Newborn Dolphin (2024-2024)
Obituary
A newborn dolphin calf died at SeaWorld San Antonio just before she would have turned one month old.
She had not yet been given a name by the venue, but given that it is known that bottlenose dolphins have names for each other, it’s possible her mother had given her a name before she passed. Her mother, 36-year-old Piquet, was captured of the coast of California in 1993 and has spent most of her life between the notorious Miami Seaquarium and the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. She birthed two calves while at Shedd and suffered a miscarriage in 2019.
Her calf’s birth was celebrated as part of a recent “baby boom” at SeaWorld San Antonio with several captive animal births at the venue, including a harbor seal, a California sea lion, a tortoise, a beluga whale, and a second Pacific white-sided dolphin.
If you love whales and dolphins, our advice is simple: don’t buy a ticket to see them in captive performances. Protect marine animals by supporting the SWIMS Act, which would phase out the exploitation of orcas, beluga whales, pilot whales, and false killer whales by making it illegal to capture and breed these animals for public display.
