Who is Free Willy?
You may just know him as ‘that whale from Free Willy’ but in fact his real name is Keiko and he has a story to tell. Below we have documented the story of Keiko’s life so far (researched from Keiko’s Foundation and other organisations). Keiko was born in Iceland in 1977/78 making him twenty years young. When he was around one years old he was captured and taken to Saedyrasfnid an Aquarium in Iceland. Three years later (1982) he was bought by a Marineland in Ontario, Canada where he performed before the public, he began to get skin lesions at this point on his body. In 1985 he was then sold onto Reino Adventura in Mexico for a measly some of $350,000. Where he began to perform again. In 1992 Warner Brothers begin making the first Free Willy film, on location in Mexico, filming Keiko. After the film is release the public lean on Warner Brothers to do something about the living conditions of Keiko after alarming reports in the media relating to his “inadequate living conditions, and chron
