- Nov 9, 2015
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Russia is capturing them and Chinese parks are mostly buying them. SeaWorld had already said they wouldn't use genetics from the Russian captured whales or their descendants back when they were seeking approval for the Blue World in California. There are several males outside of SeaWorld parks who they were likely to breed with in the future, a couple of them are too young still, but they have gotten so far in research that they could have preserved DNA for a long time in order to breed more as long as the whales weren't related.I don't know. I'm not sure how accurate Wikipedia is but according to them there are less then 50 orcas in captivity around the world. I don't know big of a breeding pool they can get from that. That is why I said they would have to work with Russia and China because I heard they are still building SeaWorld like parks and are still capturing orcas from the wild.