aw the fact he was so used to humans that he was interacting with them in norway... my heart. ❤️ very intellegiant animals, beautiful story of his life, I cried when I heard he was seen interacting with humans after his release, very very loyal. its a shame he couldnt relocate with his natural pod. . rip
I think he suffered to much from captivity and was very depressed of lonelyness and was confused, although he let us see that he could take care of his own food. I think it was the best for him that he died soon after being released. Even humans who are prisoned are hospitalized. They also get much problems after their release. The mentally problems get bigger after a long time and much fall back to their own habbits, and get back into prison.
The biggest thing I noticed about Keiko when watching this: HIS EYES. Look at footage of him stuck in his bath tub: His eyes were dull and lifeless. Now look closely at footage of him swimming free. Yes, he sought out humans. But his eyes are calm and full of life. He crossed a huge Ocean, it was clear he could feed himself. Did his wild brethren "ask"him to return to humans? did they "ask" him to be an ambassador for his species? We'll never know the full story. Orca are highly intelligent. Some say more than most people. I truly believe they are completely aware that humans hunt them and hurt them. Maybe they saw a slim chance to change the Human mind/attitude. Maybe I'm creating foolish fantasy's. But as the great bard once said: There are greater things in heaven and earth than we shall ever know. Humans are so removed from nature, so puffed up with their own arrogant importance, that many of us have lost our abilities to see the glory of the wild world. In the end, Keiko died. Maybe his time was just up. Maybe something sinister killed him. HOWEVER: he died a free Whale. Humans like to say; "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees" Keiko died "on his feet", on his own terms and not a slave for entertainment. All captive Orca deserve the same chances Keiko had. They all deserve to live or die, in freedom.
See my profile picture , that is Keiko in Norway. I made that as my profile picture becouse so many believe he died as a sad whale. I believe getting back to the ocean was the best tving that happend to him.
@@ksibru5504 (f course it was the best thing for him!!! He was healthy, happy and thriving!! He only died so young because of his weak immunsystem that he had from all those year's in captivity!! Some aquarium wanted to catch him and asked the Norwegian government for a permit, I guess that is why they did not want anyone to speak about Keiko. These aquarium hard liner's would twist everything around!! Thank God the Norwegian government did NOT give them a permit!! The odasity to ask for it is unbelievable!!!
Humans did hurt him so, so much. He still does love them. Doesn't that show that animals are the better humans? I think he did die on broken heart. Humans are terrible...
oOAngel1988Oo humans did not hurt him so much. Except for 20 some years ago being ripped from his mother as a baby, he had humans feed him, play with him, give him the tactile stimulation orcas need. To him, humans were pretty nice to him. If a human baby had something traumatizing done to them but had a pretty nice life, they would like people too. Humans are terrible, ripping an orca away from the only environment he's known most of his life and sugar coating his lone existence is pretty terrible.
@@aylabilse3697 problem is those "nice" humans kept him in tiny pools letting his fin flop =/ Obviously the trainers cared and did their best but the ones legally owning (sadly animals are property the way slaves were) him didn't have his happiness too high on their priority list, him making them money was more important =/
@@aylabilse3697 if you want to compare to kids imagine a teen who can't make themselves a snack because mom always fed them, cut their food up for them as if they were a toddler... That would be considered abuse, neglect at best. I hope more orcas are moved to sea pods. Maybe give them a bay. At least for a few years so they can learn to really swim (travel), catch food, etc. Might be easier for them if released as a pod so they're not alone. If they want to split later on it's up to them.
Ha. I am tired of people like this talking about humans as if they all should die. Just so you know, there are bad animals too, in every group. And if they had the abilities of humans, they may be worse than we are, we just don't know.
Listening to Paul Spong, the man who pretends to be an orca researcher, makes me want to vomit. The truth is that orcas can go two months without food and not show any aesthetic signs of it. Keiko's journey was only two weeks, and in that time and previously during all of his rehab, there was ZERO proof he ever fed himself. Actually, when they tried getting him to eat stunned herring from a nearby pod not long before the "journey", he refused to eat it. Keiko didn't leave his caretakers in Iceland. They ditched him early due to a storm approaching out at sea and Keiko, just like he did before, took off in a random direction in a straight line because his caretakers were gone and he had no sense of direction. This is backed up by past experiences on loosing him during boat walks. Once he finds the boat, he never leaves. His release was a complete failure, but not only that, it slowly destroyed Keiko's wellbeing. Read the book Killing Keiko and learn the true story the free-the-whale activists refuse to tell. Not only did Keiko not want to "be free," but he never learned to hunt, (which is technically impossible without a pod as orcas are pack hunters), he never joined a pod, and proved that he was happy with being cared for and fed by humans for the rest of his life. This project denied him all of that just because a bunch of unprofessional activists wanted to re-create a movie. Right when Keiko showed up in Norway he should have been recaptured and taken back to Oregon Coast Aquarium where they could afford to take care of him. Not to mention the organizations who were caring for him lost all donor support which meant almost NO MONEY toward this poor whale's care. All of the original professionals who were caring for him had to be dropped from the project because they could not afford to pay them properly. But god forbid you prove activists with an agenda wrong!!!
You need to do some more research, because 90% of what you wrote is total bullshit, and there's ample footage available to prove it. But based on your screen name...... I'm pretty sure that's not something you're interested in.
