Morgan, the only female orca at Loro Parque on the Spanish island of Tenerife, has given birth for the second time; this time, it’s a male. Morgan’s first calf, who was female and named Ula, was separated from Morgan shortly after birth and died at the facility before her third birthday. At Loro Parque, four orcas have died since 2021.
The latest calf is yet unnamed, and this is an orca birth we are not celebrating as given time, if the youngster survives he will live out his life performing for the paying public. Marine Connection campaigns director Margaux Dodds comments; “Orcas do not deserve to be born into an artificial world that bears little or no resemblance to the life they would enjoy had they been born in the wild. This young calf does not belong in a concrete tank. It is time to phase out the breeding of orcas and dolphins simply for profit and public entertainment, this must be the last generation of cetaceans made to endure the mental and physical suffering that confinement causes.”
