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On New Year’s Eve 1993, Tilikum’s fourth offspring, named Nyar, was born to Gudrun. Nyar did anything but thrive. The infant girl seemed to suffer from congenital birth defects. She was physically and mentally unsound. Gudrun rejected her calf and tried to drown her several times before SeaWorld separated the two. Nyar made little progress and had trouble swimming correctly. Blood tests showed she suffered from immunosuppression. She had trouble learning and was unfit for shows. Nyar often spent time in the company of Tilikum, her father, who treated her with great gentleness. Nyar lived only a little over 2 years. She fought a long battle with several illnesses, every day of her short life. She was separated, often for long periods of time, from her mother Gudrun. During these periods of time, Nyar's illness spiked to dangerous levels. However, when Nyar recovered, albeit for short periods of time, they were reunited, and did very well together. When Gudrun was dying from her labour and the effects of having to have her calf pulled from her by chain, she swam over to the bars where Nyar was watching through the gate and nuzzled her through the bars as if looking for forgiveness, then she herself died.

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