Corky
Corky (II) is a female orca from the A5 pod in British Columbia, Canada. She currently lives at SeaWorld San Diego in California. Corky became the first orca to become pregnant and give birth in captivity. On February 28, 1977, the first calf to be born alive in captivity was born at Marineland to Corky and Orky. The calf was a male and died after eighteen days. Corky went on to give birth six more times, but the longest surviving calf lived only a total of 47 days. The calf, a female, was named Kiva.
In 1989, the dominant orca at the park, Kandu V, attempted to "rake" Corky, showing dominance by forcefully scratching with her teeth. Kandu charged at Corky, attempting to rake her; she missed and continued swimming into the back pool, where she ended up ramming the wall, fatally rupturing an artery in her own jaw.
Corky is easily identified thanks to her tall, straight dorsal fin, her pointed eyepatches, and her large size for a female being 19 ft. long and weighing in at 8,000 LBs. She also tends to swim upside down in the pools. She has lived in captivity for more than 40 years, the longest period of captivity of any orca. Calls to release her have been heard since the early 1990s.
Read more about this topic: List Of Captive Orcas, Individual Orcas