Keiko's Last Days - December 12, 2003 | KATU In The Archives 

Male orcas are typically fed by their mothers even into adulthood, so without his family he needed a surrogate feeder.

My phone case has a pick of a orca with his name to honor him

I can’t believe he died at just 27 😢 I didn’t even know ! I expected him to live much longer ❤

Its a dolphin not a whale.

instead, he died alone.

@@meh8712 am this still breaks my mf heart Mann! I can’t !!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢

What You Mean Keiko has Joined the 27 Club?

@@nicolaschandler5227 happens to be a age at which a lot of famous or influential people die

Like who?

​@@priscilla5533Janice Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Whinehouse, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison... If you are a younger person, you may not know all of them...

No, actually I do know who each of them are. Was just curious as to whom you were talking about .. that’s pretty crazy though

thank u jc

it would have died sooner out of captivity... the wild is the called the wild for a reason...

​@simmzzzz how when in the wild they live up to 100 and eat better food such as seals and shark liver instead of small stale fish. Do your research

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​@simmzzzz that is where you're completely wrong. Usually that's the case, but not with whales like orcas. They die a lot sooner in captivity.

Well, Keiko learned to love people more because he spent his whole life around them.. So he always returned to humans because he saw them as his "pod"..

His life got better. He would have died long before 2003 if he had stayed in Mexico.

How do you know? You are projecting your female/human emotions on an animal. The truth is you have no clue how he felt and are just assumptous in a really pessimistic way. Maybe he had fun being with humans, maybe he had fun experiencing all these kind of things, getting free food from humans and playing with them and had an interesting life.

thanks ls

@@dregga7638 Honey, he was underweight, malnourished and covered in a skin virus when he was in Mexico. You can see the horrible condition he was in even in the MOVIE that he was in while he was living in Mexico. His health improved drastically when he was moved to Oregon. You don't have to project any emotion to use your eyeballs.

@@sepnyte9422 You're reducing its entire life on its last few weeks of life. You then assume that because he looked like that he must have had "anything but a good life". With that logic most people and animals have "anything but a good life" cause most people look skinny and weak at the end of their lives. So right "honey", you use your eyes but you don't process what you see critically and instead stop closeminded at superficial assumptions that "feel" right.

I’m sure he’s in a better place now with his family

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Not for the animals…

I don’t get what is wrong with humans ! It’s like they are dumb ! If he kept on getting rejected it means he was in danger being alone and no one helped !!!

@@lynahiacampbell8232 the problem is that they really felt he deserved to be with a family, unfortunately the damage had already been done and no pod of orcas were probably going to accept an outsider no matter how similar keiko might have been. They eventually had to accept this and just ended up giving keiko a large are of free eaters where she had as much freedom as possible, but where they could still check up on keiko

@@thegaminglion90 the captivity of orcas breaks my heart ! I wanted nothing but Lolita to be freed and now she has passed ! It’s heartbreaking and I’ve cried so much ! It’s evil what humans have done and I’m sick and tired of this !

@@lynahiacampbell8232 tbh, we should be making more freer closed environments that keiko eventually ended up with, if we just have to intervene and save endangered animals like killer whales. Places like sea world aren’t the way. I understand people want to see animals up close, but at the same time making them perform for sport doesn’t feel ethical.

@@thegaminglion90 I agree

they all should be

@@luigi7834 amen

Keiko struggled to survive after he was let go. He couldn't mate with others, and he sought human interaction after being let go, since he found it comforting

Fact: *Seaworld still dosen't free it's orcas.*

When Captive creatures get set into the wild they catch diseases faster and easily plus they struggle to survive cause they aren’t used to having to hunt and used to humans

He was not, he still depended on humans to be fed. After his capture, he was never free again.

@@andresfuentes16he did have wide open range though

Not so fun fact, but you’re correct about the floppy fin.

@@TheOtherBoleynGirl336 good point idk why I call it fun fact

Not true. The dorsal fin is made of collagen. Even happy people's skin loosens with age. Search Port and Starboard Wild Orcas. It happens in the ocean too.

Amen 🙏

I feel greatful that I got the chance to meet him in person when I was a kid at the Oregon coast aquarium. Still very saddening to this day. They are right the ones that were able to see him in person did have a personal connection and makes losing him that much more personal but he will never be forgotten and will always be a nostalgic icon.

@@twitch4227yes, be grateful 😪 because of people like you there are animals in captivity… if no one would go see them they could live in freedom.

