasing captive animals should be pushed aside. There were many errors.. the tank looked absolutely nothing like the open see, and was still a public display.
If he was transferred to another facility he would have either died or ended the way Tilikum became which was a serial killer whale. To me because he was too attached to humans after being put on display for 20+ years he should have been kept at the sea pen where he was at or should have been transferred to an open sea sanctuary to retire
@@bitchhp2973 He lived in a seapen for 5 years. He lived truly wild for less than a month, which is the time between his 'release' and when he arrived in Norway and was fed by people again. A little timeline:
- 1996: Arrival in Oregon (tank)
- September 9 1998: Arrival in Iceland (seapen)
- Summer 2002: Free in the ocean
- Late summer 2002 (a few weeks later): Arrival in Norway, fishermen started feeding him
- December 12 2003: Keiko, 27yrs, dies in Norway
The only time he was truly free (aka, having to fend for himself) was during the few weeks he travelled from Iceland to Norway.
And as I said, he should've been transferred to a specialized(!) facility, for example SeaWorld. The park in Mexico had no idea what they were doing and he indeed wasn't living a good life there.
@@annetteslife Indeed, a seapen, or stayed in Oregon where they built a 2 million gallon tank for him. He was doing fine and made actual progress in his health until the moment they 'released' him.
@@spacebug30 that is what I had thought because he was moved way too soon or at least waited until OSHA or another foundation was able to set up an open sea sanctuary for him. Like there is a safari like sanctuary in California where two elephants from a Toronto Canada zoo was transferred to retire with other former zoo and circus animals in a more natural open space environment. It was the Bob Barker foundation who had these two elephants transferred from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California. Having Keiko transferred to a sea sanctuary would have been a much smarter transfer or like you had said him stay in that pen in Oregon where he began to thrive. Tilikum on the other hand would have done much better with a full transfer because he didn't become easily attached to humans as Keiko. When Tilikum killed it was his saying I want to go home. To me Tilikum would have been a better candidate for a full transfer back into the wild
#EMPTYTHETANKS
This is a nice interaction between humans and orcas, i wish that all of the captive orcas were helped and released like this
These trainers have great jobs preparing Keiko to be wild not in captivity. I'd pay to see this..
Finally free sea world should watch this
As soon as he was "released", his life became a real nightmare. Kindly shut it.
@Sarah Arshad VIII-C-A that wasn't even my point but ok
Plastic pollution, noise pollution and ship strikes have entered the chat
Free Willy is my most favorite movie I was born in the 90s 90s babies all the way
I saw Keiko in here in Oregon. It was a dream come true
I got to see him in Mexico City when it was still Reino Aventura.
When Lolita's turn to freedeom?
I am so happy to relase keiko in wild
You would.
You can tell that keiko was depressed. Her fin was folded over. Her fin should never be like that. It should be straight up like the orcas at the end in the wild. She may have been getting healthy but she was severely depressed
You can tell Keiko was one of the youngest whales ever taken ! It’s all he remembers is humans!!
How big was Keiko? Was his length longer than Tilikum? He seems a lot lighter to me.
That’s a strange dog
what dog?!?!
Yosia Norna the one in the video swimming
@@mal-be2se ik so strange 😮
Rest in peace keiko
Theyre doing it very wrong. This needs to be done by a team of scientists and experts. Good attempt and happy to see him in the ocean
Yeah obviously. Considering he died a month later.
They had to rush it because their sponsor went bankrupt I believe
It was a year later as far as I read he disappeared for a month but was properly released in the ocean over a year.
@@yaranieuwenhuis9462 yeah he went bankrupt and they had to rush the release and couldn't afford to keep him in the pen either. Sad buy true.
He bloody died not long after his release. Millions of dollars collected from a foundation raising money to have him released back to his natural habitat and he was ignored by the other killer Whales. He ended up alone and died thanks to greed, taking him away from where he was from to make him do unnatural things for a friggin film to make Millions of dollars off of. Also making more money off of him by having him in an enclosed environment doing tricks for the public. These organizations should really be ashamed of themselves for what they did and still do. They should be fined largely for disrupting nature. Banned from it completely.
free willy for ever😢♥️
es una pena que nunca lo logro ya que si fue liberada en mar abierto pero al estar tan acostumbrada a ser alimentada por seres humanos y convivir con ellos se enfermo no pudo aprender a cazar por si misma ni a vivir en libertad
I don't see a link, can you post it
Good for Keiko.
