Wednesday • April 1, 1998 JjJJk The Battalion Aggiep ife III llli 'mm m ■Free Willy’ tide character too tame to be freed publisher'! booVilore NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — The romantic notion of [Free Willy†star Keiko swimming back to the sea just ike in the movies has run up against a hard reality: The filler whale doesn’t have much of a killer inst inct . Keiko is so lousy at catching fish that even some of lis most optimistic handlers acknowledge that the diale who has lived nearly his entire life in a pool may lever be able to survive in the wild. He is getting lessons from humans in catching fish, md in the first peek to be given to a reporter, Keiko man- jiged to catch a couple, with a trainer using a dog whis- [le, hand signals and clapping to point him to his prey. But for the most part, the black-and-white beast matched meal after meal flutter by. ‘‘He may never reach the wild. This may not suc ceed,†said Nolan Harvey, curator of marine mammals pf the Free Willy Keiko Foundation. Regardless of whether his hunting abilities improve, le foundation still plans to take Keiko later this year to [in enclosed bay pen in the North Atlantic where he rould continue to be fed. Two years ago, schoolchildren inspired by the movie [Free Willy" helped raise money to move the ailing killer diale from a cramped Mexico City aquarium to a spa cious pool here at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in hopes of getting him heal dry enough for a return to the open sea. His health did indeed improve, helped along with daily hand feedings of300 pounds of restaurant-quality fresh fish. To get him ready for the wild, however, the hand feeding stopped abruptly a couple of months ago and trainers began dropping dead fish into the tank, then stunned fish that fluttered in the water. The sessions with healthy live fish began several weeks ago. In Monday’s training, Harvey screamed, ‘‘Go get that fish! Go get it!†after releasing cod and salmon into the mammal’s path. When Keiko finally grabbed a live fish in his jaws, then swallowed it whole, trainer Tracy Karmuza, clad in a wet suit, jumped into the tank next to Keiko and yelled, “Good boy!†The famous whale ate a second fish minutes later but then seemed to lose interest, letting at least three other live fish swim by unharmed. Critics say Keiko’s lack of hunting ability isn’t surprising because the whale has spent 18 of his 20 years in captivity “I don’t think it’s fair and humane to the animal to tiy this operation just to make a few people happy,†said Brad Andrews, vice president of zoological operations at Sea World in Orlando, Fla. Sea World’s theme parks around the country have 19 killer whales. Andrews said his team of marine biologists has re habilitated and released whales, usually ones that have been found beached or have other problems, such as malnutrition. “But those animals are with us a very short time and not long enough to be imprinted by humans,†he said. “Keiko has been imprinted a long time.†Though disappointed by the session, Keiko’s train ers said it’s still remarkable that a captive whale that’s been fed dead fish practically its entire life now is able to catch and eat at least some live fish. They said on better days, Keiko catches up to 15 live fish, or about half his daily diet. “To my knowledge, no other project has attempted to teach an adult killer whale how to hunt,†said Diane Hammond, spokeswoman for the foundation. “We’re breaking new ground here every day.†She said the foundation believes Keiko would still be much happier in an ocean pen, even if he had to spend the rest of his days there. “He will remain under our care as long as he needs it,†she said. “If that means forever, so be it.†CINCINNATI (AP)—Twenty-one years after the city of Cincin nati prosecuted Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flyntfor ob scenity, history may be repeating itself. A grand jury is looking into Flynt’s bookstore, which sells adult videos, magazines and sex toys. Police raided the store on Friday. City law limits adult businesses to industrial areas and re quires a license for a business carrying a significant or sub stantial amount of sexually explicit merchandise. The law does not define substantial. Flynt has said that 30 percent to 40 percent of the store’s sales have been of adult materials. He has not applied fora li cense for the business. It is not in an industrial area. Jimmy Flynt, Flynt’s brother and the store manager, was subpoenaed along with five employees and ordered to ap pear Wednesday before the grand jury. Larry Flynt was not subpoenaed. Prosecutors would not say what the grand jury is investi gating, but Larry Flynt’s lawyer, H. Louis Sirkin, said it could be pursuing an obscenity prosecution. Flynt has dared Cincinnati authorities to prosecute him. He distributed free copies of Hustler on a downtown square last May, then opened his store in October. Rynt was convicted in 1977, but his conviction was over turned and he was never retried. 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