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Keijo, a son from incest

Keijo, a son from incest

Mis à jour le 06 December 2019

Keijo, son from incest between brother and sister, was rejected by his mother. Then he was the helpless spectator of the deaths of many of his companions in misfortune. His future will not be bright if he remains captive.

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Keijo is a male killer whale born in Marineland on November 20th, 2013. His mother Wikie and his father Valentin. That makes him a consanguineous child at 12.5%, since Wikie and Valentin were half-sister and half-brother.

Incestuous relationships, observed only in the pool, remain a major problem for most large marine parks. Taku, at SeaWorld Orlando, impregnated her own mother Katina, who gave birth to Nalani in 2006. At Loro Park, Kohana was fertilized twice by her uncle, then she refused to take care of her children. Under these conditions of promiscuity and captivity, how do we educate the little ones? The mothers seem helpless. Is it the same for Keijo?

In any case, we could see Wikie pushing him away from the side of the pool with the help of Moana. It was, as the delphinarium assures, to exercise the orca on the slide-out manoeuvre, that deadly posture where the cetacean runs itself aground on command. Rather, it seems that Wikie had some difficulty accepting her second son, who arrived too early after the birth of the first, which would not have happened in the wild.

Like Moana, Keijo is eager to learn, and he learns quickly. But the intellectual challenges that one asks of him are limited and repetitive. He has already lost the excitement of childhood by banging on the windows, and the flood of October 2015 certainly marked his memory like a hot iron. The first pictures shot just after the disaster showed him very close against the side of Wikie and his half-brother Inouk, in a small black water pool, while the dead body of Valentin had just been washed away. All this, like the agony of Freya, Valentin's mother, the two little ones saw it. They will not forget it.

However, a site promoting zoos dared to write about the birth of Keijo:

"On 20th November 2013, a new orca infant was born for the second time from the efforts of Wikie at Marineland Antibes. His father is unknown, but there is a strong suspicion that it is his half-brother, Valentin. This brings the number of orcas in captivity to 53, and with the recent addition of 8 wild orcas captured in Russia, as well as the female Morgan, saved by the Dolfinarium of Harderwijk and 2 babies born remotely by the orca Kshamenk this year, the future of these animals in captivity is radiant ".

Oh yes, radiant ...

Yvon Godefroid
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In the subject

The court prohibit Marineland from relocating the orcas before the end of the independent assessment Moana has just died in the chlorinated Marineland prison, the only place he has seen in his twelve years of life. One Voice is going to court again

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dany | Friday 15 June 2018

Les delphinariums ne sont que souffrances pour ces animaux si majestueux sensibles et doués d'intelligence. Je ne comprends pas qu'on ne puisse voir la détresse de ces animaux, honte à l'homme qui encore une fois, engendre la tyrannie et l'esclavage sur des êtres qui sont 10 fois supérieurs à nous.

mumu | Friday 15 June 2018

Je fais confiance à One Voice, qui respecte l'animal en tant qu'être vivant unique, assez d'indifférence, de barbarie et de méchanceté, défendons les animaux avec notre coeur, on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur disait Saint-Exupéry !

ROYER-TORNEY Jacqueline | Friday 15 June 2018

Comme tant de vos articles,ce cas est une nouvelle fois monstrueux.A bas les delphinariums,les animaux sauvages dans les cirques,les animaux de laboratoires etc,etc...Et tout ceci pour quoi ? Pour faire de L'ARGENT !...
Mais continuons la lutte et courage à One Voice.

TERREOCEANE | Friday 15 June 2018

BONJOUR,
Beaucoup de mauvaises nouvelles à chaque lettre d'information..
Je rejoins les commentaires précédents hélas !
Quand se rejoignent les décisions politiques/parcs d'attractions avec animaux ou encore cirques avec animaux et donc INTÉRÊTS D ARGENT et/ou RECONNAISSANCE MÉDIATIQUE, les animaux trinquent.
A quand le revers de la médaille ? l'humanité contrainte de vivre sous les décisions des animaux ? pure fiction ou réalité ultérieure..