Mar 3, 2006

Skeet Skeet On Stupid Humans














Kalina is a killer whale (orca) born on September 26, 1985 at SeaWorld Orlando, Florida. Although 20 killer whale calves had been born in the past in captivity, she was the first to survive more than a few days. Kalina's mother is an Icelandic female named Katina, while her father, Winston (also known as Ramu III) was a Pacific Southern Resident, making Kalina an Atlantic/Pacific hybrid - a unique situation that would not have occurred in the wild. In February 1990, Kalina was moved from Orlando to the SeaWorld Aurora, in Ohio. She was moved again in October of that year to SeaWorld California and again in May 1991 to SeaWorld San Antonio. It was in SeaWorld San Antonio that she gave birth to her first calf, a male named Keet, on February 2, 1993. Kalina was only seven years old at the time of Keet's birth - an extremely young age for an orca to become a mother. Kalina became pregnant once again shortly after Keet's birth, and was moved back to SeaWorld Orlando on October 1994, where she gave birth to her second calf, another male, Keto on June 17, 1995. Kalina became pregnant for a third time, but unfortunately on February 27, 1997, she delivered a stillborn calf. She gave birth to another male, Tuar, on June 22, 1999. Finally, Kalina bore her fourth calf and first daughter, on February 9, 2004. The calf was named Skyla. Kalina became the first captive-born orca grandmother with the birth of Keet's daughter, Kalia, on December 21, 2004. Kalina is an extremely gentle whale and does water work with trainers. She is very intelligent and learns quickly. Kalina is used a lot in shows because she cooperates so well and learns behaviors so easily. She currently lives at SeaWorld Orlando with nine other killer whales, including her mother, two half-brothers and her daughter Skyla. Kalina measures 17 feet, 9 inches and weighs 6,300 pounds.

Who gave us the rights to all the other mammals? I love Japan and Norway both, but I'd like to see all their whaling vessels sunk with crews aboard(every funding backer too, governmental or non), and every last SeaWorld blown into fiberglass shards, that the trainers have to walk over barefoot, on their way out to the parking lots.

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