Free Willy

animal-behavior

Willy the orca is best known as the star of the 1993 family film Free Willy, but the real whale beneath the story was a Northern Resident orca named Keiko. This evergreen explai...

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animal-performance case studies

As of the most recent verifiable information, the actor who played Willy in the Free Willy film series is Keiko, an Icelandic-trained orca who performed the iconic role. Keiko p...

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Animals & Wildlife

Keiko is a male beluga whale best known as the star of the 1993 film Free Willy. He was captured as a young whale in Icelandic waters in 1979 and sold into captivity, eventually...

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