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A new study came out from 2022 involving Keto, Tekoa, Morgan, Adan, and Kohanah. This study involved the weight of the animals, where Keto, Morgan, and Kohanah (grown whales) all lost weight from 200 to 500 lbs (info from the study and Killer Whale Wiki). The only whales to not lose weight were Adán, who at the time was just starting to hit growth spurts, and Tekoa, who is unfortunately well known for always being underweight (he gained 600 lbs).

Link to study: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1095643326000280

Overall, the study was very interesting, especially considering what it was discussing and the birth of Teno a while later (Study ended 2023).

You can pick any orca to magically come back to life with no change to the past (after their death), place them in any park of your choice, and they have no memory/side affect of their death (ex, you pick Katina and now she doesn’t have said health issues).

I personally would bring back Halyn and place her with Keet, although I have little evidence, I do believe that Keet was heavily impacted by her death. He cared about her a lot, and he was her whole world.

Or I would bring back Sumar and place him with either Malia or Tekoa so at least two of Taima’s kids can actually meet each other, and have family for support considering Tekoa’s and Malia’s outlashes towards trainers.

I was watching more light up the night clips when I saw this one. They had barriers up with Malia and the comments say that apparently Malia broke a trainers arm during a desensitization training session. I know about the one back in 2022 (trainers fault), but why in the heck would SeaWorld replace barriers with her after 4 years? They didn’t do it when it happened.

Did the ”second” incident actually happen? I can’t find a singular news source saying so, and I thought they also used the barriers with other orcas? Or is this person just trying to make drama?

This is the only one I’ve seen, so I’m not sure if they maybe started it earlier or not, still a cool video nonetheless

I love them and if it helps convince you I own ducks irl and intern at my local nature center for ducks :D

On top of this, there are apparently rumors that Nukka is pregnant. Which I will say she does look a bit round right now, that is if I didn’t mix Sonya and Nukka up lol

Back to Pearl, I can’t believe she’s already 3 months old, she’s such a gorgeous lil’ baby <3

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV_uRi3jDUI/

All credit goes to the original owner :D

I’ve been looking for videos of Tekoa on YouTube but all the ones I’m finding are a year old or older, and anything recent is just the same clip of him or doesn’t even have video of him.

Does anyone have videos of him that are more recent?? Ty

As the title says I’m making a cardboard Tekoa for my wall but I made his dorsal fin straight. Is it weird to do that considering he’s captive? I

I wanted to make his dorsal straight because of personal reasons but it hit me that it may be weird to do so :/

I’ll post photos once it’s done (probably later tonight)