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- Keiko, a whale made famous by the Free Willy movies, died in the waters of Norway on December 21, 2003.
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Keiko was never wild again, but he was in a position where he could come and go as he pleased and he was still receiving human care.
Male orcas are typically fed by their mothers even into adulthood, so without his family he needed a surrogate feeder.
20 years already..damn. RIP Keiko. Thanks for the childhood memories
His life in captivity and short time free still makes me tear up 😢
Poor Keiko… he was kidnapped when he was young, and then lived most of his life in a “big” pool. At least he was brought back to the wild for his final years. R.I.P Keiko ❤
Glad he didn't die in a tank. This whale changed hearts and minds. What a legacy. Thank you, Keiko! ❤ RIP
My phone case has a pick of a orca with his name to honor him
I can’t believe he died at just 27 😢 I didn’t even know ! I expected him to live much longer ❤
Its a dolphin not a whale.
instead, he died alone.
@@meh8712 am this still breaks my mf heart Mann! I can’t !!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Just like all the legends Keiko has joined the 27 club. RIP Keiko, you will be missed. 💕 🕊
What You Mean Keiko has Joined the 27 Club?
@@nicolaschandler5227 happens to be a age at which a lot of famous or influential people die
Like who?
@@priscilla5533Janice Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Whinehouse, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison... If you are a younger person, you may not know all of them...
No, actually I do know who each of them are. Was just curious as to whom you were talking about .. that’s pretty crazy though
Damn, I was only 9 days old when Keiko died. Poor fella. I’m glad that, at the very least, his last days were spent free and not in a tiny pen.
Please never capture a whale or any kind of animal like this again … unbelievably sad !
thank u jc
it would have died sooner out of captivity... the wild is the called the wild for a reason...
@simmzzzz how when in the wild they live up to 100 and eat better food such as seals and shark liver instead of small stale fish. Do your research
Sadly there is a huge market in china 😔 rising…
@simmzzzz that is where you're completely wrong. Usually that's the case, but not with whales like orcas. They die a lot sooner in captivity.
thanks for all who did the work to at least get him back home
I never knew that is what happened to him. I'm crying. It's so sad he was rejected by his own kind and it seems all he wanted was to be in a family like himself. People are disgusting and should have learned from this...
Well, Keiko learned to love people more because he spent his whole life around them.. So he always returned to humans because he saw them as his "pod"..
Keiko would have lived longer if he wasn’t in captivity in the first place . Firmly believe no orcas should be in captivity. 😢😢
"he had a really good life" 🙄🙄🥴he had a miserable tortured life
I wish I could've really invested and got to see Keiko..
Rest in piece Keiko..
Hello. Are u interested in investing?contact me
That woman saying he had a very good life 😂
I guess she never really knew the truth or just decided to turn a blind eye because his life was anything but a good life!
His life got better. He would have died long before 2003 if he had stayed in Mexico.
How do you know? You are projecting your female/human emotions on an animal. The truth is you have no clue how he felt and are just assumptous in a really pessimistic way. Maybe he had fun being with humans, maybe he had fun experiencing all these kind of things, getting free food from humans and playing with them and had an interesting life.
thanks ls
@@dregga7638 Honey, he was underweight, malnourished and covered in a skin virus when he was in Mexico. You can see the horrible condition he was in even in the MOVIE that he was in while he was living in Mexico. His health improved drastically when he was moved to Oregon. You don't have to project any emotion to use your eyeballs.
@@sepnyte9422 You're reducing its entire life on its last few weeks of life. You then assume that because he looked like that he must have had "anything but a good life". With that logic most people and animals have "anything but a good life" cause most people look skinny and weak at the end of their lives.
So right "honey", you use your eyes but you don't process what you see critically and instead stop closeminded at superficial assumptions that "feel" right.
Keiko was huge on my life growing up. I used to love going to see him before I learned how wrong it was to take Orcas from ocean. Even when they remodeled the aquarium me and my mom and younger brother got to stay the night in tunnels of aquarium from school program. Golden days back than
Not for the animals…
its a damn shame...from what i learned, they tried to regroup him with what they believed were either his original pod, or pods similar to his based off sound frequency....but no matter how many times they did it....he would later be found all alone....guess he kept getting rejected, they shouldve seen the writing on the walls since apparently he had a history of being bullied by other killer whales in the past....but at least in his final days he could roam freely in such a vast space...
I don’t get what is wrong with humans ! It’s like they are dumb ! If he kept on getting rejected it means he was in danger being alone and no one helped !!!
