truck1
Growing older but not up.
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2009
lol i completely forgot about Keto, he was Transferred to SWC @ the age of 4yrs. i was thinking Nootka.. SWF had 10 whales at one point. thanks for clearing that up..lol i know more about the current pod than the early 90's one, back when Unna and Tuar were around..lol
I remember when they had the 10 whales there.It wasnt long ago.Maybe 2 or 3 years at the most.The first time I went to DWS,I talked to Amy one of the trainers.(This was when the trainer used to stand at the exit for pics questions etc.I miss that interaction)I asked if they were going to add more pools, since I thought that they could only hold 10 whales, which was what they had at the time.She told me that the pools could hold 22 whales so there was plenty of room, and they werent planning on adding more tanks that she had heard.
It wasnt long after that, that one of the whales was transfered and a calf was born.Maybe 6 months or so.It was like that for a year or so, that they would drop to 9, a calf would be born.Then Kohana, and Skyla went to Texas, with Taku in the same time period,(I dont remember when off hand)and theyve pretty much been at 8 since then.Occasionally 9.I want to say is was the next calf or 2, when they started opening the stadium after about a week after the birth,so the guests could see the new whale, and the whale could get used to people.Theyve slowly added to it to now its a 15 or 20 minute mini show on the birth.
I go to sea world once sometimes twice a month and must have terrible luck because the false killer whale hasnt performed for me in at least 6 months.
Funny you should mention that.Ihadnt noticed for some odd reason that the false kill whales hadnt been in the show until I saw this thread.Ive seen the show enough times that I zone out sometimes anddont pay attention.I think I need to start paying attention again.