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== External links ==
* Archived: [https://web.archive.org/web/20230818205134/https://inherentlywild.co.uk/amayas-gallery/ Amaya's Gallery] Inherently Wild
* Archived: [https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.seaworldofhurt.com/orca-amaya-dead-seaworld/ Did SeaWorld’s Carelessness Kill Orca Amaya? ‘It Could Have Been Avoided,’ a Whistleblower Told PETA] PETA
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Revision as of 20:52, 18 August 2023

Amaya
SpeciesOrcinus orca
SexFemale
BornDecember 2, 2014
SeaWorld San Diego, California, USA
DiedAugust 19, 2021
SeaWorld San Diego, California, USA
Cause of deathUnspecified gastrointestinal disease
Parent(s)♀ Kalia ♂ Unknown / Ulises?

Amaya was a 6-year-old female orca who was born in captivity at SeaWorld San Diego.

On the 2nd December 2014 captive born female Kalia gave birth to her first calf; a female later named Amaya and possibly sired by the Icelandic male Ulises.

Due to Kalia having only been 9 years old when her pregnancy was announced, some controversy and intense criticism ensued and some began questioning what kind of a mother she would be at this age, as well as why SeaWorld had been artificially inseminating such a young orca.

Amaya died unexpectedly on the 19th August 2021 from an unspecified gastrointestinal disease.

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