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A pacific harbour seal pup has been rescued.


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The first penguins ever to be conceived through artificial insemination:
SeaWorld San Diego Unveils Penguin Breeding Program Success | NBC 7 San Diego
Aquatica has opened: http://seaworldparks.com/en/aquatica-sandiego

 

Pacific Point (seal/sea lion exhibit) reopened a week ago after the rockwork was enhanced.
Also, an orca was born on Valentine's Day!
New Baby Killer Whale Makes It Ten at SeaWorld San Diego - ZooBorns

 

12 Caraibian flamingos hatched at San Diego SeWorld :
July 13, 2013
A Dozen Fluffy Flamingo Chicks for SeaWorld San Diego

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Twelve Caribbean Flamingo chicks have hatched at SeaWorld San Diego in the past three weeks! The chicks are being hand-raised by aviculturists in SeaWorld’s Avian Center.

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Photo Credit: SeaWorld San Diego
Flamingos lay a single egg on a muddy mound, and both parents care for the chick for up to six years, when the young reach maturity. Though adult Flamingos are pink, the chicks have downy white feathers. The birds’ pink coloration comes from pigments in the aquatic organisms that they eat.

Caribbean Flamingos are also known as American Flamingos. They are native to some Caribbean Islands, coastal Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia, as well as the Galapagos Islands.
Sourse : Zooborns

 

Does anyone know if the common seal are a pure subspecies at San Diego Seaworld?

 

Does anyone have information on the new entrance project? It is due to open in March of 2014 and the link below has several artistic images of the complex. Has construction already begun?

SeaWorld San Diego to remake its entry plaza as 'Explorer's Reef'

 

Yes construction started early this year with set-up of a temporary entrance off to one side of the former entrance.

 

Happy Birthday Orkid !!

Orkid was the first orca successfully born at the park, and the second captive born orca to survive for more than a few weeks.

She is now 25 years old, and in roughly a month will officially be the oldest captive born orca ever.(Sadly the first captive born orca to survive, Kalina, died in 2010 at the age of 25)

 

Court case news:

SeaWorld appeal could force taming of its popular orca shows after trainer's death

 

Two rumors about seaworld

(11/19/13) SeaWorld San Diego has announced that they believe that their 18-year old polar bear Szenja (pronounced SIN-jah) is pregnant. How do they know she is pregnant? Ask Elvis. Yes… Elvis, a trained beagle who is able to sniff at “fecal samples” from polar bears from around North America and has indicated that Szenja is pregnant.

Rumor 2 which supposedly is on hold for the time being.
While SeaWorld San Diego is busy building the park’s new main gate / entry area for 2014, I’ve heard about a possible new plan in place for 2015. From what I’m told nothing has been finalized yet, but it seems the park was already looking into remodeling their own Penguin Encounter attraction into their own version of Orlando’s Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin attraction.
However, due to the less than satisfactory guests response to the ride portion of the Orlando attraction, the San Diego version may opt to cut out that part of the plan. Instead they would remodel the overall area around the existing Penguin Encounter attraction and put extra money into making the walk-through animal habitat portion even bigger and better than the Orlando version. Much like in Orlando, they would build the new Penguin attraction on the frame of the existing habitat. If approved, we could see this happen as early as 2015 or 2016.

 

Would someone be able to provide a species list of the marine mammals and birds at Sea World SD? Thanks!

 

from facebook

A Polar Bear Cub May be on the Way!!!

Hey Fans, keep your fingers crossed, but we are hopeful that Szenja, our beautiful 18-year-old polar bear at Wild Arctic, is pregnant. She is showing strong signs of maternity - significant weight gain, creating a nest in her den and is becoming more finicky about the food she’ll eat. And most interestingly, a dog named Elvis thinks she’s pregnant (yes, you heard that right). Elvis has been trained to tell if a polar bear is pregnant simply by sniffing fecal samples (you heard that right too!!)! Our keepers have started an around-the-clock watch on Szenja, who made a breeding visit to the Pittsburgh Zoo earlier this year.

For those wondering, seaworld has three bears at the san diego site, 2 females and a male.

 

Mammals :

7.18 Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus truncatus)
1.2 Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus gilli)
2.8.1 "Seaworld" Bottlenose (T.t.truncatus x T.t.gilli)
0.1 Long Beaked Common x Atlantic Bottlenose Hybrid (Delphinus capensis x Tursiops truncatus truncatus)
1.2 Pacific Short Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
1.2 Commerson's Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)
2.3 Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)
5.5 Orca (Orcinus Orca) of the following ecotypes:

0.1 Northern Resident
0.1 Northern Resident x Icelandic
1.1 Southern Resident x Icelandic
1.0 Argentinian Transient x Icelandic
3.2 Icelandic


Sea Otters (0.4 I think)
?.? California Sea Lion
1.1 Guadalupe Fur Seal
?.? Harbour Seal
?.? Asian Small Clawed Otter
1.1 Pacific Walrus
0.1 Polar Bear

 

Now I don't have a complete list of birds, and I far from know exact sexes, however I have a fairly good idea of what they all have :

Emperor Penguin
King Penguin
Gentoo Penguin
Macaroni Penguin
Adelie Penguin
Magellanic Penguin
Humboldt Penguin

Scarlet Macaw
Blue and Gold Macaw
Green Wing Macaw
Red Fronted Macaw
Military x Scarlet Hybrid

Great Argus Pheasant
Storms Stork
Chestnut Breasted Malkoha
Grey Crowned Crane
Scarlet Ibis
American White Ibis
Nene Goose
Caribbean Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
Hooded Crane
Marble Teal
Rosy Billed Pochard
Hooded Merganser
Rock Pigeon
Skua
Brant's Cormorant
Black Vulture
Eurasian Eagle Owl
0.0.2 Emu


I know there is a few others (mainly waterfowl) I am forgetting, and I'll re-post if I remember any.

 

Thanks for the info FWC, good to know what's there.

 

No problem , always glad to help

I was genuinely surprised with the large number of birds they have either on or off display, rather strange for an ocean teamed park, but interesting none the less.

Oh, also I remembered another species, refer to the list above.

 

@FWC: Do you know when the last "pure" Delphinus capensis died?

 

Yup, the last capensis was "Cooper", who was also the father of the hybrid. He died in 1996.

However, there were two short beaked common's (D.delphis) that lived at San Diego as well. A male from '96-'07, and a female from '00-'02. Shame the female didn't live longer and that they didn't produce any offspring.

They also has a male D.delphis in for several months this year, however it was released a few weeks ago.

 

Do you know the number of Storms storks FWC ?

 

They had a pair of them on display, and after going through the large majority of the park both on and off exhibit it was the only pair I saw.

They did however, have a large set of aviaries behind the penguin building that I was un-able to look into, and they could have had all sorts of goodies in there.