In
order to get the most out of the website please make note of some of
the most common abbreviations and terms used throughout.
We've tried
to be consistent however in some cases multiple abbreviations will
refer to the same animals facility or situation.
How to Read the Inventories:
| PICTURE |
A
thumbnail linking to a larger picture of the animal. If no
picture of the animal is available a "No Image Yet" placeholder will
appear.
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| NAME |
The
animals name as assigned by its holding facility. If an
animal
has been re-named the name written will be their current name with
older names appearing in parentheses. ex. Gibbs (Stormy)
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| ID
# |
The
animals identification number as assigned by its holding facility or
owner. Current numbers will be represented like names with
older
variations or doubles either slashed or in parentheses.
|
| SEX |
The animals
gender, if known.
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| ACQUISTION
DATE: |
The
date when the animal entered into captivity, either through capture,
captive birth or rescue/rehabilitation. The origin of the
animal
will be represented by one letter codes which are:
- W
= Wild Caught: the animal was collected for
display
- B
= Captive Birth: the animal was born in human
care
- S
= Stranding/Rescue: the animal was rescued or
stranded
- R
= Release: the animal was released from human
care
- M
= Miscarriage: the animal was the result of a
miscarriage
- SB
= Stillbirth : the animal was the result of a
stillborn
- F
= Fetus: the animal was still in utero ex. mother died while
pregnant
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| DAM
(MOTHER) |
The
animals mother (dam). In the case of wild caught animals this
will often be labeled as "Wild" although some wild-caught
animals
will have a known parent, either as the result of a wild population
survey or in an event when a mother-calf pair strands.
Captive born individuals will have a parent listed if known and will
use these guidelines:
- Name
Unk:
parent of calf is known but the name of the individual animal
is
not known to us. If the name of the parent is learned we will
update this field and note it in "Site Updates".
- Unk:
parent
of the calf is unknown. This is most often the case with
sires if
paternity testing has not been completed. If testing is
completed
the sire will be updated at such a time as that information becomes
available. The update will be noted in "Site Updates".
- ###:
if a number appears in this column this is a reference to the
North American Bottlenose Dolphin Studbook. The number is the
parents stud number.
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| SIRE
(FATHER) |
See above
descriptions
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| STATUS |
Some pages
will utilize a "Status" category. Statuses for animals will
have the following categories:
Living:
The animal is currently alive as of the last update for that
particular inventory. This information can be dependent on
what's
known for a particular population or inventory of animals and cannot be
guaranteed 100% accurate or up to date.
Dead:
The animal has died and is listed in the inventory of the
facility that it lived at when the death occurred. This
information can be dependent on what's known for a particular
population or inventory of animals and cannot be guaranteed 100%
accurate or up to date. In cases where the date is unknown
question marks or an estimated date will appear. ex: ??? ??
????, May ?? 1978, ??? ?? 1978, etc
Transferred:
The
animal was transferred from this park to another. In this
case
the receiving park will be listed below the "Transferred" status.
ex:
??? ?? ????, May ?? 1978, ??? ?? 1978, etc
Released:
The animal has been released
and is listed on the inventory of the facility where it was released
from. ex:
??? ?? ????, May ?? 1978, ??? ?? 1978, etc
Unknown:
The animal's status is currently unknown and is lost "in the
system" or to memory. In some cases these animals were
transferred overseas and lost to domestic review/paperwork.
In
most cases this means an animal is probably dead but no death date has
been located.
NOTE:
Individual park inventories are only as up to date as we know
it to be and each status is applied as such.
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| STATUS
DATE |
The date on
which any of the above statuses occurred. For "Living"
animals no date will be listed.