@@lynahiacampbell8232 the problem is that they really felt he deserved to be with a family, unfortunately the damage had already been done and no pod of orcas were probably going to accept an outsider no matter how similar keiko might have been. They eventually had to accept this and just ended up giving keiko a large are of free eaters where she had as much freedom as possible, but where they could still check up on keiko
@@thegaminglion90 the captivity of orcas breaks my heart ! I wanted nothing but Lolita to be freed and now she has passed ! It’s heartbreaking and I’ve cried so much ! It’s evil what humans have done and I’m sick and tired of this !
@@lynahiacampbell8232 tbh, we should be making more freer closed environments that keiko eventually ended up with, if we just have to intervene and save endangered animals like killer whales. Places like sea world aren’t the way. I understand people want to see animals up close, but at the same time making them perform for sport doesn’t feel ethical.
@@thegaminglion90 I agree
I love you Keiko🐳. You will be remembered forever. I know you are in heaven now. Rest in Peace🐳🌈🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💝💝💝🕊🕊🕊
I’m sure he’s in a better place now with his family
Please continue to post more news videos of Keiko. I look forward to seeing more because it brings back old memories and helps me learn more about what he went thru to get to the wild. Please like I ask please post more news videos of his so I can learn more and others can learn more about him.
Have to imagine floating around on the surface all day in the cold didn’t do much to help him stay healthy.
That whale should have been left in the wild
they all should be
@@luigi7834 amen
Keiko struggled to survive after he was let go. He couldn't mate with others, and he sought human interaction after being let go, since he found it comforting
Fact: *Seaworld still dosen't free it's orcas.*
When Captive creatures get set into the wild they catch diseases faster and easily plus they struggle to survive cause they aren’t used to having to hunt and used to humans
I love you, Keiko the Orca! 😭😭😭😭😭
Freeing him was the best thing for him. He was free, that was the least we owed him after keeping him in prison for do long.
He was not, he still depended on humans to be fed. After his capture, he was never free again.
@@andresfuentes16he did have wide open range though
Omg…. This is so heartbreaking!!!!
R.I.P. Keiko
Fun fact: when an orca or dolphin’s fin is floppy like on one side, it means they are depressed….
That’s terrible 😢
Not so fun fact, but you’re correct about the floppy fin.
@@TheOtherBoleynGirl336 good point idk why I call it fun fact
Not true. The dorsal fin is made of collagen. Even happy people's skin loosens with age. Search Port and Starboard Wild Orcas. It happens in the ocean too.
Love you Keiko wish I could have met you🙃😞
I feel greatful that I got the chance to meet him in person when I was a kid at the Oregon coast aquarium. Still very saddening to this day. They are right the ones that were able to see him in person did have a personal connection and makes losing him that much more personal but he will never be forgotten and will always be a nostalgic icon.
@@twitch4227yes, be grateful 😪 because of people like you there are animals in captivity… if no one would go see them they could live in freedom.
This animal are stressed every time they moved from one place to other,STOP bother them,let them finaly alone,STOP going to Aquariums,STOP buying tickets,Aquariums have to close one by one
Amen 🙏
This was a year before I started kindergarten! Crazy how much time has passed
As much as I think that he should have never been captured at all they should have left him here in Oregon. I understand that they were trying to return him back in the wild but he was thriving and becoming very healthy. When they took him to Iceland I had a feeling he wasn't going to live much longer. And seeing stories where he would find human contact should have been their first sign. He was never made to perform as previously. He just enjoyed his really big pool. Rest In Peace Keiko
There are so many liey surrounding Keiko. I am very careful what to believe and what not!! Keiko was a huge thret to the whole industry!! And when he shiwed up in Norway Sea World immeadtly asked the Norweigian goverment for a permit to catch him!!! That is a huge red flag for me and a fes days later he died, he was given antibiotic's and nobody really know's why he died!!
Than the other side (the real sientist's who are against captivity)- I do not believe they would lie, but they are also "sweet talking" tge situation. I do not know what to believe, bug it does not matter now.
There are sucsessfully rehabilitaded dolphin's tbrough sea pen's with human care, which are now in the wild. Wzy should this not work for orca's?? The plan, everything is ready but the marineland's keep them alone untill they die before letting one of them go and they all die at max half of their lifespan a terrible death.
Why not give them a chance to swimm in a seapen with human care???
Big sea animals struggle in human captivity. Great White Sharks always die when they are in human captivity. They do not belong there.
