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Gender: Female
Length and Weight: 19 feet and 8,100 pounds
Presumed Age: 44                                 Collected: December 11, 1969 in British Columbia, Canada
Parks: Marineland of the Pacific and SeaWorld California
Breed: 100% Northern Resident

Corky is the oldest orca at any SeaWorld Park. She has adopted a number a calves since 1989 even though she has had none of her own. She is considered to be a very gentle and sweet whale for her age. She is blind on one eye and is on medications for liver, kidney and bladder problems. She loves to interact with guests holding toy orcas behind the glass. She is a very reliable performer but is a lower ranking orca. She spends most of her time with Sumar, Nakai, and Kalia(although she is still very close with Orkid) and can punish them is she needs to. She will avoid adults including Ulises who she rarlely gets along with. Corky is a reliable performer and performs water-work with all her trainers.

Gender: Female
Length and Weight: 17 feet and 5,300 pounds
Presumed Age: 33                                   Collected: October 1978 in Iceland
Parks: SeaWorld Ohio, SeaWorld Florida, SeaWorld Texas, and SeaWorld California
Breed: 100% Icelandic

Kasatka is the matriarch of SeaWorld San Diego. She is one of four living orca grandmothers in captivity(the other three living captive orcas who are grandmothers are Katina and Kalina at SeaWorld Orlando and Stella at Kamogawa Sea World). Although she is a good performer, she can be very moody and will sometimes detect what other orcas or even her own handlers do--She is a very dominate female. Kasatka was the very first killer whale to be successfully artificially inseminated and produce a healthy calf out of it. She is very good at doing behaviors that is asked to do by her trainers and enjoys the trusts she has with them. Kasatka and Kalia share a very strong bond but can be very controlling over her. She is a very smart, and picks up a new signal fast. She was used for water-work up untill 2006 when she attacked her trainer Ken Peters and injured him, leaving her suspended from all waterwork. She now does drywork in shows.

Daughters: Takara and Kalia
Son: Nakai
Granddaughter: Kohana
Grandson: Trua

Gender: Male
Length and Weight: 20 feet and 9,500 pounds
Presumed Age: 30
Captured: November 1980 in Iceland
Parks: Rioleon Safari, Spain; Aquarama Barcelona, Spain; and SeaWorld California
Breed: 100% Icelandic

Ulises, is the lowest ranking member of the SeaWorld San Diego Shamu family. He has fallen to many beatings by everybody expect Corky. He does have a dominant personality, but is under Sumar and Nakai and if he is given the chance, he might try to become dominant over Corky but gets beaten sorely if her does. He likes to hang out with Kalia and Orkid or even be alone with his trainer Pete. He is a reliable performer and is performs either alone or with another orca. He is also one of the very few male orcas to allow trainers to do water-work with. Despite having the dominant personality, Ulises is very sweet towards his trainers.

Mother: unknown
Father: unknown

Gender: Female
Length and Weight: 18 feet and 6,300 pounds
Age: 21                                                     Date of Birth: September 23, 1988
Parks: SeaWorld California
Breed: 50% Northern Resident and 50% Icelandic

Orkid was the first killer whale to be born at SeaWorld San Diego. She is the second dominant killer whale at the park and she is a very intelligent and smart whale. She can get moody one in a while with her trainers and has sometimes disrupted shows by doing her own thing. She gets along with all the orcas but spends more time with Kasatka and her two calves, Nakai and Kalia. Orkid has been adopted by Corky ever since she was orphaned at 11 months of age and still spends time with her. She is a complicated whale, and only professional trainers can do water-work with her with the right experience to successfully work with her. Because Orkid is a very smart whale, she knows over 300 signals and learn quicker than other whales(next to Kasatka).

Gender: Male
Length and Weight: 16 feet and 4,000 pounds
Age: 11                                                               Date of Birth: May 14, 1998
Parks: SeaWorld Florida, SeaWorld Ohio, and SeaWorld California
Breed: 75% Icelandic and 25% Transient

 Sumar is a great whale but, he is not solid during shows and dose not put effort in certain behaviors. He will dump trainers off from time to time and he is a cooperative and an okay performer. He is often seen with his favorite toy waffle in the back pools with Corky and Orkid. Sumar is a very sweet whale who loves his trainers and very vocal. He gets along with Nakai very well and the two can be seen playing together.

Mother: Taima
Father: Tilikum
Sister: Malia
Brother: Tekoa
Half-sisters: Nyar*, Unna, Kohana, and Skyla
Half-brothers: Kyuqout, Taku*, Tuar, Nakai, and Ikaika
Neice: Nalani
Nephew: Trua
Grandmother: Gudrun*
Grandfather: Kanduke*
Aunts: Katerina* and Nyar*

Gender: Male
Length and Weight: 14 feet and 3,000 pounds
Age: 8                                                              Date of Birth: September 1, 2001
Parks: SeaWorld California
Breed: 100% Icelandic

Nakai was the very first captive orca to be conceived and successfully born through artificial insemination. He is a very playful whale who often shows trainers which behaviors he wants to perform next. He is very trusting and gentle towards trainers and is used for water-work. Nakai gets along with all the other whales in his tank and can be seen with his mother Kasatka or playing with his half-sister Kalia. He is manly seen hanging out with his half-brother Sumar and Corky too. He is often interacting in the Shamu closeup pool, interacting with guests.

Mother: Kasatka
Father: Tilikum
Half-sisters: Takara, Nyar*, Unna, Kohana, Skyla, Kalia, and Malia
Half-brothers: Kyuqout, Taku*, Sumar, Tuar, Tekoa, and Ikaika
Neices: Kohana and Nalani
Nephew: Trua

Gender: Female
Length and Weight: 7 feet and 1,200 pounds
Age: 5                                               Date of Birth: December 21, 2004
Parks: SeaWorld California
Breed: 87.5% Icelandic and 12.5% Southern Resident

Kalia is the first fourth generation killer whale calf to be born in captivity. While her great-grandmother is Katina(SWF), and her grandmother is Kalina(SWF, original baby Shamu), her father is Keet(SWT), the first third generation killer whale calf to be born in captivity. Kalia is such a cutie with a wonderful curious and playful personality. At three years old, Kalia is a very smart calf and is learning behaviors from both her mother and the trainers very easily. She is starting to be trained for water-work and may sometimes take the limelight and perform show segments by herself. Kalia is mainly seen with her mother Kasatka and has a close bond with her. She is often playing with Nakai and Sumar, and may sometimes spend time with Ulises and Orkid.

Mother: Kasatka
Father: Keet
Half-sisters: Takara and Halyn*
Half-brother: Nakai
Grandmother: Kalina
Grandfather: Kotar*
Great-Grandmother: Katina
Great-Grandfather: Winston*
Aunts: Takara, Skyla, and Nalani
Great-Aunt: Kalina, Katerina*, and Unna
Uncles: Keto and Tuar
Great-Uncles: Taku* and Ikaika
Neice: Kohana
Nephew: Trua
Cousins: Kohana and Trua