I care about these orcas and humans should not capture them anymore I agree. But the ones that are already in aquariums I do not believe should be released to the wild bc they fall in love with their caregivers and love the kids. Here’s an orca that was captured when he was 2 years off the coast in Iceland in the 70s. He was the star of the movie of the 90s named Free Willy. But his real name is Keiko. He was brought to a sanctuary and for 6 years they taught him how to hunt and be wild again. After being released back to the ocean in Iceland he found his cousins but once he ran into humans and kids he dumped the ocean and just wanted to be loved by the kids! So I do not believe that animals that have been in captivity want to go back to the ocean. He’s soo cute and loving 🥰 I do think that if orcas start being wild or hurt a trainer and was from the wild originally I do think that to prevent them from hurting any humans those should be good candidates for rehabilitation and then set free. I just love the orcas so much. They are beautiful animals. And the thing is 23 alive today we’re born in an aquarium and they never knew the ocean and love humans !!
Keiko was used to people. Banning him from the only thing he had ever known was cruel. He died of pneumonia. Or maybe loneliness. But buried in Norway. More dignified than had he stayed captive.
Actually he died of pneumonia on December 12, 2003. And he did choose to have contact with humans. He swam to Norway & allowed people to pet & play with him - becoming such an attraction - that Animal Protection Authorites imposed a ban on approaching him. He obviously wanted companionship. Poor thing. He was so beautiful. :(
Kleibeel Marcano I disagree. Although I'm 100% against these Whales being in captivity, this particular ORCA and others that have been in captivity for long periods of time, have a almost insurmountable disadvantage when released. They have no family. And family is everything to these animals. It's not like releasing a Leopard that's solitary, these ORCAS live in family groups never leaving them till the day they die. It's cruel in my opinion to take this whale and release him into the wild after 20 some odd years in captivity. It was painfully obvious Keiko missed human companionship, which is exactly why he followed a boat in and stayed while people payed attention to him. I think a sea pen like Ingrid Visser recommends would be ideal and would've been great for Keiko.
+Chris Kavanagh The thing is; prior to getting sick, he once again began gaining more weight and getting longer (happened at every stage of the process after leaving Mexico), so we know he was active and eating well, and therefore wasn't depressed, and no matter how lonely he may have been..... he was still in an ocean teeming with life, a far cry from an empty concrete pool. As for his family... He was reunited with his remaining relatives, and given their brain power, it's safe to say they at the very least recognized him as one of their own. We'll never know why he chose to leave, but I suspect he was already getting sick and couldn't keep up. But even if he left solely to seek out the company of humans.... What's important is that it was HIS choice to do so.
Watching Michael lie straight to the camera's face is repulsive. I also like how Steve states facts then Michael gets mad. LOL "Showed up fat after his 6 week journey." Is this a joke? Yeah. It is a joke to them because they know they can get away with lying to the public because the public has no idea what happened. First of all his journey was only 3 weeks, and second, there was no way to weigh Keiko when he was in the wild. They did do body measurements by measuring his girth and actually, after his journey, his girth STAYED THE SAME, so no, he didn't gain any weight. But girth measuring is also not accurate at all. Measurements alone are not an adequate indicator of weight loss. Keiko could go 6 weeks without food and not show any sign of it. These people are sick liars... taking credit for things they didn't do.
Keiko fell victim to the mantra “free at all costs”. Contrary to what’s told to the public, this was not a sudden death by any stretch of the imagination. This was the onslaught of cronic negative stress, induced by deprivation from his human family. By starvation in slow measures. Because instead of 120 pounds a day, they gave him 20 pounds every other day. To keep him hungry, so he’d go out and look for his own fish and he’d go frolic with wild whales, but that didn’t happen. He exhibited all sorts of behavioral neurosies, aberrant behavior. Slamming his head against boats that were in the bay, throwing fits out in the middle of the bay, and sometimes sitting there so calm it didn’t create a ripple on the water. FROM KILLLING KEIKO: "To Keiko, the new world defied recognition. In a moment, he was bathed in playful love. In another moment he was left to his own devices, unpredictable spans of time between. He waited. Always he waited. Eventually they would again acknowledge his presence. In time, they would return. They always returned. He listened. He would meet them at the dock or hear the wanting sound of the small boat being boarded. Maybe he would follow the boat on an adventure. Maybe he would carry them on his back about the bay. He didn’t know what would come. He waited. Hunger kept him company. He was always fungry. Tired. Eternally tired. Keiko did not look well. Though he conceded to whatever was asked of him and reliably returned the affections of his trainers, he did very little else but rest, stilled at the surface. Day in and day out, he remained inert, scarcely casting a ripple across the glassy surface surrounding him. Keiko, his choice and his needs, were buried under the wreckage created at the convergence of agenda, negligence and ineptitude. Metabolically Keiko’s body deteriorated. So long had he been minimally nourished, his once abundant stores were now hopelessly depleted. Lacking any other source of fuel, his systems had turned on itself, extracting what little energy he had left from his own tissue. Remiss of the life-giving water contained in his fish, chronic dehydration had long ago set to purpose wreaking havoc on his vital organs. His old familiar enemy found a home in his lungs and flourished against a vastly weakened immune system. Outwardly, his great size and blanket of blubber subverted attention from the struggle within. During the night, Keiko’s strength to stay upright and near the surface drained from his body. No longer able to support himself at the surface, he dropped slowly to the darkening depths, finally coming to rest, his massive pecs gently propped on the sea floor. Absolute silence surronded him. As the cold stark deadness of night turned toward the life of day, his life emptied from his body. Once a great and mighty animal, forceful of breath, his last feeble exhale came unanswered by the all-familiar inhale. At this, the end of his long sojourn to freedom, apart from both human or whale, Keiko died". 😭😭😭
Before Keiko The Orca Whale Passed Away He Was Having A Relationship With His Father and Lord and Savior Jesus Christ He Was Asking God To Set Keiko Free and He Also Asking God To Forgive The People That Came Into Keikos Life In Jesus Name Amen 🙏 Our Dear Friend Keiko The Orca Whale Is Now Free In Heaven And He Is Now A Guardian Angel Watching Over The People That Came Into His Life In Jesus Name Amen 🙏
I think trying to force a wild animal that was captive for most of its life to go free/reintroduce it to the wild by hook or by crook is almost as bad as capturing it. It feels like misguided activism from those people complaining about the setbacks. Clearly it couldn't survive on its own anymore and should've just remained in an enclosure with trainers.