He should've stayed in Iceland.
He didnt know how to survive without Human interaction, this has been and will be a problem with every whale that has been attempted to be freed, ( I believe there was oone other a long time ago) and everyone they try to free. Im said Kiska passed but she would never have survived had they set her free either. Lolita and the other one they want to will be the samething.
@@horse-lover68
Miami Seaquarium applied for the permit, not SeaWorld. SeaWorld would not take him when they were looking for a place to move him from Mexico, because of the papillomavirus.
I remember the first time i seen i just know i was very little got to see him 3 times in my life before i could not see him cause my mother moved us so far away but at least i got to see him before we moved when i was 6 i was part of the kieko free willy foundation where you get a necklace from the movie and a whole bunch of whale pics. My dad would tell me how he was doing and i was hart broken when he told me he died i cried myself to sleep. If i was there for his burial i would have been very happy to see him off
So sad
RIP Keiko aka free willy.
Thank you for the childhood memory, Keiko.. 😢
RIP Keiko, 20 years ago part of our childhood died :(
Humans killed him. He should have never been captured. He was born to be free with his family.😢
I love him so much
Saddest story ever...it's like raising a puppy and then throwing him out on the street...such a disgrace..the idea to release him was admirable ..but people must realize you cant undo certain things...poor boy had 5 sad lonely scary years not being part of a pod which is horrible for a social animal. ..he sought out the only comfort he knew after being captive for so long...humans. ..perhaps females who are released fare better since Orcas are a matriarchal society😢
That’s bullshit. They cared for him till the end. There is much more to this story than these 6min.. Also, better die in freedom than live in a cage.
@@sabsinoname Tell that to people who do not have homes and stray and wild animals who would rather have creature comforts than be "free".
Keiko.... you are now finally and TRULY FREE!!!!!!!
Boycott SeaWorld and Zoo's!!!
Ouch😢😢😢😢
My Name Is Gegham Gary Izmirian I Am The Biggest Fan Of Keiko The Orca Whale and I Will Always Be The Biggest Fan Of Keiko The Orca Whale On December 12 2023 Will Be The 20th Anniversary Date Ever Since Keiko The Orca Whale Passed Away and May Keiko The Orca Whale Rest In Peace and May God Rest His Soul and I Am Very Sad About This Heartbreaking Tradgey And I Am Very Happy That Keiko The Orca Whale Is Now Free In Heaven And I Am Very Happy That God Set Keiko The Orca Whale Free In Heaven In Jesus Name Amen 🙏
What?
Keiko had 5 happy and healthy year's!! This is BS!! Keiko hunted, he was month's with other orca's. Of course the industry say's it was a failure, IT WAS NOT. In Mexico he would have died in a few month, so he got healthier and happy. The problem is that they never found his real family, because SW pulled the young orca's out of the ocean without even thinking about from where they were.
Was Keiko's family really from Iceland or are they Norweigan orca's and that is why he showed up there, but when he saw human's, he got destracted again.
Interesting is: the moment Keiko showed up in Norway, SeaWorld asked the Norweigan government for a permit to catch him and put him back in captivity. Thank God the government said No and than suddenly he died. What a coinsidence??
@@horse-lover68
SeaWorld never owned Keiko, nor did they apply for a permit to catch him. That was Miami Seaquarium. After Iceland, Keiko only lived at Marineland Canada, Reino Aventura and Oregon Coast Aquarium.
It's just my idea but, probably, as soon as they realized that Keiko was sick, the park managers decided to get rid of it/pretend to free it, at least for the fans of these Shows... saving themselves trouble and disposal costs of dead animals. What a noble gesture. 🤬
I think it was costed way too much for this theory. They spent more money on “freeing” Keiko than Free Willy.
This needs to be pinned
@@cosettetucker6472 they say.
@@cristinamiacatio1031
The failed Keiko project cost $20m. His state of the art tank in Oregon only cost $7m. The only reason they "freed" Keiko, is because the billionaire funding the project was caught cheating on his wife and withdrew his support, so Keiko was abandoned in Norway.
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i love these whales so much. its important to keep some rare animals captive to keep there spices alive longer everybody loved this whale what a treasure he was🙏🏻🖤🤍they need a bigger tank🐳
Poor Keiko 😢
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I won’t forget when I met Keiko I was just a toddler and went with my late father it was a special day for me I remember when he splashed at me and the cool part is his show was with Jason Ritcher AKA Jesse I love that whale and always will
glad u got ur thrills at thr expensive of an animmals life shame on u
È perchè portano i bambini a vedere certi spettacoli che gli animali saranno incarcerati a vita!!!!
