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Killer Whale captivity says it all in the name. It is when orcas or killer whales are taken from the wild and put into captivity. Majority of orcas in captivity are used for entertainment purposes like Sea World as a example. Orca captivity do bring issues like massive reduction in life expectancy and the collapse of dorsal fins which isn't ever seen in wild.
80 years and up
yes it survives a hippo
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The killer whale is surprisingly not a whale that Is what is often misleading about them. The killer whale is actually a species of dolphin in the oceanic dolphin family delphinidae the reason it got its name is because people saw the dolphin hunting and killing whales at first the killer whale was called the killer of whales but then it eventually got shortened to killer whale
you heard it here first.
Anthony Hopkins was the first person to ever touch a killer whale.
it ways about 300-400 pounds at birth and the smallest Adult whale is about 2.6 tons and the largest killer whale in captivity is about 12.5 tons
not as long as they do in the wild. Although it is common for captive bred Killer whales not to live as long as they do in the wild, there have been some exceptional cases where they have lived for upto forty years in captivity.
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The whale that killed three people was not Shamu but Tilikum, the largest killer whale in captivity. He has killed two trainers and a park visitor.
The largest animal ever captured and held in captivity is the Killer Whale (Orcinus Orca).