a sad story

A sad story came to an end when Keiko succomed to pneumonia and died off of the Norway coast this weekend. Keiko ("Lucky One" in Japanese) had a very difficult life. His death was apparently quick.



An orca's brain is four times the size of a human's. I don't know much about the whale mind, but I hope that Keiko died thinking about his rescuers, his trek across the Atlantic, and the Norway fjords, and not his many years of captivity in 12 ft. tank in a Mexican amusement park.