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Yesterday Stella was transferred from Port of Nagoya to Kobe Suma. She was separated from her calf Lynn and grandson Earth who remain at Nagoya. She is currently alone at Kobe, but it is believed that at least one whale from Kamogawa will join here in the coming days.
Kobe will be opening on May 30th.
It's Time to Name Baby L-127!
You can now vote in the naming contest for L-127. After receiving a name, she will be available in the Orca Adoption Program.
The choices are;
Cordelia (daughter of the sea in Greek mythology)
Alcyone (Name of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s 2nd research boat, which partially used wind as an energy source for the motors)
Scuba (in collaboration with Emile Gagnan and Cousteau’s wife, Simone, the first Aqua Lung, or dive regulator, was born).
Vote for your favourite name by emailing oap@whalemuseum.org. Voting ends on November 29th, 2023.
L-127 has been named Scuba. You can adopt them here.
The official names of all twelve of Chimelong’s orcas are:
Tyson
Nukka
Bandhu
Chad
Kaixin
Katenka
Nakhod
Jade
Sonya
Yilong
Loki
Katniss
It's Time to Name Baby L-127!
You can now vote in the naming contest for L-127. After receiving a name, she will be available in the Orca Adoption Program.
The choices are;
Cordelia (daughter of the sea in Greek mythology)
Alcyone (Name of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s 2nd research boat, which partially used wind as an energy source for the motors)
Scuba (in collaboration with Emile Gagnan and Cousteau’s wife, Simone, the first Aqua Lung, or dive regulator, was born).
Vote for your favourite name by emailing oap@whalemuseum.org. Voting ends on November 29th, 2023.
L-126 / Ken
The first offspring of Joy / L-119, born in June this year, has been named Ken, in honor of the late Ken Balcomb, founder of the Center for Whale Research.
The killer whale tanks at Kobe Suma Sea World, Japan are nearing completion, ready for the parks opening early in the new year. Fish and sharks are already being moved in.
It will be stocked with a mix of whales from Kamogawa Sea World and Marineland France. Exactly which whales isn't yet known.
Moana, a 12 year old male orca, died at Marineland, Antibes on Tuesday night.
Naya/Juliet at Moskvarium is pregnant and due in December. The father is Nord who died recently.
Apparently, back in July, Kamogawa SeaWorld said that Lovey is pregnant again with her third calf (both Kamogawa and Port of Nagoya have talked about it during shows but have made no official post online yet).
I must have missed the announcement at the time, but I haven't seen many other people mention it either, so I thought I would post it.
The pregnancy is the result of the artificial insemination exchange program with Chimelong in China, as Kamogawa don't have any male orca, so the calf will be a Russian transient / Icelandic hybrid.
Apparently Lara was also inseminated, but there was no mention of her being pregnant as well.
The announcement was made before the news that Marineland France had sold their whales to Japan, but I can't imagine Kamogawa wanting to jeopardise the pregnancy by bringing in more whales???
Tokitae's ashes were returned home to Washington on Wednesday, according to the Lummi Nation.
They will spread her ashes in a private traditional water ceremony. A public celebration will be announced at a later date
Feeling some kind of way about Tokitae's death, and watching Li'i be ignored like some kind of acceptable collateral damage... No. Not having it.
Public trial operations of Chimelong Spaceship begin September 16, 2023.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/waPzQTz1OnHFSdkgMcKp7w
Whats going on with that whale at the fronts lower jaw?
the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.
fyi falcons are not closely related to other birds of prey (hawks/eagles/buzzards). falcons are actually parrots that minmaxed for a glass cannon dps build.
assault parrots, if you will
@bimbosofficial i made this meme over 10 years ago to remember that exact moment at the charleston aquarium when a mother very confidently said this exact thing to her son
“Observing the birds in the penguin exhibit one day, a woman ran up, exclaiming to her family, “look at all the baby killer whales”.
- From the keeper / trainer letters page of the 1990 IMATA Soundings issue.
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These dams aren't even clean energy! Their reservoirs emit huge amounts of methane, which contributes to the climate crisis. Please help spread this if you can, and join in. We have a real chance here to get this done - so let's do it.
As the late and great Ken Balcomb said: "We're at a point in history where we need to wake up to what we have to consider: do we want whales, or not?"
He never stopped fighting for the Southern Residents, and neither should we.
In more positive news - there’s a new L pod calf!.
Seen with the L77 matriline on June 19th off Tofino. This new calf appears to be over three weeks old. Still unsure who the mother is.
Update; TWO NEW CALVES!
One is the third calf for L94/Calypso, and the other is first calf for her niece L119/Joy.
No wonder they were confused over who the mother was - there were two calves, lol.
