After moving to the aquarium, Kshamnek lived with a second orca named Belen. The pair hit it off until Belen died in 2000 after issues while giving birth, leaving the killer whale mostly alone for ...

The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen to ...

"Killer whales are highly social animals ... venture with state-owned leisure developer Miral and boasts the largest aquarium in the world. There aren't any orcas on show here but, to the dismay ...

“It’s devastating to see her go through this,” said Shawn Larson, a senior conservation research manager at the Seattle Aquarium who ... in southern resident killer whales’ feces, Wasser ...

Two Icelandic killer whales – Wikie, 23 (incidentally ... Initially, managers at the former park favoured sending the orcas to an aquarium in Japan, but were stopped from doing so because ...

Wildlife biologist Brad Hanson was worried about the orca calf the first time he saw her. The calf, born into a pod of endangered southern resident killer whales that live off the coast of B.C., ...

But the loss of J61, Tahlequah’s calf, is particularly hard. “The death of any calf in the (southern resident killer whales) population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is ...

The law does not change the regulations around approaching healthier populations such as Bigg’s killer whales, humpback whales, gray whales or any other whale species in the area. Seattle Times ...