There are so many liey surrounding Keiko. I am very careful what to believe and what not!! Keiko was a huge thret to the whole industry!! And when he shiwed up in Norway Sea World immeadtly asked the Norweigian goverment for a permit to catch him!!! That is a huge red flag for me and a fes days later he died, he was given antibiotic's and nobody really know's why he died!! Than the other side (the real sientist's who are against captivity)- I do not believe they would lie, but they are also "sweet talking" tge situation. I do not know what to believe, bug it does not matter now. There are sucsessfully rehabilitaded dolphin's tbrough sea pen's with human care, which are now in the wild. Wzy should this not work for orca's?? The plan, everything is ready but the marineland's keep them alone untill they die before letting one of them go and they all die at max half of their lifespan a terrible death. Why not give them a chance to swimm in a seapen with human care???

Big sea animals struggle in human captivity. Great White Sharks always die when they are in human captivity. They do not belong there.

He should've stayed in Iceland.

He didnt know how to survive without Human interaction, this has been and will be a problem with every whale that has been attempted to be freed, ( I believe there was oone other a long time ago) and everyone they try to free. Im said Kiska passed but she would never have survived had they set her free either. Lolita and the other one they want to will be the samething.

​@@horse-lover68 Miami Seaquarium applied for the permit, not SeaWorld. SeaWorld would not take him when they were looking for a place to move him from Mexico, because of the papillomavirus.

That’s bullshit. They cared for him till the end. There is much more to this story than these 6min.. Also, better die in freedom than live in a cage.

​@@sabsinoname Tell that to people who do not have homes and stray and wild animals who would rather have creature comforts than be "free".

I think it was costed way too much for this theory. They spent more money on “freeing” Keiko than Free Willy.

This needs to be pinned

@@cosettetucker6472 they say.

​@@cristinamiacatio1031 The failed Keiko project cost $20m. His state of the art tank in Oregon only cost $7m. The only reason they "freed" Keiko, is because the billionaire funding the project was caught cheating on his wife and withdrew his support, so Keiko was abandoned in Norway.

What?

Keiko had 5 happy and healthy year's!! This is BS!! Keiko hunted, he was month's with other orca's. Of course the industry say's it was a failure, IT WAS NOT. In Mexico he would have died in a few month, so he got healthier and happy. The problem is that they never found his real family, because SW pulled the young orca's out of the ocean without even thinking about from where they were. Was Keiko's family really from Iceland or are they Norweigan orca's and that is why he showed up there, but when he saw human's, he got destracted again. Interesting is: the moment Keiko showed up in Norway, SeaWorld asked the Norweigan government for a permit to catch him and put him back in captivity. Thank God the government said No and than suddenly he died. What a coinsidence??

​@@horse-lover68 SeaWorld never owned Keiko, nor did they apply for a permit to catch him. That was Miami Seaquarium. After Iceland, Keiko only lived at Marineland Canada, Reino Aventura and Oregon Coast Aquarium.

glad u got ur thrills at thr expensive of an animmals life shame on u

È perchè portano i bambini a vedere certi spettacoli che gli animali saranno incarcerati a vita!!!!

It was a birth defect that couldn't be fixed.

It happens in captivity they do not know why and once it's like that it will never fix itself unfortunately

​@@ashleylynn2701There are orcas in the wild with the same condition. Search- Port and Starboard Wild Orcas. There is one in the Loro Parque Gibraltar video as well.

He lived in Oregon for 3 years between Mexico and Iceland. While he was still in Mexico, Warner Bros. had paid to have a cooling system installed in his pool.

That is not how pneumonia manifests.

He didn't.

No.

So do homeless people and stray animals. "Freedom" is not for everyone.

Do you think his mom is still alive? I would think much like Stripe after Corky's capture she at least gave Keiko sibling(s) at least. It's possible he already had siblings if he wasn't the the first born.

@@selenaali1999 They did not find Keiko's family, sadly!!! They could have passed through the waters of Iceland like transient's do. And I am not so good at ecotypes but I think Keiko was a transient, but he learned how to eat fish not mammals',s, maybe that was the problem?? The sientist's know so much more today, we cannot compare Keiko with other orca's like Lolita.- her mother is still alive and I pray that they let her go in this seabay with human care as fast as possible. 8n captivity the animals all due at 1/3, 9f their lifespan, but they are still lying and thinking they are the best. It is a cult. Everybody who has read John Hargroves book understand's how these people are thinking-, it's like sientology and the government should stop this. Because 8f the animals and the people!!

@@horse-lover68 I know that they didn't and I believe he was a northern resident or Icelandic which both does eat fish. Was just asking if there's a possibility of his mom being alive. Who knows, she might be.