How come his fin didn’t go back up?? Why is it still flopped over like that??
It was a birth defect that couldn't be fixed.
It happens in captivity they do not know why and once it's like that it will never fix itself unfortunately
@@ashleylynn2701There are orcas in the wild with the same condition. Search- Port and Starboard Wild Orcas. There is one in the Loro Parque Gibraltar video as well.
We will miss you😢 You are the perfect whale
what does Jason James Richter think about this heartbreaking news video
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Fun Fact: The Mexican title for Free Willy is Liberate a Willy.
Waaaaa my babyyyyyyy ..... :(
I desire dying as well resting in peace & joining my loved who are no longer with me. May these times also be my final days on earth during the 2020's. I miss so much of the past, but only the beneficial part, not the malignant part.
Animals are here with us, not for us
TV show 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
At 27 he was still a baby rip sorry you lost your freedom ❤
Who of us wouldn't trade decades alive in miserable prison for 4 years of freedom? I know I would. I wish Tokitae had a chance to swim free again with her mother who is still alive at 90! But now we must make them free her tank mate Li'l who is still trapped in Miami. Li'l was captured in 1988, he's been in prison for 35 years and deserves to be free before they kill him too! Miami seems to have a big problem with many dolphins dying in their care. We cannot help Tokitae abut we can help Li'L.
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God bless him what a shame the water being different from where he went and where he was for the film a lot colder and it was so different and it made him I'll what a shame he was beautiful may be if he found his family it may of been different but it seams as if the water was too cold for him he wasn't use to it
He lived in Oregon for 3 years between Mexico and Iceland. While he was still in Mexico, Warner Bros. had paid to have a cooling system installed in his pool.
That is not how pneumonia manifests.
god knw he was suffering--and into his hand he swam
All animals belong in the wild, not in tanks and cages…
He had a pretty shit life being taken from his family being put in Mexico got kinda better after but at the end sure humans were his comfort but he died alone.. which is sad
Wish they could do a biopic on him
Who would play him? I wonder if Walt Conti still has that servohydraulic orca model 🤔.
I rather see him die home than held in captivity. Evil humans.
I really hope he did find his family..
He didn't.
Keiko had his pneumonia😢
At least he died free
So do homeless people and stray animals. "Freedom" is not for everyone.
He was still young! Humand robbed him off more than half his life. I am still angry and with the SeaWorld debacle all the lies and coverups it’s disgusting
First Keiko not Lolita ! 😢😢😢😢😢😢 I can’t 🙏🙏🙏
Idk I know a lot of ppl are sad he didn't get a perfect happy ending, but I feel like being able swim in hundreds of miles of open water must have been nice after being in a tiny warm tank for most of his life. I'm glad he was able regain his health in Oregon too. LOL That one guy that gave no Fs about Keiko kind of cracked me up cuz it was such a random thing to include 😂
I really hope they stop the capture of Orcas and dolphins. For the ones already in captivity, I hope people are able to find solutions to give the better living conditions for their remaining time.
thanks dear
Fun fact: orcas are dolphins.
The name killer whales was originally killer of whales.
Funny how important the little words are.
The difference between whale and dolphin is the position of the dorsal fin.
@@dougaltolan3017yeah but dolphins are whales!? 🤷🏻♀️
@@sabsinoname yup kinda.
Dolphins are toothed whales, as opposed to baleen whales.
So orcas are dolphins, which are whales...
Keiko story is so sad, all those effort just can’t make him live his life in the wild. This just prove any wild animal shouldn’t be captured again for human entertaiment.
And before you telling me atleast he free. No, he die *young* at wild , normal orca should at least live to 50-80 years. He die just a year after he set free and within all those years he’s lonely because every orca pod reject him
For those that dont know the real store .. Keiko signed a deal with the devil for fame and fortune .. he clearly chose the fast life .. hence him dying at 27 .. joing the infamous 27 club
Forcing this majestic creature into a life of captivity is CRIMINAL! Close Sea World now!
Keiko never lived at SeaWorld.
@@tessdurberville711 Irrelevant! No animal should EVER live at SeaWorld!!!
I think he should have stayed in the Oregon aquarium. He still depended on people for food and wanted human friendship so what did setting him “ free “ really do ???
Now, let's do this for Lolit! 🐋
No.
