Lovey's Calf Named "Luna"

Today it was announced that Lovey's calf, born all the way back on July 19th at Kamogawa Sea World in Japan, has got a name! That name is Luna, which was decided in a contest where 18,588 people submitted names for the calf. She is now roughly 2.8m long and weights in at about 280kg. They chose the name Luna from the submitted names because they want the little orca to shine forever. The person who submitted the name also gets a pair of tickets of Port of Nagoya, a twin room at the hotel near Nagoya, a room for 5 at the Kamogawa Sea World's hotel, a stuffed orca, a year's membership to the "Dolphin Dream Club" for 4 people and free visits for a year to Kamogawa SeaWorld. Here's a rough translation of what was written on Kamogawa's website:

""Luna" female was born as the second child of "Lovey" on July 19.
The image of a "month" relevant "Earth" Both of elder brother, from being a girly nickname has decided to "Luna".  
Such as "Moon" to Luna, the hope that illumines forever, they have grown to be loved by everyone orca.
 Winners Wanted baby orca nicknamed
Material of Luna
Date of birth: 24 minutes at 6:00 on Thursday afternoon, July 19, 2012
Gender: Female
Body length: About 200cm
Body weight: About 200kg
Mother: (Born January 11, 1998) age 14 years old "Rabbie", weight / 5.1m length / 2,200 kg
Father: Estimated age 27 years "Oscar", weight / 5.8m length / 3,200 kg 

Nicknamed determined this time, prepare a nice prizes at random from among the people who have applied for (Luna) Luna!
The winner is the following people!
<Grand prize>
     Nagoya Shinkansen round trip ticket set pair 1 ⇔ Tokyo
     1 pair set your admission ticket Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
     1 pair set twin room Hotel Com's Nagoya hotel voucher
     Up to 5 people per room voucher Kamogawa Sea World Hotel
     Admission will be free of Kamogawa Sea World for one year
     4 people min membership card "Dolphin Dream Club" (family members)
     Stuffed orca
Solo
     Mr. Sakuma Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture
<Prize>
     Admission will be free of Kamogawa Sea World for one year
     One person membership card "Dolphin Dream Club" (General Member)
     Stuffed orca
5 people
     Mr. Ozawa Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture
     Mr. Sugimoto, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
     Mr. Suzuki, Kisarazu, Chiba
     Mr. Toda-gun, Yamanashi Prefecture Nakakoma
     Mr. Miyoshi Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture
To those who are elected, the personnel will contact you again.
Thank you much for your application in the recruitment of orca nicknamed baby, thank you."

Sorry that all of that makes so little sense.
I also found a link to some nice photos of Luna by Kamogawa Sea World:
www.kamogawa-seaworld.jp/n_special/photo.html

Source: www.kamogawa-seaworld.jp/n_special/godfather.html

"Simply Orca" is now "Orca Worldwide"

Due to the fact that someone has accused me of "copying" a YouTube username, the "Simply Orca" blog has been renamed to "Orca Worldwide".

Morgan Confirmed to be Deaf

Loro Parque, Tenerife, has today announced that, after a hearing test (audiogram), Morgan has been confirmed to be deaf. This could possibly explain why she is bullied so much by the other orcas at Loro Parque. But, does this mean that her chance of being released into the wild is 0? Because if she's deaf, surely she won't be able to survive in the wild? The Dutch court's decision is due soon, so we can only wait to find out...

Here are some videos:

-Emma

Sources: www.orcahome.de/orcanews.htm
www.youtube.com/loroparquetenerife

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-Emma