Leave him alone. Why do we have to control him? He is free now. He would rather live a day free, than "healthy" in captivity. Maybe they can tag him to not be killed. I guess I'm just sick of humans constantly interfering in his life and controlling him.
We tend to stick to what we know =/ It's like a dumped dog or cat. They act feral but when they meet friendly people they often want to be a pet again.
@@d-meth What does your tiny brain not understand?? It's a big difference between a dog and an orca?? And they did all in slow steps. It was a success you uneducated Dummie
people get it through your head Keiko was happy being cared for by his human friends he was a beautiful animal who grew up with humans not other orca's these idiot "professionals" who say he was thriveing in the wild please kiss my butt I've watched orcas for the past 18 years of my life from when I was one to now as I'm eighteen I loved that orca a lot I have watched the movies and studied orca's all these years orca's thrive on communication and family bonds based on how pods are in the wild Keiko wanted to be with humans based on how he acted till he died he didn't deserve to die alone
You have ZERO degrees in Marine Biology, Whale medicine or even Veterinary Medicine but YOU of 8 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH. Know exactly what happened to this whale. You’re an idiot.
To sent him back was the best for him dont get me wrong. But of curse that orca is gonna be confused, he got captured when he was only a baby... Hope pepole really leard a lesson from this.. The damaged suck a wonderfull creature.🖤
This makes me furious and breaks my heart at the same time. So many lies, a life sacrificed all for the ideology of the anti-zoo, anti-animal cult. Keiko suffered horribly and needlessly for people's ideology and agenda. He didn't fulfill any standard of release, and the release protocol for him strictly said if he was not feeding (he wasn't, and was subsequently starved by his caregivers), if he was not integrating with wild whales (he wasn't, he was terrified of killer whales and they only attacked him), if he could not let go of his bond with humans (he clearly couldn't - the only thing Keiko ever wanted was to be. with. people!), he had to be rescued and put back in human care for the rest of his life. The evil people of HSUS, like Naomi Rose, made sure that could never happen. It was an illegal act of cruelty that they did, and when he was dead, only a year after his "release" (which amounted only to being left alone out in the ocean due to bad weather, and he followed the current - animals prefer to save energy and be lazy, you know - and swam right back to humans), they made sure to bury him immediately, with no necropsy.
Frida Nyberg, He shouldn't have been taken in the first place but the fact of them wanting to release him alone is a bad idea becouse your right he's lonely and is physically starving himself to get attention, so your right in ways but these Orkas don't need to be in cative in the first place
How you know all this? He didnt have marks after attack and didnt loos weight, as I heard his trainers said in the media. So he had to eat between Iceland and Norway. And he didnt die alone either, he had his people around. Keiko was sick, maybe becouse he didnt have good immune system. And it is normal whales swim to the coast/land when they are sick. Makes sence Keiko did the same, and also he wanted to be around humans. They didnt know he was sick before the day before he died, he did hide that well couse he was fit. I am sure he died happy.
@@ksibru5504 FROM KILLLING KEIKO: "To Keiko, the new world defied recognition. In a moment, he was bathed in playful love. In another moment he was left to his own devices, unpredictable spans of time between. He waited. Always he waited. Eventually they would again acknowledge his presence. In time, they would return. They always returned. He listened. He would meet them at the dock or hear the wanting sound of the small boat being boarded. Maybe he would follow the boat on an adventure. Maybe he would carry them on his back about the bay. He didn’t know what would come. He waited. Hunger kept him company. He was always fungry. Tired. Eternally tired. Keiko did not look well. Though he conceded to whatever was asked of him and reliably returned the affections of his trainers, he did very little else but rest, stilled at the surface. Day in and day out, he remained inert, scarcely casting a ripple across the glassy surface surrounding him. Keiko, his choice and his needs, were buried under the wreckage created at the convergence of agenda, negligence and ineptitude. Metabolically Keiko’s body deteriorated. So long had he been minimally nourished, his once abundant stores were now hopelessly depleted. Lacking any other source of fuel, his systems had turned on itself, extracting what little energy he had left from his own tissue. Remiss of the life-giving water contained in his fish, chronic dehydration had long ago set to purpose wreaking havoc on his vital organs. His old familiar enemy found a home in his lungs and flourished against a vastly weakened immune system. Outwardly, his great size and blanket of blubber subverted attention from the struggle within. During the night, Keiko’s strength to stay upright and near the surface drained from his body. No longer able to support himself at the surface, he dropped slowly to the darkening depths, finally coming to rest, his massive pecs gently propped on the sea floor. Absolute silence surronded him. As the cold stark deadness of night turned toward the life of day, his life emptied from his body. Once a great and mighty animal, forceful of breath, his last feeble exhale came unanswered by the all-familiar inhale. At this, the end of his long sojourn to freedom, apart from both human or whale, Keiko died".
WHICH PRISON WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN. I’M SURE YOU’D PREFER BEING LOCKED IN A CELL WITH APES AS GUARDS WHO FEED YOU PEANUTS FOR DOING TRICKS FOR THE OTHER APES.
Setting an orca free, after he spent over 20 years in the company of humans since he was 2 and who had never learnt to find food on his own, was cruel. Orcas live in pods and they would not accept him if he wasn’t from their pod. Orcas teach their young where to hunt and find food in the ocean. How did these people expect him to live in the wild when he was never taught to hunt for food? He should have lived out his life in the sanctuary.
