The majority of you realize that keeping large, wild animals in confined spaces for our amusement is the wrong thing to do. So lately we have tried to change our wrong-doings by releasing animals like killer whale Keiko (a.k.a. Free Willy,) back into the wild. The average life span of a Killer Whale is about 35 years. And that's for a whale that has been treated a lot better than Keiko. Keiko lived to be 27.
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What's so bad about trying to right our wrongs? Well, Keiko had been in captivity since he was two. Marineworld in Mexico.Keiko's Return To the "Wild" 1j152w
It was soon decided that Keiko should be released back into the wild, near where he was born. It would take many years of rehabilitation, a ton of money and manpower. Keiko was finally moved to a fjord off Iceland in 1998. Although he did venture out into the colds due to stress. Volunteers didn't want to feed Keiko, trying to force him to survive on his own but the whale just wouldn't hunt for himself.Keiko Moves to the Big Ocean in the Sky 19py
On December 13th, 2003 Keiko died of pneumonia in the coastal waters of Norway. He was freedom before he died. Unfortunately this is not the case for the dozens of other Orcas still held in captivity around the world.Related Stories:
