The BriefOSHA cited SeaWorld Orlando and fined them $16,550 after a trainer was injured during a September 2024 training ...

For allowing employees to work in close contact with the whale, exposing them to the potential for bites, struck-by and ...

SeaWorld Orlando is facing a hefty fine after an employee was injured by a killer whale during a training exercise in ...

It’s not clear whether the orca is a true albino or its white coloring was caused by another medical condition.

Washington (CNN)-- In 2002, a male killer whale, or orca, who had been on public display in concrete tanks for 19 years, swam off on his own into the Atlantic Ocean. Keiko, the star of the movie ...

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She heard that biologists were starting orca safaris in Norway and volunteered to work on their boats. On her first day a male orca’s tall dorsal fin pierced the water beside the rubber dinghy ...

Their tactics have been consistent. Some, principally the smaller ones, distract the humpback mother whilst the large male orca use their heads like battering rams to kill the young humpbacks.

One 2014 study determined that a captive male orca spent almost 70 percent of his time nearly motionless. This is in contrast to studies from 2011, 2012, and 2013 showing free-ranging orcas may travel ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined SeaWorld's Florida location after a killer whale trainer ...