Kako was probly the worst candidate besides the fact he was dying in a tank and he still did amazing i dont think he would know how to be wild whale and i bet the matriarch of whale pods chased him away he probly wanted to be with whales it takes more then him to be exceptid
Wasn't than rumors about Norway fisherman who said Keiko swan the wrong turn, 5hey don't want him in Norway and he looks so healthy and than suddenly he dies. What a coincidence. I don't believe in such coincidence's. Keiko was a threat to all marine land's and to fisherman. I think somebody killed him because if these reasons.
...So she can do the same thing Keiko did! It costs too much money doing what they did to Keiko. Captive orcas -- if they've lived in captivity long enough -- will want human companionship. It makes more sense to train them to entertain PAYING VISITORS. We need SeaWorlds and Marinelands ...with larger tanks! (Oh, yeah, and they can free them once in a while -- so that we can witness them coming back to the humans. Put them back in the tanks and let them "earn their pay" entertaining people.)
He died in freedom! Rather that from dying in a small swimingpool!!!! These are wild animals that should live in big oceans. He died happier then he ever was in captivity, thats a fact!!!!
Keiko was never proven to forage for his own food, not even on his three week journey to Norway did stomach content samples prove feeding. He was intentionally fed very sparse meals by his care team in the last couple of years, and almost nothing in Norway, stubbornly holding on to the idea that “once he’s hungry enough, he’ll find food”. He had been sick several winters with pneumonia, and the next winter, in 2003, it finally took his life. He was fed so little that he couldn’t fight off the illness within him, as he had several times before. (To all those who claim “SeaWorld’s whales must perform, or they’ll starve!” - This is the only whale who has been purposely starved by humans, and it indirectly took his life.) Keiko never integrated with wild whales. He never hunted his own food. He never let go of his attachment to humans. He never stopped seeking attention from boats. He was never healthy enough to survive without human care. The only thing he did do, was swim in the ocean. That is not a successful release. It is the slow killing of an animal, and lying about it to the public, in order to make money and glory for oneself.
He could have died in the much more spacious tank in Oregon. What he needed was the stimulus he got from constant interaction with humans whose job it was to interact with him! He was no longer "wild" after more than a decade in captivity.
If this whale had never made a movie and was'nt trained to love and to take food from people know one would give this whale the time of day but because he did the news and every other news reporter all jumped on the band wagon just for a story its so sad realy just how sad and hollow people realy are . were are all these so called whale lovers when blue whales and hump back whales etc etc are being killed buy there 1000s ? they are know were but just because its little old willy from the movie they all want to jump on the willy wagon thing and follow hes story its sickening .
I actually didn't watch the whole video cuz I've seen many others he actually lived five years in the Wild and Free and all captive animals should be put in sanctuaries and then released into the wild they shouldn't be contained in horrible conditions to make money for people
Yup. Sea pens. Give them a bay and let them learn to be wild. A group should have it easier than a single one too. An artificial pod. They can split if they want to but at first at least they have each other.
@@d-meth How are you going to pay for all that? I know! ...Put stadium seating around the pens, and have the orcas do tricks with their trainers -- and charge the people money to watch this!! Just have larger water containments for them! ...Yes, and you can free them into the open sea, ...and they'll come right back! (MOST captive orcas and dolphins we have are CAPTIVE-BORN !!! Did you know that?)
@@MrJm323 sea pens not open sea 🤦♀️ Yes, most now are captive born, very few of them were wild caught as babies. But what does it have to do with sanctuaries? And most animal sanctuaries are funded by private donations.
@@d-meth Well, if this is about orcas' wellbeing, then you'd have to explain why you would want some meagre donations instead of adopting the very successful model SeaWorld created. That would generate much more money towards their welfare. (We'd only have to deal with the businessmens' concerns about the location of these these sea pens. But that huge tank they built for Keiko's rehabilitation, in Oregon, looked pretty good! They had an observation window; they just needed to add stadium seating around that large tank -- and, viola! They are in business! They wouldn't need to worry about the loss of funding, like they did with Keiko in 2002.) "Sanctuaries"? ....That's just an expression. I'm hearing in my mind Charles Laughton (as the Hunchback of Notre Damme, 1930s version) shouting "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" as he holds aloft Maureen O'Hara. Are they providing sanctuaries to protect them from the great white sharks of the open water or something? ....From the EMBARRASSMENT of the orcas swimming into some harbor or fishing village, giving rides to human children on their backs -- like Keiko did? (Probably the latter, eh?)
aw the fact he was so used to humans that he was interacting with them in norway... my heart. ❤️ very intellegiant animals, beautiful story of his life, I cried when I heard he was seen interacting with humans after his release, very very loyal. its a shame he couldnt relocate with his natural pod. . rip
I think he suffered to much from captivity and was very depressed of lonelyness and was confused, although he let us see that he could take care of his own food. I think it was the best for him that he died soon after being released. Even humans who are prisoned are hospitalized. They also get much problems after their release. The mentally problems get bigger after a long time and much fall back to their own habbits, and get back into prison.
The biggest thing I noticed about Keiko when watching this: HIS EYES. Look at footage of him stuck in his bath tub: His eyes were dull and lifeless. Now look closely at footage of him swimming free. Yes, he sought out humans. But his eyes are calm and full of life. He crossed a huge Ocean, it was clear he could feed himself. Did his wild brethren "ask"him to return to humans? did they "ask" him to be an ambassador for his species? We'll never know the full story. Orca are highly intelligent. Some say more than most people. I truly believe they are completely aware that humans hunt them and hurt them. Maybe they saw a slim chance to change the Human mind/attitude. Maybe I'm creating foolish fantasy's. But as the great bard once said: There are greater things in heaven and earth than we shall ever know. Humans are so removed from nature, so puffed up with their own arrogant importance, that many of us have lost our abilities to see the glory of the wild world. In the end, Keiko died. Maybe his time was just up. Maybe something sinister killed him. HOWEVER: he died a free Whale. Humans like to say; "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees" Keiko died "on his feet", on his own terms and not a slave for entertainment. All captive Orca deserve the same chances Keiko had. They all deserve to live or die, in freedom.
www.amazon.com/Killing-Keiko-Story-Willys-Return/dp/0996077014
See my profile picture , that is Keiko in Norway. I made that as my profile picture becouse so many believe he died as a sad whale. I believe getting back to the ocean was the best tving that happend to him.