"The 27 year old whale died this afternoon with a sudden onset of pneumonia"
Espero estar pronto contigo bebé, en Reino Aventura con Paax y Huesitos, mi niño, hermoso, jamás debieron atraparte ❤️
"Died Suddenly"
My name’s Keiko 🫡😢
“I guess this doesn’t really affect me” 🤣
Keiko WAS ABLE TO SURVIVE IN THE WILD, HE HUNTED HIMSELF so stopp lying!! But Yes he was a confused animal and if they would have found his family, his story would have been different. Orca's never forget!!
Do you think his mom is still alive? I would think much like Stripe after Corky's capture she at least gave Keiko sibling(s) at least. It's possible he already had siblings if he wasn't the the first born.
@@selenaali1999 They did not find Keiko's family, sadly!!! They could have passed through the waters of Iceland like transient's do. And I am not so good at ecotypes but I think Keiko was a transient, but he learned how to eat fish not mammals',s, maybe that was the problem??
The sientist's know so much more today, we cannot compare Keiko with other orca's like Lolita.- her mother is still alive and I pray that they let her go in this seabay with human care as fast as possible. 8n captivity the animals all due at 1/3, 9f their lifespan, but they are still lying and thinking they are the best. It is a cult. Everybody who has read John Hargroves book understand's how these people are thinking-, it's like sientology and the government should stop this. Because 8f the animals and the people!!
@@horse-lover68 I know that they didn't and I believe he was a northern resident or Icelandic which both does eat fish. Was just asking if there's a possibility of his mom being alive. Who knows, she might be.
@@selenaali1999 Yes she might be like Lolita's!! But if he was a Southern resident why would they bring him to Iceland?? Anyway they pulled the orca's out if the 9cean and did not care from where they were coming from. I think you are right, when his family was really around Iceland and Norway these orca's are fisheater 's- heringrun. But nobody could be absolute sure, Keiko was handfestes fish, so they were happy to learn him to hunt fish. For mammal's he would need a pod and I don''t believe that somebody can untrain an orca from captivity to a mammal eater again, nit after 20 year's. But I don','t know, I am no expert.
@@horse-lover68 Neither am I.
I admired this beautiful killer whale 🐳 since I was a kid and saw him on Mexican tv🇲🇽📺
Specially when he was part of a Mexican soap-opera (telenovela)
The day I learned he died my heart broke into millions of pieces 🧩 💔 and my chest hurt 😢
I miss him but I know he’s in a better place
Right next to God
Keiko pass away because he was in Hot Waters way to long and when you put him in cold water way to fast that how he die I know he with god now and he is safe and be back with his Family
He lived in Oregon for 3 years between Mexico and Iceland.
His death is obviously a sad one. However, he was pretty good with humans, to say the least. However, he wasn’t that great with fellow orcas. Keiko is an inspiration to many captive animals.
So sad. These whales swim 60 miles a day in the wild and they put him alone in a bathtub
60/100/1000. You anti-caps cannot even agree on that.
Вы зарабатывали на нем деньги и не смогли его спасти 😢😢😢😢😢
Somebody poisoned him
He was only 27 and thats like a third of his normal living in the wild all these sea world places that hold these animals in captivity aught to be ashamed of themselves just to make money for a whale that lives in a tank that is far far to small I cried finally see him being free but still depending on humans what a heartbreak this is. No one and I mean no one should go to see whales,seals,dolphins and all other sea creatures they belong in the ocean not a gold fish tank so saddened bye this video I have to turn it of 😢
R.I.P. KEIKO ❤❤❤
Died free
He die on my birthday 😢
Wasn't Keikos choice to be taken and used in a movie.
Leave them all alone to be wild as they are meant to be
He was taken from the wild sometime between 1979 and 1981. The film was not made until 1992.
Shame on humans
No rabid animal rights activist here by any means but for the life of me putting an incredibly intelligent animal that is designed to swim millions of miles during its natural lifetime in a tank so it can swim in circles for decades is abhorrent. Kind of like putting a bird in a cage so it can't fly just so you can look at it ☹....
Although I completely agree with you, animal rights activists aren’t “rabid”. Caring for living creatures is the ultimate act of kindness. True Christians understand this - not the phony mega church ilk.
So ridiculous 😪 people are sad!? There are many more in captivity 😔 care for them…
Их и дальше будут ловить, считают что это всего лишь бизнес, а что чувствует живое существо им плевать
Keiko jamás debió d ser liberada x eso murió pq nunca c adapto 😢😢😢