Morgan was rescued off the Dutch coast in the Wadden Sea in 2010, where she was found with skin abrasions, inflammation and severely malnourished.
After she recovered at the Harderwijk Dolphinarium and a group of international orca scientists concluded that returning her to the sea would almost certainly condemn her to a slow death, the Dutch authorities asked Loro Parque to take Morgan in so that she could be integrated into a social group of orcas.
She was brought to the park in 2011, and by March 2012 Morgan was fully integrated into Loro Parque’s orca group. Since then, she has lived a healthy and harmonious life with the rest of the group and her keepers, and is part of the research, education and conservation activities that are regularly carried out with the orcas. In 2018, she gave birth to her first calf