Obviously these animals should not be bred or captured into captivity. Of those that are already in captivity, there are certain individuals who _might_ be good candidates for release. It was painfully obvious that Keiko was not one of them, however. Dogmatic animal rights advocates myopically ensured that Keiko died alone, abandoned, sick, hungry, and heartbroken.
It's sad to know he died but at least he got a chance
If u put him back where u found him,his family will take care of him.
The 2 years he had in the wild were worth 2 decades in a tank.
I only hope that in the future, cetaceans released from captivity fare better thanks to the lessons Keiko taught
My hope for the future is no captive Orcas at all. Boycott Seaworld
Let's face it: They ruined Keikos live.
They kidnapped him as a baby from his mother and took him into a tiny tank.
It's abuse nothing more, nothing less....
How could these people work here knowing these whales were suffering like Keiko 😪
Rip Keiko :(
How did they train him to hold his breath?
He died because he was put back in the sea. No amount of training is going to teach how to integrate with a wild pod
you do realize he had an infection prior to being released that eventually caught up to him. He was doing fine in the wild for FIVE years before dying due to pneumonia (a lung infection).
Get your mind out the gutter. They even proved he was in better health when 'untraining' him, before he could only be underwater for 3 minutes which then changed to 18 minutes. If that's not proof he was getting healthier and adjusting to a better life, then I don't know what else to tell you.
I'm sure keiko has no regrets being let free out of his concrete jungle into the beautiful abyss of natural wonders beneath the ocean.
Stodium, you still can’t integrate a captive whale into a pod of wild whales, just like you can’t integrate a captive lion into a pride. It’s a death sentence period. At least in captive keiko could have gotten vet care.
@Rich Devoll
Yes, he would have received vet care, but he probably would not be as happy as he was in a sea pen or in the ocean. I think that he wasn't the best candidate for release due to his attachment to humans. He should have been kept in a sea sanctuary where he had a good amount of space to swim and dive, and still have help from humans if he needed it.
He was the first ever attempt. Obviously mistakes were to be made.
Rich Devoll The last four whales to die at SeaWorld were killed by the exact infection that killed Keiko despite vet care. Sorry but when a captive orca gets sick, even with vet care, it’s immune system is too weak to survive.
keiko was not accepted by the group of orcas? What was there?
Seeing Keiko’s completely bent too din broke my heart. Trick shows with whales in captivity needs to be banned everywhere.
This is Corky she is the oldest killer whale. And seen in the movie Free Corky. In the movie A smurf helped him go free. Far from her home the waters of busan.
Corky was still in Captive Orca in Seoul aquarium. From SeaWorld San Diego.
Corky will be ready for release to busan oceans where pod of killer whales. And swim to jeju.
the dorsal fin is so flopped damn
Sorry kids Keiko couldn't be released into the wild and was turned into 1.5 million cans of tuna
♥♥♥KEIKO♥♥♥ .....FREE ORCAS!!! :(
1:50 she just stepped on the orcas eye
It’s Siggi
Helping animals train must be fun, although at amusement parks it must be really hard seeing these whales so depressed and all. But this helping captive whales learn to be "wild" again must be 100x better
How? They failed him and he died. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-20m-lessons-of-freeing-keiko-the-whale/
Tess d'Urberville That article literally states that he died of a lung infection. You know who else died of a lung infection? Tilikum, Kasatka, Kyara, and Kayla. And that’s just the past four years.
i feel so bad seeing the floppy dorsals:( if you worked there and say it go from normal to flop wouldnt that break your heart? id hope everyone would go on strike, atleast he was freed, no orcas should be in captivity. any attack on trainer wasnt their fault. they are the most amazing creatures of the world
I wouldn't call Keiko "free." He was never free, all he did was get dumped into the ocean. He didn't hunt, he didn't socialize with other orcas... he just wanted people's company, and that was denied to him.
And floppy dorsals are perfectly normal for captive male orcas and not a sign of stress of bad health at all
@@philorcinus13 wow that is so wrong. The dorsal collapse is only seen as normal because of its commonality in captive male Orcas. It isn't normal, it is due to nutritional deficiencies.