@@selenaali1999 Yes she might be like Lolita's!! But if he was a Southern resident why would they bring him to Iceland?? Anyway they pulled the orca's out if the 9cean and did not care from where they were coming from. I think you are right, when his family was really around Iceland and Norway these orca's are fisheater 's- heringrun. But nobody could be absolute sure, Keiko was handfestes fish, so they were happy to learn him to hunt fish. For mammal's he would need a pod and I don''t believe that somebody can untrain an orca from captivity to a mammal eater again, nit after 20 year's. But I don','t know, I am no expert.

@@horse-lover68 Neither am I.

Who would play him? I wonder if Walt Conti still has that servohydraulic orca model 🤔.

thanks dear

Fun fact: orcas are dolphins. The name killer whales was originally killer of whales. Funny how important the little words are. The difference between whale and dolphin is the position of the dorsal fin.

⁠​⁠@@dougaltolan3017yeah but dolphins are whales!? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@sabsinoname yup kinda. Dolphins are toothed whales, as opposed to baleen whales. So orcas are dolphins, which are whales...

Although I completely agree with you, animal rights activists aren’t “rabid”. Caring for living creatures is the ultimate act of kindness. True Christians understand this - not the phony mega church ilk.

Keiko never lived at SeaWorld.

@@tessdurberville711 Irrelevant! No animal should EVER live at SeaWorld!!!

He lived in Oregon for 3 years between Mexico and Iceland.

60/100/1000. You anti-caps cannot even agree on that.

He was taken from the wild sometime between 1979 and 1981. The film was not made until 1992.

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It would be the best for them if SW would let them go into a sea pen with human care, a medical pool and so on. Most of them are hybrid's who will never be accepted by the pod's. Keiko was on his own when he was away over one year and he did not deoend on human's as food suply. Anyway, this seapen would be run by the best orca specialist's worldwide. The animals could fee! the ocean again and have a whole pen to move and come into shape again, but "surprise"- SW and other marinelqnd's will not let them go. Lolita was left alone in a hurricane, but they are telling us over and over the sqms BS. Dolphin's are beinb sucsssfully released from sea pens since year's and orca's are only big dolphin's. Why do you want to kill them at half of their lifespan by letting them in these tanks???

@@horse-lover68 Keiko died and went back to humans. He dumped his POD. Just goes to show that like humans can change and adjust to to their habitats they are able too. The case with Lolita is different she is being abused. She needs a sanctuary. The animals bred in captivity should stay in captivity because it’s all they know.

@@claudiacorona6670 NO they should be brought to sanctuaries, where they can spend their life in a seabay with human care, with vetcare, with everything they have in these shady tanks, but they can explore a whole bay, swimm, make their own desition's where they want to be (with the humans on the inside or at the end of the bay). They are building a rescue center NOW in a seabay near Washington. They have inside pool's, quarantine pool's, everything. And they could not release most of them anyway because SW mixed the ecotypes. The animals born there do not exist 8n their natural habitat, they are cross bred animals which do not exist. SW was so busy breeding them and killing almost all their orca cow's with that breeding program, they could not wait untill the other sientist's found out and proved that there are ecotypeswith different languages and different social structures. Animals who are self aware and have a higher intelligence than human's (when you compare the brain's) cannot be in tanks!! These sientist's worked their whole life with whales and dolphins, they know more about them.SW only knows how to keep them alive and they ALL died at 1/3 of their natural lifespan. So sorry, NO not one day more. As soon as they have a place in a sanctuary, they have to go. I learned a lot in the last year about SW and the industry, believe me they are criminal's!! If you don't know Peter Hargrove's book "Beneath the surface", please read it. He was the supervisor (=highest rank) in SW and got the whistleblower for blackfish BECAUSE he still loves the orca's so much!! No efence p!ease!!! I only get a little emotional when it comes to the captivity industry!!!🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

​@@claudiacorona6670it wasn't HIS POD. It was a random POD. They were hoping the POD would accept him they never did. Everything I have seen on the subject says he never got within 100 yards of the pods he came in contact with. Orcas don't work like that. They live exclusively with their mothers and grandmother's. Males can drop in for mating but that's it. And with that flipped over fin and health issues he probably wasn't seen as a good candidate for a mate even. His existence was every bit as sad as Lolitas.

⁠@@claudiacorona6670 it’s sad there are really people out there thinking like you 😪 where would you choose to be? In a pot without stones, plants, other animals? They have echolocation and in such a pot is nothing to locate the whole time, it’s pure boredom… whale sanctuary’s are the future I hope! But I’m against most animals in captivity.