Tillikum the killer whale

Dave Robertson tuktiwawa at NETSCAPE.NET
Fri Apr 13 05:56:56 UTC 2001


Kloshe polaklie,

Who knew?  Sea World in Orlando, Florida has an 11,000-pound male killer
whale named Tillikum.  He is the father of the soon-to-be-born first
artificially inseminated baby orca.  Tillikum (evidently a relatively
friendly killer whale) was trained to roll on his back long enough for
handlers to obtain semen samples, which were sent 3,000 miles away to
California.  The mother (14 months pregnant at this time) is named Kasatka,
and lives at Sea World in San Diego.

This is from a news service story of last weekend.

Dave



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