SeaScope 52 - Keiko - Homeward Bound
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- You can now see the entire original documentaries about Keiko during 2021:
Keiko: Born to be Wild can now be seen at this link:
watch.eventive.org/oceanfutur...
Keiko: Gate to Freedom can now be seen at this link:
watch.eventive.org/oceanfutur...
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For over 18 years, Keiko the killer whale performed tricks for marine park audiences. Now he’s working up to the greatest trick of all - returning home to the wild waters off Iceland. He has lots of help, including trainers, scientists, and even the U.S. Air Force!
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Just gonna throw this out there: Keiko was one of the sickest orcas in captivity, suffering in a high-altitude city (which is unnatural for orcas), with very warm tap water mixed with salt. He had developed a papilloma virus infection of his skin and was extremely underweight ( the outlines of his skull were visible ). IMMP had a state-of-the-art huge tank built to rehabilitate Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, featuring real seawater and an ozone water-treatment system that avoided the use of harsh chemicals like chlorine, which SeaWorld uses in their parks’s tanks. Keiko was flown from Mexico City to Newport Oregon, after receiving a boisterous farewell from thousands and thousands of children who lined the streets of Mexico City to wave goodbye to Keiko.
Keiko thrived in Oregon. He put on over 3,000 pounds, increased his diving time underwater ( from 3 minutes when he first arrived to almost 20 minutes ), pursued live fish, experienced real seawater for the first time in over 14 years and was completely cured of his skin disease. The next step in his rehabilitation went forward as he was flown to a seaside sanctuary in Iceland. Finally, at last, he was back in his home waters.
In Iceland, Keiko continued his growth and exercise, including “walks” where he followed a special boat out into the Atlantic Ocean, returning to his sanctuary. Ultimately, IMMP and the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation did not really “release” Keiko - he simply swam away and was free.
During several months in the wild, Keiko fed himself, maintained his weight, and interacted with wild orca pods, although he never joined up with them. It is unlikely that he ever found his own pod of orca relatives.
He finally swam all the way from Iceland to the Norwegian coast. There, he began interacting with people on the shore and was in danger of being hit by boat traffic, so IMMP and the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation led him to an isolated cove where he could be watched and fed, but was free to come and go as he pleased.
When Keiko died, he was the second-longest lived orca ever kept in captivity at that time. SeaWorld never bothered to mention that during the time IMMP and the Free Willy/Keiko Foundation were rehabilitating and releasing Keiko back to his wild ocean home, 17 orcas died in captivity. I’ll repeat that: 17 orcas died in captivity during the time Keiko was being rehabilitated in Oregon and his sea pen and finally free in his ocean home. SeaWorld has nothing to say about their captivity failures.
Informative read. Thank you
Ascension 2000 You’re welcome
Thank you! It is very sad that Keiko never found his family again, but he adapted almost perfectly to the wild ocean. By the way, you forgot to mention Keiko died battling pneumonia, a disease he had since young. He was a warrior.
It angers me Seaworld refuses to release their remaining Orcas. Did you read the lawsuits filed against Seaworld in 2011 on behalf of the captive Orcas? our court systems give basic animal rights to cats, dogs, and various animals, yet fail to recognize Orca as anymore than Seaworld's property.....
Orcas dying in captivity are not "captivity failures". If that were true, they wouldn't make money from their captivity -- they wouldn't be able to have them work to entertain SeaWorld's paying guests if they were sick and sickly-looking. (The fact that Keiko was sickly-looking prompted the Mexican park owners to give him away, didn't it? He was no longer profitable, and most Mexicans were happy to see him be moved to Oregon.)
Orcas also die in the wild. How many wild Icelandic orcas died while Keiko was being readied for release? Oh, my goodness! That many! How many humans who had ever been guests at SeaWorld died in that period? You don't say!!
What a pointless point!
....And, interestingly, you're saying (by implication, from the way you said it) that Keiko is NO LONGER the second-longest lived orca ever kept in captivity?
So, SeaWorld (or Sea World of Australia or Sea World of Kamogawa in Japan) are getting better and better in caring for their captive orcas? ....Hmmmm.
Here's something YOU omit to mention -- the proportion of captive orcas who were BORN IN CAPTIVITY. Do we know which ones live longer? (The captured ones or the captive-born ones?)
Do most of the 'Blackfish'-watching nutjobs even know that??!? (That the majority of current captive orcas had NEVER BEEN IN THE WILD in the first place?)
So, why should SeaWorld (and the numerous other marine mammal parks and aquariums around the world) put a stop their breeding programs? Or put a stop to trading orcas among each other who are captive-born? They should keep breeding them and continue to make money exhibiting THEM (with trainers in the water)!!
I LOVE YOU KEIKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Keiko is finally home.” 🤍
Now we have to do the same for Lolita even though keiko didn’t live long in the wild Lolita’s been in captivity for like 40 years and her tank is so so so small. “Willy” had other orcas and Lolita’s. Companion Hugo committed suicide when she was young so she has two dolphins now
Lolita is now in retirement. So maybe shes lucky enough to get rehabilitated
@@rudolfhubert7809 We NEED to help her NOW. Tilikum died knowing only a prison, Lolita deserves to one day die free in the ocean like Keiko: wild and free!
"'Willy' [Keiko] had other orcas..."
No, Keiko did not have other orcas. (And, when the adolescent male Keiko DID have other orcas, early on in his captivity, he was bullied by them.)
Keiko had, in his Mexico City tank (Reino Aventura), just two dolphins as companions.
If you release Lolita into the open ocean, she will just swim back to the humans. She will probably be at greater risk of injury from collisions with boat traffic in harbors. Caring for Keiko in his pseudo-wild situation was cost prohibitive. The Free Willy Foundation was actually lucky that he died so soon.
If people are paying ticket money to see Lolita, then obviously it makes more economic sense to keep her in an entertainment venue.
Keiko should never have been taken away from his pod a long time ago! While he was performing when he was a young orca, did anyone ever cared to think about his pod back then before his film Free Willy was in production no! It was children that became the voice for Keiko's release to return to the wild! It was our voice that helped set Keiko free when I was little. I was very little when the first Free Willy movie came out. Does anybody know what ever became of Keiko's pod over the years or whatever happen to his pod when he was returned to his home? Sea World need to learn something from this how they treat their Orcas.
I can't believe how amazing keiko was
I'm not, shall we say, a weepy individual but this brought tears to my eyes 😢
Much love for all who worked on this
he was so trusting--in the end he knew his life was to be his own
I almost crying watching this because I was happy to see him released
Annette Melnychuk Releasing him killed him.
@@danielledewitt1 He would have died in captivity anyway. At least he had a brief taste of freedom.
Romulan2469 Very brief.
@@danielledewitt1 I think the free Keiko project had the right intentions, however used the wrong way of implementing it. I'm no supporter of captivity nor am I a supporter of freeing all captive whales into the wild. The Keiko project was too bold to be successful. Keiko should have been released into a sea pen and cared and looked after from there. There is no way an orca being in captivity as long as him was ever going to last long on his own without human care.
Romulan2469 No wild animals including orcas should be in captivity.
In the end he chose people over his own kind.
Maybe he chose orcas but the orcas rejected him? Kind of like how an ugly girl might choose a handsome guy, but the handsome guy rejects her, so the ugly girl decides to lower her standards and just purses ugly men from then on. I don't think it's accurate to say "In the end, she chose ugly guys over handsome guys".
@@moondog7694 Maybe he did not know how to speak - he was only baby when he was captured, knowing only baby talk . And every baby Orca has to learn language. And every pod has different dialect. eg. Like Aboriginal Baby talking to Irish Man in order to coordinate attack on shark, sting ray etc. It is hard. And lonely.