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In
the online world as well as within the documents referenced for this
site there are a variety of abbreviations. Below
are some
of the ones we think you'll find useful
Common Abbreviations - Species:
- the common name of the captive species followed by the two
letter scientific name abbreviation, then other commonly used names. or
slang for the species
| Bottlenose Dolphins |
TT |
BND,
Tursiops, Tursiops spp. |
| Belugas |
DL |
White Whales,
"lugas" |
| Commerson's
Dolphins |
CC |
commies |
| False
Killer Whales |
PC |
FKW,
Pseudorca, okies, Pacific Black Whale |
| Killer
Whales |
OO |
orca |
| Risso's
Dolphin |
GG |
Grampus |
| River
Dolphins, Amazon |
IG |
Inia,
Botos, Toninas |
| Rough-toothed
Dolphins |
SB |
Stenos |
| Spotted
Dolphin, Pantropical |
SA |
Stenella,
"spotties", "spotters", Pantropicals, Pantrops |
| Spotted
Dolphins, Atlantic |
SF |
Stenella,
"spotties", "spotters", |
| White-sided
Dolphin, Pacific |
LO |
Lag, laggies |
Common Abbreviations - Facilties:
United States & Canada
(alphabetical by facility)
| Aquatica |
AQUATICA |
| Audubon
Aquarium |
AUDUBON,
Aquarium of the Americas |
| Brookfield Zoo |
BROOKFIELD,
BZ, CZS |
| Clearwater
Marine Aquarium |
CMA |
| Chicago
Zoological Society |
CZS, see also Brookfield Zoo |
| Discovery Cove |
DC, Disco |
| Dolphin
Connection |
DCONN, Hawk's
Cay |
| Dolphin
Conservation Center |
DCC, see also
Marineland of Florida |
| Dolphin Cove |
DCOVE |
| Dolphin Quest:
Hawai'i |
DQ: H |
| Dolphin Quest:
Oahu |
DQ: O, Kahala
Hilton, Kahala Hotel |
| Dolphin
Research Center |
DRC |
| Dolphin's Plus |
D+, DPLUS |
| EPCOT Living
Seas |
EPCOT, The Seas |
| Florida's
Gulfarium |
GULFARIUM |
| Georgia
Aquarium |
GA |
| Gulf World
Marine Park, Fl |
GW, GW FL,
Gulf World Florida |
| Gulf World
Marine Park, Al |
GW AL, Gulf
World, Alabama |
| Hawai'i
Cetacean Rehab Center |
HCRB |
| Hawai'i Inst.
of Marine Bio |
HIMB, Coconut
Island |
| Indianapolis
Zoo |
INDY |
| Institute for
Marine Mammal Studies |
IMMS |
| Island Dolphin
Care |
IDC, therapy
center associated with Dolphin's Plus |
| Kewalo Basin
Marine Mammal Lab |
KBMML |
| Long Marine
Laboratory |
LML, Seymour
Center |
| Marineland
Canda |
MLC |
| Marineland
of Florida |
MLoF, ML
FLORIDA, Marine Studios, see also Dolphin Conservation Center |
| Marineland
Foundations Inc |
MFI |
| Marineland
Ocean Resort |
MOR |
| Marine Animal
Productions |
MAP, Gulfport,
Marinelife Oceanarium |
| Marine Park of
Flagler |
MPF |
| Miami
Seaquarium |
MSQ, Seaquarium |
| Minnesota Zoo |
MINN, MINNZOO,
MZ |
| Mirage Dolphin
Habitat |
MIRAGE |
| Mote Marine
Laboratory |
MML, MOTE |
| National
Aquarium in Baltimore |
NAIB |
| Sea Life Park:
Oahu |
SLP, SLP: O |
| Sea World of
Ohio |
SWO |
| SeaWorld
Orlando |
SWF |
| SeaWorld San
Antonio |
SWT, SWSA |
| Sea World San
Diego |
SWC, SWSD |
| Texas Marine
Mammal Stranding Network |
TMMSN |
| Texas State
Aquarium |
TSA |
| US
Navy |
NMMP, Navy
Marine Mammal Program |
| Vancouver
Aquarium |
VANAQUA |
Europe & the
Mediterranean(alphabetical by facility)
Eastern Europe (alphabetical by
facility)
Africa & the Middle East (alphabetical by facility)
Asia - All Regions (alphabetical by facility)
Central & South America (alphabetical by facility)
Bahamas, Bermuda & the Caribbean (alphabetical by facility)
Australia & the South
Pacific (alphabetical by facility)
SeaWorld's ID
Numbering System:
SeaWorld
assigns all of its animals an ID number after they have lived for six
months. There are four parts to the ID number. First is the three
letter abbreviation for the park they were born at or at which they
first entered the system (PARK). The second is the two letter
abbreviation for their scientific species name (SPECIES). Third comes
the year they were born in or first entered the park system (YY), and
fourth is a number that indicates what number birth or arrival they
were in the park's calendar year (##).
