| yaka was taken from her mother A8 in B.C. waters in Dec of 69. she was captured with nepo who was most likely her cousin or brother. they were both sent to marineworld in california where they joined kianu. but it seemed kianu didnt like yaka to much and would show repeated aggression towards her. one day during a show performance kianu rammed yaka's side and left inch-deep bleeding rake marks. kianu was then sold to a park in japan. inthe 1970's nepo and yaka starred in the movie "ORCA". in the movie they played as orcas in love but the male(nepo) got killed by a hunter and the female(yaka) set out to avenge her mates death. in july of 1980 nepo died for real and yaka was left alone with a dolphin named bayou, for 3 months, then vigga was sent to marine world. vigga and yaka became life time friends but on october29 of 97 yaka died ending her 28 years in captivity and left vigga alone. |