Relief! He made it!
RIP KEIKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Miss baby Keiko
Thank you for upload
Miss you keikoo❤❤😔
I wonder if kiekos ears popped while flying with the pressure
Je vous ai observé dans une vidéo, vous aviez l'air songeur en regardant Keiko moi j'ai jamais cru que Keiko dans l'océan, dans la baie il aurait été heureux! Îl n'a aucune malice et il allé mourir en Norvège près des homme.
I can't believe a captive whales travelled more than I have!
Poor Keiko 😭😭😭
Jerry smurf: Where are you guys going?
Henry Smurf: We are getting Corky back in the wild in busan!
Bread: Let's go!
R.i.p keiko
Kieko Loved being in the wild he even let kids ride on his back
@Sousa Teuzii Trolling? Who said I was trolling? Also this is an old Comment I bet his years in the wild were fun at some points but for the most part Agonising lol
@Sousa Teuzii I guess but that was his years in the sanctuary but my opinion on this is really warped and complicated bc I think he hated captivity his tank was way to small and I think he liked the sanctuary And he found it sorta fun to be in the wild but after a while I bet it got extremely hard to survive anyways that’s just my opinion we have no idea how he felt about it all lol
@Sousa Teuzii I think they should have kept him at the sanctuary he seemed happy to be with everyone he loved in a larger home
But technically Kiekos Release was just a test to see if they should do it again
Yeah at this pointI agree I haven’t don’t much research on Kieko and his release but yeah he was in a very tight situation but was there any other aquarium that would take him?
@Sousa Teuzii hey we don’t completely know why they didn’t
INSPERATIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bawlin. Love that whale ♡
The first time I ever seen a whale fly lol
My man Keiko broke that plane's landing gear
an thank u to the free willie film and children who helped writ letters
Corky's captivity is to return her to the wild.
After she spend 55 years in aquarium Corky is ready to go home to Busan where she was captured as a baby.
Choco: Corky Let's check your temperature.
Bread: Let's go corky. Let's get you home to busan.
god swept up this gentle creature and took him to iceland--then to sit at the lord gods heaven
Keiko sweet baby
Send big hug love kiss Keiko
Dude never in my life would I ever think there would ever be a fucken whale a WHALE FLYING IN A PLAIN !!!! I fucken plain !!! Wow from the bottom of an ocean to over 30,000 feet in the air flying lol
Keiko is favorite orca
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May there be the rest to follow more quickly...no need for any more prisoners ! We can enjoy these miraculous creatures via our technology and maybe learn their secrets of getting along within our own specie.
There is an in-depth video called Keiko's journey. I have watched it several times. I can't remember if it is on Netflix but I did watch it on CZcams.
احبك كيكو
Jerry: Where Kalia is going?
Hefty: Back to the ocean where she's from. We're going to put her back In the ocean.
Jerry: But first let's put her in bathing pen.
Jerry: and also Let's find her family with Kalia after she spend in the bathering pen.
Delta from holoulou to seattle.
Poor boo boo died 😭😭😭😭
Homeward bound
Wasn’t keiko rescued from Mexico City? Who was caught from puget sound Washington, how did they make the decision to take him to Iceland?
You might be thinking of the movies, where Willy had 'family', but no Keiko was in Mexico but was captured from Iceland. Lolita is the only surviving Orca from the captures of Puget Sound and still in captivity in the worlds smallest (illegal) tank. Which is why there is a big deal of returning her home where her mother is still alive.
Keiko was from Iceland. Maybe you're thinking of Lolita, who is the only southern resident orca still in captivity.
@@sepnyte9422 She retired in March!
😍😍💥🌍
how this poor craeture has suffered
Lily Smurf been spending her life living in Phoenix she was ready to go home to the Smurf village.
In the first video I watched, Keiko had been in captivity for 5 years. Another video said for 11 years. Now this video said for 20 years.
