Captive Orca Update

I had a long post written up about the Captive orcas and what has happened with them in the last couple of months but than my Computer crashed!!! Anyway, this post will be shorter, if you haven't already heard about the chaos Sea World has been in lately, I have some articles below! Two more deaths followed Taima's, I posted about her's back in June. In early September, Taima's first calf, Sumar died mysteriously at Sea World in San Diego and more recently, in early October Kalina died unexpectedly in Orlando. As well as deaths, there have been two births. Katina, Kalina's mother, gave birth to her seventh calf last Saturday and trainers say that they won't be able to determine the sex for a while. The father of the calf is Tilikum, the whale that attacked and killed a trainer in February and I am sure EVERYONE has heard about that. The poor guy is living a terrible life right now :( He belongs in the WILD! Moving on... the second calf was born last week a couple of days after Katina's was born. At just 8 years old (I know, scary, when wild orcas usually have their first calves between 13 to even 20 years!) Kohana delivered her first calf at Loro Parque; a little boy. It's not a surprise that Kohana seems to be rejecting her calf and that he has to be handfed. In the wild, first time moms have mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins and other female family members to help them out, but when you are an 8 year, who was seperated from her mother at a young age, living with no adult females, it's not surprise that Kohana probably didn't know what to do. Oh and I almost forgot that a young female orca was "rescued" and brought to a Dolfinarium in June. FREE MORGAN!!
Okay! Time for the articles!
http://orcahome.de/orcanews.htm - This website is loaded with info on captive orcas, they keep track of the numbers of alive and deceased whales with pages for every whale! The linked page has all the 2010 news.
http://orcahome.de/orcanews.htm - Renowned Travel Writer Apologizes For Past Support of SeaWorld
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/23/seaworld.fine/?hpt=T2 - YES! SeaWorld fined $75,000 for safety violations
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/orca+slave+born+Aren+happy/3684150/story.html - A little bit about Katina and her calf as well as recent deaths
http://www.zooborns.typepad.com/zooborns/whale/ - Some info and pictures of the new Captive calves
Any how! I will get more articles later!