Belle

Belle is a 31-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin living at SeaWorld San Diego. He was born at SeaWorld San Antonio to Alice and Guy on August 8, 1989. Belle moved to SeaWorld Orlando on June 8, 1996. He moved back and forth between SeaWorld Aurora and SeaWorld Orlando, leaving for Aurora on April 17, 2000 before being sent back to Orlando on February 17, 2001 alongside all other dolphins at the park. While Belle was in Ohio, many of his calves were born to females such as Tasha and Lily. Tasha gave birth on July 9, 2000 to Tango. On August 20, 2000, Lily gave birth to Tiger, also sired by Belle. At an unknown point in time from after Tiger's birth to April 2001 or February 2002 to August 11, 2003, Belle sired another calf to an unknown female. The calf was named Mango. Belle sired Beetle on August 11, 2003 to Bailey. Four days later, another of his calves, Yoshe, was born to Mimi. Just five days after that, Cosmo was born to Nova. On April 4, 2004, Belle was sent to SeaWorld San Diego. He was no longer the dominant male there, and after having sired six calves, he stopped mating with females. On November 30, 2005, it was decided to send Belle to the US Navy with his son, Tango. Belle returned to SeaWorld San Diego on September 10, 2007. In 2008, four of SeaWorld San Diego's females were artificially inseminated only using males at the park. On June 10, 2009, Malibu gave birth at Animal Care to Kali, a future performer at Dolphin Stadium. On May 24, 2013, Alice II gave birth to Haven at SeaWorld San Antonio. Belle sired both calves via artificial insemination. In November 2012, Theater of the Sea purchased semen from Belle in order to artificially inseminated Nicky. The result was Krystle, born on November 25, 2013. Belle was used one last time to artificially inseminate Natalie at Discovery Cove in March 2013. On March 18, 2014, Natalie gave birth to Isadora at Discovery Cove. Belle currently lives at Dolphin Point, doing Dolphin Interactions daily.

Family Members

 * Parents
 * Alice and Guy
 * Calves
 * Tango
 * Tiger
 * Mango
 * Beetle
 * Yoshe
 * Cosmo
 * Kali
 * Haven
 * Krystle
 * Isadora

Breed and Gender

 * Breed
 * 100% Atlantic
 * Gender
 * Male