Kasatka

Kasatka (c. 1976 – 15 August 2017) was a wild caught female orca who lived at SeaWorld San Diego.

Kasatka was captured off the southeastern coast of Iceland on 26 October 1978, with another young female whale named Kahana.

The two whales were housed in a sea pen in Grindavík before being shipped to SeaWorld later that year.

[5] She was the first captive cetacean to successively receive artificial insemination, according to John Hargrove, a trainer there.

[6][7] She bore two daughters and two sons, resulting in six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren by the time of her death: