The Today marks Ula’s first birthday!
Ula was born on September 22nd, 2018. Morgan showed herself to be a very good mother, immediately attending to the calf she gave birth to. However, within the first 24 hours of Ula’s birth, problems arose. It seemed like Morgan wasn’t able to produce enough milk to properly feed Ula, and trainers had to step in, to bottle feed the calf.
On September 25th, before one of the shows, the big screen gave some insight into the situation. Morgan and Ula had been separated so that Ula could be regularly bottle-fed.
On September 26th, an article posted to laprovincia.es revealed the sex of the calf as female.
On September 27th, Morgan and Ula had been reunited as it seemed that Morgan was now able to produce enough milk for Ula to grow from. Morgan and Ula reportedly developed a strong bond together. And so the first week of Ula’s life went by rather hectically.
Very soon after that, it seemed that Loro Parque had separated Ula again from Morgan, as she was still not producing enough milk for her calf. The first week of October, no one knew if Morgan and Ula were together or not, and pictures that surfaced only showed Ula alone, in the med pool, not with her mother.
Finally then on October 15th, Loro Parque themselves confirmed that Morgan and calf were indeed separated from each other while Ula was being bottle-fed.
At three months old Morgan and Ula continued to be separated. With updates few and far between, nobody really knew what was going on. On December 27th, however, Loro Parque posted an update about scientific research that they were performing with Ula.
Then on January 13th of 2019, an article posted to eldia.es finally gave us a name. Ula was given to Morgan’s calf, meaning Jewel of the Sea. After that, it seemed that Morgan and Ula had been reunited finally.
On January 22nd, Loro Parque finally confirmed Ula’s name as well as that they had been reunited again with each other.
On January 25th, photos posted to thevoiceoftheorcas showed Ula with possible medical conditions. The article pointed out that Ula had a misshapen pectoral flipper, as well as a flat head. The author threw around all kinds of assumptions. Loro Parque ignored this at first, opting to instead share a video of Ula.
Loro Parque finally responded to the accusations on January 30th, but with nothing concrete, just an assurance that Ula was healthy.
At six months, Ula started her training, and Loro Parque reported on how they were doing that in a video.
After Hazel’s book got published, it seemed to confirm that Keto was the father of Ula, as she describes it to be in her book.
Then, at the end of June, Ula was introduced to Skyla and Kohana, the other females in the park.
On August 6th, Operation 404 posted a video of supposedly Morgan trying to slide over a barrier to get to her calf. In the video, Ula is playing with a ball. The video does show an orca trying to slide over it seems, but it was nearly impossible to identify which orca. On August 9th, Loro Parque responded with a video of their own, in which it was Adan sliding over, apparently interested in the ball Ula was playing with.
And so, on September 22nd, marks the first year of Ula at Loro Parque.
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