Blue World Habitat Expansion Rebuttal CCC Hearing October 8, 2015 Item Th14a
2 Reproductive Age of Wild Female Orca at First Live Calf’s Birth
Known mothers age at first live birth
4 Separation Video
5 Orca Average of Death
69 deaths 37 deaths Average age of known wild orca compared to SeaWorld orca
7 Orca Injuries
Northern Resident A5 Pod-A23 Matriline A Died at 50 years old A23 (F) “Stripe” Died at 52 years old A16 (F) Corky Alive 51 years old A21 (U) Died at 6 years old A27 (M) “Okisollo” Died at 29 years old A29 (U) Died at 3 years old A43 (F) “Ripple” 1981 Alive 34 years old A63 (U) Died at 1 years old A69 (F) “Midsummer” 1997 Alive 18 years old A95 (U) “Fern” 2009 Alive 6 years old A ? (U) 2014 New Calf A60 (M) “Fife” 1992 Alive 23 years old Struck by ferry boat & died Struck by boat propeller 2003 Struck by boat propeller 2015 Injuries happen in the wild
9 Boat strikes on wild orca
10 Injury of a wild orca
11 Nakai today