Also Keiko did hunt for himself as he traveled from Iceland to Norway. He also did attempt to socialize with wild pods of Orcas but never integrated sadly. He only sought human interaction because he was trained to rely on humans for affection, food, etc. He also was not denied human interaction when freed it was just interacting in a different way.
He should have perhaps been kept in a Sea Pen as he did crave the human interaction. Either way it was a lot better than him being imprisoned in a tiny concrete tank.
@@WildeMermaid Actually, the dorsal has been seen to stand back up in cases of release. It's just cartilage. The more exercise and colder the waters, the faster it rights itself again. And Keiko was denied affection by humans. They tried to encourage him to stop coming back to humans with the "Turn your Back" policy that was put into place, because he kept coming up to canoes, kayaks, and small boats for attention.
There's a documentary focused solely around Keiko, with footage of him in the sea pen and undergoing more training there. Also, Kiska and Keiko were picked up together. Kiska ended up in Marineland, Canada all by herself, while Keiko was sold to Reno Adventura, Mexico. They're trying to work on a seaside sanctuary in Nova Scotia, Canada, where all entertainment Cetaceans can retire and experience the real ocean once again. Look up kiska and you can find a ton of information on her and the sanctuary.
Kalia will be retired tomorrow for her release back into the wild.
Except he didn't adjust at all, couldn't bond with his pod, and kept getting sick cause he always chased boats
starsan this is actually not true he already had an infection that could not be cured before they even released him
No he didn't, he lived 5 years and suddenly got sick. They only released him because they felt he was healthy
starsan I didn’t mean to start an argument but my mom used to work as a vet at the aquarium in Oregon and she told me that he had a skin infection that he got from the water being to warm when he lived in Mexico and my mom said that her and the other vets estimated that he would only had a few years to live so they figured that him dying in the wild is better then dying in a small tank
Unless your mom was a vet for him, no. That isn't what happened at all. They expected him to live much, much longer. They were all shocked by his sudden death. Watch the documentaries about him after he died, they all state it
starsan like I said I don’t want to argue I’m just believing what my mom said since she used to work there and I don’t think she would lie to me I’m sorry if I made you mad in any way I was just stating what my mom told me.
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.
Какой Кейко был? Он был умным и добрым, и любил людей. Спи спокойно, мой хороший. Ты навсегда останешься в наших сердцах.
Rip keiko
He died lonely and lost on a beach in Norway. At least he was “free” I guess. We should really leave these animals alone and his story should be a cautionary tale to end orca captivity.
Its gonna die other pods might kill they dont know him
Yh u missed out the part where he died after being in the wild
It´s great to see, that his last years were more than a small tank. Does anybody knows if there is another orca who was released back to the freedom?
None as far as I know. So sad to know we still steal them from the ocean.
Jennifer Lamont Omg I have great news for you! Russia has set the quota for orca captures at 0 for two years in a row now. All of the orcas that were illegally captured in the Whale Jail in 2018 have since been released. Russia was the last nation on Earth which permitted the capture of killer whales, which means it is now illegal to capture or kill an orca in all nations.
Not that I am aware of but many have been & are fighting for Miami Seaquarium to retire Lolita/Tokitae & return her to the Salish Sea where a Sea Pen is waiting. She was captured 51yrs ago in Puget Sound. She hasn't seen another Orca or Whale since 1980. Her mother & pod are still alive & in that area so she could possibly be reunited with them. . . if only we could get her released.
They're working on getting Lolita freed, but haven't made much progress until she was discovered to be incredibly ill. It seems like they're only willing to release them (for good company image) when they know they're really sick and probably won't make it.
@@itsikabitch9005 I had no idea that it's now illegal everywhere. Thanks for teaching me something new, Ika.
I was lucky to be there on a day there was no crowd and they were just teaching him how to hunt for salmon that were already stunned or dead. I wish the aquarium in Newport had left his tank to rehabilitate more large sea mammals.
Scott Farner Yes, Lolita might have enjoyed living there instead of sharks and rays.
@@tessdurberville711 Miami Seaquarium would NEVER have moved Lolita without legal intervention. Good god girl get a grip.
Whether he went free or stayed in Oregon, either way he couldn't stay in Mexico, his health was deteriorating to the point his kidneys were on the verge of failure.
I didn't know that Keiko the whale from the Free Willy films died I was sad I was a child when I watched the Free Willy films rest in peace Keiko 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
poor keiko 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Why does his fin flop ?..
Dorsal collapse is a result of too much time at the surface. His tank in Mexico was incredibly shallow, so he basically got stuck floating at the surface. Without water pressure and with the Mexican sun constantly shining on him, his dorsal fin destabilized and eventually flopped over.
Why was his fin bend ?
TheRonLegend
It is called a collapsed dorsal fin it happens when they are in captivity..... They get unhappy it is sad
Vivian Kint No, Gravity caused that my friend.
BuddyxAmayaedits Gravity mixed with intense heat and lack of water pressure as a result of extensive floating at the surface*
@@itsikabitch9005 yeah they’re from cold waters kept in hot places
@@ecas4315 Essentially yeah
He looked for people because he was hungry and conditioned to.
they should do this for everyone of them and set them all free
Yeah so they can also die from stress induced pneumonia like keiko did after getting beat up by wild orcas.
Keiko never became truly wild.keiko had to be constantly cared for by a crew on a boat that fed him and basicly took him for walks.
@@starandfox601 Keiko was not “beat up,” I’m not even aware of a single record which claims he had any rake marks.
I don't understand why they didn't try and find his family first. One they can't just put him with another pod. Like humans they speak a different languages. They should of recorded his tons and hunted his family. It's awful he did alone. They should never be taken to begin with.
Jamie Dumas When killer whale pods get too big they leave their original pod to form their own or join others
Adult males are the ones that tend to leave to avoid interbreeding
He wouldn't be alone for long (he found a pod), the problem turned out to be that he still preferred the company of humans so he ended up leaving behind the pod to hang arround a town that his pod used to pass by
Gandalf the Tsaagan Adult males are actually the last to leave the pod. They remain by their mothers side until one dies in all known populations. Males are often too subdominant to go off on their own. Mature females with their own calves are usually the only ones who may leave. Even if a male’s mother dies, they will stick with a sister or niece. Genetic diversity comes from superpods rather than pod re-organization.
They didn’t know who his pod was
Keiko died :,(
Very concerned about this. Not because he doesn’t deserve to be free, but because he could’ve picked up diseases that wild orcas in his region aren’t capable of fighting. So... I’m sorry I don’t think captive orcas should be returned to the wild after a 6 month period in captivity.
6 months? Nah nah nah try almost 30 years in captivity for Keiko
@@Aurora-jw3mz thank you for the information. I think they should have left Keiko in that Oregon tank until they were able to find and or build a Sea Sanctuary for him to retire. I think it was kind of a dumb move to have Keiko moved to Iceland because they knew he was that attached to humans.
@@annetteslife it was indeed a bad idea, but like someone else pointed out, the failure of this program was not that he wasn't capable of returning to the wild, but that the humans didn't prepare him well enough. Up until the last year before his release his trainers still went in the water with him. In fact they stunned the fish they put in his tank to 'teach' him to hunt. In the wild, fish aren't stunned. They're fast. And finally, at his age maybe they should have indeed build a sea enclosure that would've gave served of retirement place. Can't imagine how lost he must have been when he found himself all alone in an unknown world.
@@Aurora-jw3mz like you had said it was a combination of things. What excuse my French pissed me off was when he placed in that tank in Oregon he was still put on public display which I thought was odd and a very bad idea because he still had. human interaction. I thought that the whole idea of rescuing Keiko was to not only rehabilitate him but to help him break free from any human contact. like you had said the people helping him had done everything too fast. He basically went from one tank to another instead straight to an open sea sanctuary to live out whatever time he had left
@@annetteslife we can only hope that new programs will be better, but there's still a very little chance of orca's being released in the wild as it is, sadly.
and then one year later he died lonely and scared. But don't tell the kids.
someone that does research! hallelujah!
@Robert 0077 Ten more years? You need to go back to school, you clearly flunked arithmetic.
Tess d'Urberville I mean true but even SeaWorld gave Keiko about 3 months to live given his condition in Mexico. 7 years ain’t bad at all. It might’ve been more if he stayed in the sea pen, but Reino Aventura was certainly not suitable for him.
An Orca in the 27 club....that's sad!