Talk:Keiko (orca)

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Contents 1 Proof of health? 2 What is a veterinary chaplain?? 3 Lack of an image 4 "Whale" 5 Origin of Keiko's name 6 Keiko "Captured

[edit] Proof of health?

Does anyone have any roports/articles of his development of skin lesions at Marineland Canada. They don't appear on the official timeline at keiko.com whereas other health information does. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Typhoid boy (talk • contribs) 08:39, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is a veterinary chaplain??

See subject. Is this seriously a real job?

[edit] Lack of an image

There's no image for Keiko, despite the fact that he is one of the most famous orcas there is. There has to be a non-copyrighted image of him. Anyone have such an image, or willing to volunteer one they took when he was at the Oregon Coast Aquarium? 69.59.212.172 00:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I think I might have one; I'll ask the next time I go home if we still have a digital copy of it. It was taken while he was at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Titanium Dragon 01:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Whale"

Killer whales belong to the dolphin family. Which belong to the cetacean family and are technically whales, but you wouldn't point to a bottlenosed dolphin and call it a whale, would you? If no one has a convincing reason to keep the word "whale" in the article (when not prefaced by "killer", of course), I'll go ahead and change it to "orca". Any objections? Loma Prieta 08:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of Keiko's name

Anybody know? I doubt anybody would give a male orca a female name if they knew any better. 71.217.67.204 17:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC) -Keiko is Japanese for "blessed child." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.110.74 (talk) 17:22, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Keiko "Captured

According to the fishermen that found Keiko he was alone (his pod left him). I would call it rescued more than captured (a young Orca his age wouldn't live long by himself). ^_~ Smileyface 12 91 22:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)