@@ksibru5504 (f course it was the best thing for him!!! He was healthy, happy and thriving!! He only died so young because of his weak immunsystem that he had from all those year's in captivity!!
Some aquarium wanted to catch him and asked the Norwegian government for a permit, I guess that is why they did not want anyone to speak about Keiko. These aquarium hard liner's would twist everything around!! Thank God the Norwegian government did NOT give them a permit!! The odasity to ask for it is unbelievable!!!
Humans did hurt him so, so much. He still does love them. Doesn't that show that animals are the better humans? I think he did die on broken heart. Humans are terrible...
oOAngel1988Oo humans did not hurt him so much. Except for 20 some years ago being ripped from his mother as a baby, he had humans feed him, play with him, give him the tactile stimulation orcas need. To him, humans were pretty nice to him. If a human baby had something traumatizing done to them but had a pretty nice life, they would like people too. Humans are terrible, ripping an orca away from the only environment he's known most of his life and sugar coating his lone existence is pretty terrible.
@@aylabilse3697 problem is those "nice" humans kept him in tiny pools letting his fin flop =/
Obviously the trainers cared and did their best but the ones legally owning (sadly animals are property the way slaves were) him didn't have his happiness too high on their priority list, him making them money was more important =/
@@aylabilse3697 if you want to compare to kids imagine a teen who can't make themselves a snack because mom always fed them, cut their food up for them as if they were a toddler...
That would be considered abuse, neglect at best.
I hope more orcas are moved to sea pods.
Maybe give them a bay. At least for a few years so they can learn to really swim (travel), catch food, etc.
Might be easier for them if released as a pod so they're not alone. If they want to split later on it's up to them.
He died of pneumonia not a broken heart, stop that.
Ha. I am tired of people like this talking about humans as if they all should die. Just so you know, there are bad animals too, in every group. And if they had the abilities of humans, they may be worse than we are, we just don't know.
Listening to Paul Spong, the man who pretends to be an orca researcher, makes me want to vomit. The truth is that orcas can go two months without food and not show any aesthetic signs of it. Keiko's journey was only two weeks, and in that time and previously during all of his rehab, there was ZERO proof he ever fed himself. Actually, when they tried getting him to eat stunned herring from a nearby pod not long before the "journey", he refused to eat it. Keiko didn't leave his caretakers in Iceland. They ditched him early due to a storm approaching out at sea and Keiko, just like he did before, took off in a random direction in a straight line because his caretakers were gone and he had no sense of direction. This is backed up by past experiences on loosing him during boat walks. Once he finds the boat, he never leaves. His release was a complete failure, but not only that, it slowly destroyed Keiko's wellbeing. Read the book Killing Keiko and learn the true story the free-the-whale activists refuse to tell. Not only did Keiko not want to "be free," but he never learned to hunt, (which is technically impossible without a pod as orcas are pack hunters), he never joined a pod, and proved that he was happy with being cared for and fed by humans for the rest of his life. This project denied him all of that just because a bunch of unprofessional activists wanted to re-create a movie. Right when Keiko showed up in Norway he should have been recaptured and taken back to Oregon Coast Aquarium where they could afford to take care of him. Not to mention the organizations who were caring for him lost all donor support which meant almost NO MONEY toward this poor whale's care. All of the original professionals who were caring for him had to be dropped from the project because they could not afford to pay them properly. But god forbid you prove activists with an agenda wrong!!!
You need to do some more research, because 90% of what you wrote is total bullshit, and there's ample footage available to prove it.
But based on your screen name...... I'm pretty sure that's not something you're interested in.
Your stupid whatzit tooya. You have no clue about what the f:&k your talking about. Paul spong is the greatest man alive.
PAID SEA WORLD TROLL
WE STILL LOVE KEIKO HE LOVED HUMANS
Orcas love soft loving music orcas are the heart of the sea
Keiko grow up with people he loves people that is all he knows
I care about these orcas and humans should not capture them anymore I agree. But the ones that are already in aquariums I do not believe should be released to the wild bc they fall in love with their caregivers and love the kids.
Here’s an orca that was captured when he was 2 years off the coast in Iceland in the 70s. He was the star of the movie of the 90s named Free Willy. But his real name is Keiko. He was brought to a sanctuary and for 6 years they taught him how to hunt and be wild again. After being released back to the ocean in Iceland he found his cousins but once he ran into humans and kids he dumped the ocean and just wanted to be loved by the kids! So I do not believe that animals that have been in captivity want to go back to the ocean.
He’s soo cute and loving 🥰
I do think that if orcas start being wild or hurt a trainer and was from the wild originally I do think that to prevent them from hurting any humans those should be good candidates for rehabilitation and then set free.
I just love the orcas so much. They are beautiful animals. And the thing is 23 alive today we’re born in an aquarium and they never knew the ocean and love humans !!
Keiko was used to people. Banning him from the only thing he had ever known was cruel. He died of pneumonia. Or maybe loneliness. But buried in Norway. More dignified than had he stayed captive.
It is not a set back, he is free in the ocean, and he can choose if he wants to have contact with humans.
Actually he died of pneumonia on December 12, 2003. And he did choose to have contact with humans. He swam to Norway & allowed people to pet & play with him - becoming such an attraction - that Animal Protection Authorites imposed a ban on approaching him. He obviously wanted companionship. Poor thing. He was so beautiful. :(
Somebody as think the fact that pods rejected him? Just saying...
