Malia in the Show Pool During the Orca Encounter Delay | SeaWorld Orlando |

Now we can start to tap it around different areas or maybe even move it in different ways to train all these different behaviors. Now they're all very very smart and sometimes these behaviors can take maybe a day, maybe even a week, or sometimes they can even take years. Every animal is unique and different just like us. Now once they've learned all these cool behaviors we're actually able to ask them using something called basically like sign language. We call it So that is how we're actually able to communicate to them. So you'll notice today while we're working with the whales we're using a lot of body language and maybe even hand movements and that's how we're able to communicate to them. Now they're very smart they know we need to train them to know what those signals mean. Now something really cool that they also can do, they've been trained, is to hear these underwater signals. So we actually have a little box back here that we can press and it allows us to be able to ask them those behaviors but with a sound that they can hear under the water. So we have 10 different sounds that they know each time we press one of those buttons they can hear it and they can do that behavior. Now whenever they do something great like I was talking about we have to be able to tell them, right? So what we can use is our whistle. You may notice that most of us trainers have one of these right here around our neck. So this is called a bridge or a whistle and this is how we're able to communicate to them whenever that behavior was perfect and we want them to come back to us for reinforcing. That's a good way for us to be able to communicate to them or like I said we can use that tone box and allow them to so they know to come back to us. Now like I said they are very very smart they know a lot of different behaviors but they also eat a lot of fish, right? So us trainers will come in the morning and we sort through all of their food to make sure that we're giving them the best restaurant quality fish possible. Now it's our job to take care of them, right? To make sure that they are staying healthy. That kind of ties back into the food that I was talking about. What we can do to make sure that they stay healthy is a blood draw like we showed you earlier. We can also get one of their weights to make sure that they are staying healthy in the right weight range. He actually weighs about 8,000 pounds. Now Mikhail is our youngest killer whale but he's not the smallest. He weighs about 6,000 pounds and he's still growing so we think one day he might actually be bigger than Truel which will be awesome. So those are some of those things that we can do to make sure that they are staying healthy. Another thing that we can do is a fecal sample, maybe even a urine sample. We've also been able to train them to do a voluntary ultrasound. So that's something that we're going to ask them to do and we can do that to make sure that all of their body...