The numbers are written like so: PARK-SPECIES-YY##
ex. SWF-TT-8106
Using
the above example you can tell a lot of information about this
animal. "SWF" tells us she was born at SeaWorld Florida.
"TT" means she is a Tursiops truncatus,
or Bottlenose
Dolphin. The number "81" is the year she entered the park
system,
1981. The final part, the number "06", tells us she was the
sixth
new dolphin to arrive at SeaWorld Orlando. Putting all this together we
can determine the individual animal, in the case of our example its
Jenever, born on October 20, 1981.
The four parks, Florida, Ohio, Texas, and California, were are assigned
a number to start their counting of new additions to their animal
inventory for the last part of the ID number, assuming that no more
than a certain number of animals were likely to enter the system of one
park in any given year.
- SWF's
numbers: 01-25
- SWC's
numbers: 26-50
- SWO's
numbers: 50-75
- SWT's
numbers: 76-99
Discovery
Cove, Aquatica, and SWF all fall under the "SWF" abbreviation in terms
of animal inventory, so dolphins born at Discovery Cove or held at
Aquatica will have SWF ID numbers and maintain consecutive numbers
across each of the parks as calves are born or animals are added into
the system.
These
numbers are also species specific. For example: the
first
orca born in 2004 at SWC has an ID of SWC-OO-0426 (Kalia) - she was the
first (and only) killer whale calf born at SeaWorld California in 2004,
so the final two parts of her ID number are 04 and 26 (26 being the
starting number for SWC as noted above). Additionally, a the first
bottlenose dolphin born in 2004 (Venus) woud be SWC-TT-0426.
Even
though she shares the same last four digits as Kalia's, the TT
indicates she is of a different species.
When an animal is transferred to one SeaWorld park from another, it
will retain its original ID number, it's like their name. However, when
an animal from another facility is transferred to a SeaWorld park and
is entereing the system for the first time, they are given an ID for
the park they go to. Their last four digits tell the year they
transferred into SeaWorld's holding and what number animal they were.
For
example, in 2001 SeaWorld acquired nine dolphins from Marineland of
Florida. Though these dolphins were either born and captured
at
various years they all entered into SeaWorld's ownship the same year
and thus share this year in their SW ID number. Consider this
specific example - Ariel,born in 1992, moved from Marineland
to
SWF in 2001. Her ID is SWF-TT-0107, as she was the seventh dolphin
entered into the system in 2001.
Think you got it? Then test yourself!
1. SWO-TT-9752
2. SWF-DL-0701
3. SWT-TT-9578
4. SWC-OO-7806
Ready to check your answers?
1. This Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin was the second dolphin to arrive at
SeaWorld Ohio in 1997.
2. This beluga whale was the first to arrive at SeaWorld Orlando in
2007.
3. This Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin was the third to arive at SeaWorld
Texas in 1995.
4. This orca was the sixth to arrive at SeaWorld California in 1978.
Now, number 4 gives a prime example of how there are always exceptions.
The assigned number system was not put into place until the 80s, when
all four parks were functioning together. Prior to that, the last two
numbers counted on the basis that all the parks (as many as were open
at the time) kept a consecutive inventory together.
In case you were wondering, 1 is Dash, 2 is Maple, 3 is Porter, and 4
is Katina.
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