So how long it was really? I'm just trying to know the whole story and I'm needing to know the real story
Almost 20 years
Going home ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️
we eloved u keiko u r now with god
I’m only sorry he couldn’t find his pod. Releasing him was the right thing to do, no doubt.
Next time orcas are released, try letting them go as pairs or in a group. Then they at least have companionship from their own kind
He DID actually.
@@CoreyMillionaire2029 No, they couldn’t match his vocalization to any specific wild pod. They released him near other pods & he did travel with them for a while, but he could not fully communicate with them
Why is Keiko’s dorsal fin droopy, broken?
He couldn't swim enough in captivity. That's why the fin looks like that.
jmatt4life That’s what happenswhen they’re locked in cages.
That happens in captivity. When an orca spends A LOT of time with their backs above the surface and the muscles loosen due to lack of space to swim. They'd have to lap the pool 4,000+ times to equal the 140 miles they'd swim in the wild.
He looks happy
@@rebeccalehmann3625 During his "untraining" his dorsal fin started straightening up again some.
I thought l was going to see the same home coming for Lolita in Miami. Unfortunately, that was not the case. 😔
Hey Keiko will be free
They should’ve never freed him poor thing was alone out there and died alone smh
What!!
Ironic to use the words, Homeward Bound, due to it being a movie that came out the same year as Free Willy.
🐳💖💖💖💖💖💖😥
I know how you feel it's me Keiko
Glad to see my tax dollars spent on something great. Thank you USAF 🇺🇸
Hell yea!!!
AIM HIGH!!! FLY, FIGHT, WIN!!!!!
Most of it was donations and supported by a very rich man and then he lost most of his money in the .com crash.
I don't think it was
Good feeling he died the free orca in the wild
I meant to say I think it was a good thing that he died as a free Orca wid
But not in captivity
will beath scritto cosi? beath? dice, un lavoro come per esempio carpentiere si devono adottare dei mezzi adatti per il lavoro in serie, poi aggiunge wole, wole è l'unita di misura del tono ma inquadra delle balene dentro le vasche, swimm, si dice nuotare, 01:54 . kwaili ku .
Moved to biosyn sanctuary
We need more Orcas to be free from seaworld
@Sarah Arshad VIII-C-A I'm from SD, I've been to seaworld times when I was a child never knew about how they treat the whales til blackish. Thanks to the film seaworlds stopped the breeding but worried about the one in japan.
@@Chamorrita-rg9qp The parks in Japan aren’t breeding either since all of the whales are related. Also it’s not related to the US SeaWorld, it just had a similar name.
People who think keiko was better in the wild are stupid that's what killed him he was not wild after he turned 3
He was better in the seapen keiko lived for 5 years in the wild if he hadn’t have been rescued he wouldn’t have lasted another month in captivity
@@Borninthe80s. That's only in that too-tiny tank in Mexico City. He was much better off in the tank in Oregon. They should have kept him there and sold tickets to people who wanted to see him. (Then they could make it economical.)
I bet he died do to either stress of the new environment, starvation, or even being killed by other orcas
or all of the above.
He died of pneumonia and his caretakes were with him so he wasn't alone. He swam alone from Iceland to Norway, feeding himself along the way. He did well and he lived longer than he would have had he stayed in Mexico. Also, the park in Mexico offered Keiko to Seaworld for virtually nothing and they turned them down so :/
@@sepnyte9422 He was happy and healthy in Oregon.
He died from pneumonia , which is common is captive and also wild orcas , he was feeding himself which he went to Norway on his own, he was completely Robust, he didn't loose any weight , when he didn't feed himself his car takers did, watch the Untold Story of Keiko and he certainly was killed by other orcas either.
He caught a cold I like a flu type thing whales get and he never recovered
i kill keiko
Disgusting!
Keiko is "FINALLY home", after he was captured since he was a baby!?!