{"id":1089,"date":"2012-09-25T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/09\/25\/incredible-dolphin-birth-at-dolphin-quest-hawaii\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T20:44:39","slug":"incredible-dolphin-birth-at-dolphin-quest-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/incredible-dolphin-birth-at-dolphin-quest-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Dolphin Birth at Dolphin Quest Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">A baby dolphin was born yesterday (Monday, September 17, 2012) at Dolphin Quest Hawaii, located at the Hilton Waikoloa Village.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">It&#8217;s the first baby for proud dolphin mom, 12-year-old Keo. Dolphin Quest trainers were in the water during the dolphin birth to observe and comfort the new dolphin mom. Dolphins Pele (the new baby&#8217;s grandmother) and Noelani (the baby&#8217;s aunt) were also in the Dolphin Quest lagoon to keep Keo company.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The baby, a female calf, and mom are both well and wonderful. The baby dolphin began nursing within four hours of birth. About 50 people gathered around the Hilton&#8217;s Dolphin Quest lagoon to witness the rarely-seen event. Keo was in labor for approximately one hour.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The first 30 days of a newborn dolphin&#8217;s life are the most critical. Dolphin Quest trainers will continue round-the-clock watch over the pair, recording nursing and respiration rates, and making sure that Keo is well-fed and hydrated. Over that period, Keo&#8217;s new baby will be introduced to the other nine dolphins at Dolphin Quest Hawaii. After the initial 30 day care period, trainers will select a name for the new baby girl.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Visitors can see the new baby swimming with mom at Dolphin Quest Hawaii at Hilton Waikoloa Village.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Keo&#8217;s calf is the 18th dolphin baby and the first second-generation calf to be born at the conservation and education-dedicated marine park since Dolphin Quest opened in 1988<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"500\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"375\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6jCJiO75pxo?version=3&#038;hl=el_GR&#038;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6jCJiO75pxo?version=3&#038;hl=el_GR&#038;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby dolphin was born yesterday (Monday, September 17, 2012) at Dolphin Quest Hawaii, located at the Hilton Waikoloa Village. It&#8217;s the first baby for proud dolphin mom, 12-year-old Keo. Dolphin Quest trainers were in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}