Nightline: Keiko Comes Home
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- © 2007 ABC News Productions Inc.
Keiko's rehabilitation and eventual release was the spark that stoked the fire against keeping these large and intelligent animals in captivity. Critics say it was a colossal waste of money and resources for one animal, while others say it was the start of a movement to eventually liberate all captive cetaceans.
For the first effort of its kind, Keiko was an astonishing success. The lack of data on his family meant that he was never able to find them, and thus never able to reintegrate with wild orcas, but he had five wonderful years in natural sea water, surrounded by people who loved him. He learned to dive, to feed himself, and he swam all the way to Norway on his own. Most importantly, he paved the way for success stories like Springer. He proved that it can be done.
8x13Wolf While I never, ever want to see one of these animals in captivity, and I was all for this release, I now have my doubts about whether this was a true success. . .
Yes, they taught him to hunt, and he was free for a while, but there's no doubt he never had a real family after being released. These animals are 100% family based, and never leave their mother nor their pods. To put this ORCA by itself back into the wild after so many years with humans seems almost cruel to me.
When he got to Norway after being freed, what did he do? He followed a boat in, and sought the companionship of people. I think this shows, there's no way an ORCA in captivity this long with no family can truly be released and it be deemed a success.
I think Inger Visser's idea is better. Have a home for them in a natural environment, but with people there to help and be companionship. They have this similar plan for Lolita who's been in captivity since 1970. . .I'm not saying I regret what they did with Keiko, I think it was great. It raised awareness, gave him a better life, not to mention a lot of love. But looking back, I'm not sure it was exactly the correct thing to do with this Whale.
PS: Found this after I wrote this comment. . .www.killingkeiko.com/about/
I miss Keiko.
Thank you so much for uploading this. I had never seen it before.
So devastating to know that poor animal has been neglected and banned from human contact when he didn't know any other kind of contact and didn't have anything to hold on to in this life. Epic American Fiasco! So furious with what humanity did to Keiko.
Me too. and I miss him a lot.
Natalia Eremina Natalia, that's blatantly untrue. Keiko's handlers were with him right up until the last.
Natalia Eremina First off, Keiko shouldn't of never been captured in the first place. Living in a bath tub at water park, performing 3-5 shows a day, year after year. Is not a life for any wild animal. You need to get educated on the subject, before you speak. If you ever have watched any documentary's or movies about Orcas, than maybe then you'd understand why it was the right thing to do to free Keiko. If humans never have captured them in the first place, we wouldn't have to "train" him for the wild. If he would of stayed in the bath tub he wouldn't of lived that much longer there,at least he lived 5 years free. After Keiko was transferred to Norway, Oregon 6-12 months later he gained over 1,000 lbs, his skin was healed 80%, his blood word came back better than ever, and he grew. Just being in a wild type environment healed him. You should be saying it's sad that it took them this long to free him and give him a somewhat normal life like his should've had in the first place. When we capture and prison orcas for human entertainment, we're taking the 2 most important things from them, family and a life of sound. It's really sad to see that humans are to greedy to do the right thing, for the benefit of the Orcas.
I am so confused. I thought Keiko died in 2003?! This can't be from 2007...
The program was released in 1998. The DVD was released back in 2007.