This year’s Treaty Day Film Festival offers the first local chance to see “Resident Orca,” the documentary that follows the ...
Five decades ago, a 4-year-old orca was captured in Penn Cove and sold to the Miami Seaquarium, where she received the name “Lolita.” She performed about twice daily until 2022, then remained at the ...
She couldn’t nurse her young because “she just didn’t know how,” says Morton in The Nature of Things documentary Listening to Orcas. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers their entire ...
Tahlequah, a mother orca who gained fame in 2018 for carrying her deceased calf on her back, has lost another child — and heartbreaking photos and video show her again continuing to carry her dead ...
A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving ...
These regulations ban the use of dolphins and whales in performances, which traditionally accounted for 90% of the park’s ...
In 2013, the documentary Blackfish detailed how an orca called Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau after a show at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010. He grabbed her and dragged her into the water where he ...