Kleibeel Marcano I disagree. Although I'm 100% against these Whales being in captivity, this particular ORCA and others that have been in captivity for long periods of time, have a almost insurmountable disadvantage when released. They have no family. And family is everything to these animals.
It's not like releasing a Leopard that's solitary, these ORCAS live in family groups never leaving them till the day they die. It's cruel in my opinion to take this whale and release him into the wild after 20 some odd years in captivity. It was painfully obvious Keiko missed human companionship, which is exactly why he followed a boat in and stayed while people payed attention to him.
I think a sea pen like Ingrid Visser recommends would be ideal and would've been great for Keiko.
+Chris Kavanagh The thing is; prior to getting sick, he once again began gaining more weight and getting longer (happened at every stage of the process after leaving Mexico), so we know he was active and eating well, and therefore wasn't depressed, and no matter how lonely he may have been..... he was still in an ocean teeming with life, a far cry from an empty concrete pool.
As for his family... He was reunited with his remaining relatives, and given their brain power, it's safe to say they at the very least recognized him as one of their own.
We'll never know why he chose to leave, but I suspect he was already getting sick and couldn't keep up. But even if he left solely to seek out the company of humans.... What's important is that it was HIS choice to do so.
+Chris Kavanagh And he wasn't in his family pod in captivity.
Watching Michael lie straight to the camera's face is repulsive. I also like how Steve states facts then Michael gets mad. LOL "Showed up fat after his 6 week journey." Is this a joke? Yeah. It is a joke to them because they know they can get away with lying to the public because the public has no idea what happened. First of all his journey was only 3 weeks, and second, there was no way to weigh Keiko when he was in the wild. They did do body measurements by measuring his girth and actually, after his journey, his girth STAYED THE SAME, so no, he didn't gain any weight. But girth measuring is also not accurate at all. Measurements alone are not an adequate indicator of weight loss. Keiko could go 6 weeks without food and not show any sign of it. These people are sick liars... taking credit for things they didn't do.
Keiko fell victim to the mantra “free at all costs”. Contrary to what’s told to the public, this was not a sudden death by any stretch of the imagination. This was the onslaught of cronic negative stress, induced by deprivation from his human family.
By starvation in slow measures. Because instead of 120 pounds a day, they gave him 20 pounds every other day. To keep him hungry, so he’d go out and look for his own fish and he’d go frolic with wild whales, but that didn’t happen.
He exhibited all sorts of behavioral neurosies, aberrant behavior. Slamming his head against boats that were in the bay, throwing fits out in the middle of the bay, and sometimes sitting there so calm it didn’t create a ripple on the water.
FROM KILLLING KEIKO: "To Keiko, the new world defied recognition. In a moment, he was bathed in playful love. In another moment he was left to his own devices, unpredictable spans of time between. He waited. Always he waited. Eventually they would again acknowledge his presence. In time, they would return. They always returned. He listened. He would meet them at the dock or hear the wanting sound of the small boat being boarded. Maybe he would follow the boat on an adventure. Maybe he would carry them on his back about the bay. He didn’t know what would come. He waited. Hunger kept him company. He was always fungry. Tired. Eternally tired.
Keiko did not look well. Though he conceded to whatever was asked of him and reliably returned the affections of his trainers, he did very little else but rest, stilled at the surface. Day in and day out, he remained inert, scarcely casting a ripple across the glassy surface surrounding him. Keiko, his choice and his needs, were buried under the wreckage created at the convergence of agenda, negligence and ineptitude.
Metabolically Keiko’s body deteriorated. So long had he been minimally nourished, his once abundant stores were now hopelessly depleted. Lacking any other source of fuel, his systems had turned on itself, extracting what little energy he had left from his own tissue. Remiss of the life-giving water contained in his fish, chronic dehydration had long ago set to purpose wreaking havoc on his vital organs. His old familiar enemy found a home in his lungs and flourished against a vastly weakened immune system. Outwardly, his great size and blanket of blubber subverted attention from the struggle within.
During the night, Keiko’s strength to stay upright and near the surface drained from his body. No longer able to support himself at the surface, he dropped slowly to the darkening depths, finally coming to rest, his massive pecs gently propped on the sea floor. Absolute silence surronded him. As the cold stark deadness of night turned toward the life of day, his life emptied from his body. Once a great and mighty animal, forceful of breath, his last feeble exhale came unanswered by the all-familiar inhale. At this, the end of his long sojourn to freedom, apart from both human or whale, Keiko died". 😭😭😭
Keiko made that decision himself. For him the humans were his "family " because his real family was never found.
YES , TILIKUM , IS THE BEST ORCA , NOT KEIKO !
Willian Ramos screw you
Willian Ramos keiko is the best orca because is was the big star of the movie from free willy movies 1.2&3 so R.I.P keiko I will always love you❤️
I do appreciate that they had both views on! Don't find news balanced like that anymore. It's just propaganda these days
Keiko loves people they is nothing wrong with that
Before Keiko The Orca Whale Passed Away He Was Having A Relationship With His Father and Lord and Savior Jesus Christ He Was Asking God To Set Keiko Free and He Also Asking God To Forgive The People That Came Into Keikos Life In Jesus Name Amen 🙏 Our Dear Friend Keiko The Orca Whale Is Now Free In Heaven And He Is Now A Guardian Angel Watching Over The People That Came Into His Life In Jesus Name Amen 🙏
I think trying to force a wild animal that was captive for most of its life to go free/reintroduce it to the wild by hook or by crook is almost as bad as capturing it. It feels like misguided activism from those people complaining about the setbacks. Clearly it couldn't survive on its own anymore and should've just remained in an enclosure with trainers.
SISTER FAMILY
Leave him alone. Why do we have to control him? He is free now. He would rather live a day free, than "healthy" in captivity. Maybe they can tag him to not be killed. I guess I'm just sick of humans constantly interfering in his life and controlling him.
Keiko loved humans and was so docile and kind he was to far gone to be untrained and released to the wild glad he got his new tank amd sea pen tho.
We tend to stick to what we know =/
It's like a dumped dog or cat. They act feral but when they meet friendly people they often want to be a pet again.
@@d-meth What does your tiny brain not understand?? It's a big difference between a dog and an orca?? And they did all in slow steps. It was a success you uneducated Dummie
@SH Yes that is because you are a brainwashed idiot!! Sorry but it is true!!
Dr. Spong, Really ? Come on ? Clausen , the only one who actually got it !
people get it through your head Keiko was happy being cared for by his human friends he was a beautiful animal who grew up with humans not other orca's these idiot "professionals" who say he was thriveing in the wild please kiss my butt I've watched orcas for the past 18 years of my life from when I was one to now as I'm eighteen I loved that orca a lot I have watched the movies and studied orca's all these years orca's thrive on communication and family bonds based on how pods are in the wild Keiko wanted to be with humans based on how he acted till he died he didn't deserve to die alone
You have ZERO degrees in Marine Biology, Whale medicine or even Veterinary Medicine but YOU of 8 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH. Know exactly what happened to this whale. You’re an idiot.
He did awsome it was sad he forgot to be a whale but ill bet he is 100+happyier then swiming in a pool in new mexico i see it total success
To sent him back was the best for him dont get me wrong.
But of curse that orca is gonna be confused, he got captured when he was only a baby...
Hope pepole really leard a lesson from this..
The damaged suck a wonderfull creature.🖤
This makes me furious and breaks my heart at the same time. So many lies, a life sacrificed all for the ideology of the anti-zoo, anti-animal cult.
Keiko suffered horribly and needlessly for people's ideology and agenda. He didn't fulfill any standard of release, and the release protocol for him strictly said if he was not feeding (he wasn't, and was subsequently starved by his caregivers), if he was not integrating with wild whales (he wasn't, he was terrified of killer whales and they only attacked him), if he could not let go of his bond with humans (he clearly couldn't - the only thing Keiko ever wanted was to be. with. people!), he had to be rescued and put back in human care for the rest of his life.
The evil people of HSUS, like Naomi Rose, made sure that could never happen. It was an illegal act of cruelty that they did, and when he was dead, only a year after his "release" (which amounted only to being left alone out in the ocean due to bad weather, and he followed the current - animals prefer to save energy and be lazy, you know - and swam right back to humans), they made sure to bury him immediately, with no necropsy.
Frida Nyberg, He shouldn't have been taken in the first place but the fact of them wanting to release him alone is a bad idea becouse your right he's lonely and is physically starving himself to get attention, so your right in ways but these Orkas don't need to be in cative in the first place
What was your solution, leave him in the fishbowl with poor care?
How you know all this? He didnt have marks after attack and didnt loos weight, as I heard his trainers said in the media. So he had to eat between Iceland and Norway. And he didnt die alone either, he had his people around. Keiko was sick, maybe becouse he didnt have good immune system. And it is normal whales swim to the coast/land when they are sick. Makes sence Keiko did the same, and also he wanted to be around humans. They didnt know he was sick before the day before he died, he did hide that well couse he was fit. I am sure he died happy.
SEA WORLD PAID A LOT OF LOSER TROLLS TO COMMENT ON THESE VIDEOS. GLAD BLACKFISH IS DESTROYING YOUR BUSINESS !!!
@@ksibru5504 FROM KILLLING KEIKO: "To Keiko, the new world defied recognition. In a moment, he was bathed in playful love. In another moment he was left to his own devices, unpredictable spans of time between. He waited. Always he waited. Eventually they would again acknowledge his presence. In time, they would return. They always returned. He listened. He would meet them at the dock or hear the wanting sound of the small boat being boarded. Maybe he would follow the boat on an adventure. Maybe he would carry them on his back about the bay. He didn’t know what would come. He waited. Hunger kept him company. He was always fungry. Tired. Eternally tired.
Keiko did not look well. Though he conceded to whatever was asked of him and reliably returned the affections of his trainers, he did very little else but rest, stilled at the surface. Day in and day out, he remained inert, scarcely casting a ripple across the glassy surface surrounding him. Keiko, his choice and his needs, were buried under the wreckage created at the convergence of agenda, negligence and ineptitude.
Metabolically Keiko’s body deteriorated. So long had he been minimally nourished, his once abundant stores were now hopelessly depleted. Lacking any other source of fuel, his systems had turned on itself, extracting what little energy he had left from his own tissue. Remiss of the life-giving water contained in his fish, chronic dehydration had long ago set to purpose wreaking havoc on his vital organs. His old familiar enemy found a home in his lungs and flourished against a vastly weakened immune system. Outwardly, his great size and blanket of blubber subverted attention from the struggle within.
During the night, Keiko’s strength to stay upright and near the surface drained from his body. No longer able to support himself at the surface, he dropped slowly to the darkening depths, finally coming to rest, his massive pecs gently propped on the sea floor. Absolute silence surronded him. As the cold stark deadness of night turned toward the life of day, his life emptied from his body. Once a great and mighty animal, forceful of breath, his last feeble exhale came unanswered by the all-familiar inhale. At this, the end of his long sojourn to freedom, apart from both human or whale, Keiko died".
They should have moved him to Seaworld z99% of orcas that have lived over 10 years in captivity would prefer humans over there own kind.
WHICH PRISON WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN. I’M SURE YOU’D PREFER BEING LOCKED IN A CELL WITH APES AS GUARDS WHO FEED YOU PEANUTS FOR DOING TRICKS FOR THE OTHER APES.
free willy Michael Myers
Setting an orca free, after he spent over 20 years in the company of humans since he was 2 and who had never learnt to find food on his own, was cruel. Orcas live in pods and they would not accept him if he wasn’t from their pod. Orcas teach their young where to hunt and find food in the ocean. How did these people expect him to live in the wild when he was never taught to hunt for food? He should have lived out his life in the sanctuary.
This sounded like former trainer just wants him back. Sad....
Kako was probly the worst candidate besides the fact he was dying in a tank and he still did amazing i dont think he would know how to be wild whale and i bet the matriarch of whale pods chased him away he probly wanted to be with whales it takes more then him to be exceptid
Imagin if some ashole wanted to recapture him i think Good lord took him before Humens had time to take him back
Wasn't than rumors about Norway fisherman who said Keiko swan the wrong turn, 5hey don't want him in Norway and he looks so healthy and than suddenly he dies. What a coincidence. I don't believe in such coincidence's. Keiko was a threat to all marine land's and to fisherman. I think somebody killed him because if these reasons.
now its time to free Lolita
No it’s not you tit, these animals are used to captivity and it’s cruel to release them into the wild unable to be accepted by a foreign pod
No way she would feel abondonded looking for humans
...So she can do the same thing Keiko did!
It costs too much money doing what they did to Keiko. Captive orcas -- if they've lived in captivity long enough -- will want human companionship. It makes more sense to train them to entertain PAYING VISITORS.
We need SeaWorlds and Marinelands ...with larger tanks!
(Oh, yeah, and they can free them once in a while -- so that we can witness them coming back to the humans. Put them back in the tanks and let them "earn their pay" entertaining people.)
He died in freedom! Rather that from dying in a small swimingpool!!!! These are wild animals that should live in big oceans. He died happier then he ever was in captivity, thats a fact!!!!
you know he killed him self
+Melissa Gray He died of pneumonia, probably caused of all years in captivity!
You're an idiot
Keiko was never proven to forage for his own food, not even on his three week journey to Norway did stomach content samples prove feeding. He was intentionally fed very sparse meals by his care team in the last couple of years, and almost nothing in Norway, stubbornly holding on to the idea that “once he’s hungry enough, he’ll find food”. He had been sick several winters with pneumonia, and the next winter, in 2003, it finally took his life. He was fed so little that he couldn’t fight off the illness within him, as he had several times before.
(To all those who claim “SeaWorld’s whales must perform, or they’ll starve!” - This is the only whale who has been purposely starved by humans, and it indirectly took his life.)
Keiko never integrated with wild whales.
He never hunted his own food.
He never let go of his attachment to humans.
He never stopped seeking attention from boats.
He was never healthy enough to survive without human care.
The only thing he did do, was swim in the ocean.
That is not a successful release. It is the slow killing of an animal, and lying about it to the public, in order to make money and glory for oneself.
He could have died in the much more spacious tank in Oregon.
What he needed was the stimulus he got from constant interaction with humans whose job it was to interact with him!
He was no longer "wild" after more than a decade in captivity.
POBRECITO KEIKO DESPUES QUE LO ACOSTUMBRARON A ESTAR CIN LOS HUMANOS LO DEVUELVEN AL OCEANI CLARO KEICO SE SINTIO PERDIDO POBRECITO
If this whale had never made a movie and was'nt trained to love and to take food from people know one would give this whale the time of day but because he did the news and every other news reporter all jumped on the band wagon just for a story its so sad realy just how sad and hollow people realy are . were are all these so called whale lovers when blue whales and hump back whales etc etc are being killed buy there 1000s ? they are know were but just because its little old willy from the movie they all want to jump on the willy wagon thing and follow hes story its sickening .
I actually didn't watch the whole video cuz I've seen many others he actually lived five years in the Wild and Free and all captive animals should be put in sanctuaries and then released into the wild they shouldn't be contained in horrible conditions to make money for people
Yup. Sea pens.
Give them a bay and let them learn to be wild.
A group should have it easier than a single one too. An artificial pod. They can split if they want to but at first at least they have each other.
www.amazon.com/Killing-Keiko-Story-Willys-Return/dp/0996077014
@@d-meth How are you going to pay for all that?
I know! ...Put stadium seating around the pens, and have the orcas do tricks with their trainers -- and charge the people money to watch this!!
Just have larger water containments for them!
...Yes, and you can free them into the open sea, ...and they'll come right back!
(MOST captive orcas and dolphins we have are CAPTIVE-BORN !!! Did you know that?)
@@MrJm323 sea pens not open sea 🤦♀️
Yes, most now are captive born, very few of them were wild caught as babies. But what does it have to do with sanctuaries?
And most animal sanctuaries are funded by private donations.
@@d-meth Well, if this is about orcas' wellbeing, then you'd have to explain why you would want some meagre donations instead of adopting the very successful model SeaWorld created. That would generate much more money towards their welfare. (We'd only have to deal with the businessmens' concerns about the location of these these sea pens. But that huge tank they built for Keiko's rehabilitation, in Oregon, looked pretty good! They had an observation window; they just needed to add stadium seating around that large tank -- and, viola! They are in business! They wouldn't need to worry about the loss of funding, like they did with Keiko in 2002.)
"Sanctuaries"? ....That's just an expression. I'm hearing in my mind Charles Laughton (as the Hunchback of Notre Damme, 1930s version) shouting "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" as he holds aloft Maureen O'Hara.
Are they providing sanctuaries to protect them from the great white sharks of the open water or something? ....From the EMBARRASSMENT of the orcas swimming into some harbor or fishing village, giving rides to human children on their backs -- like Keiko did? (Probably the latter, eh?)