The Pod

Location: Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan
KSW's stadium has just 2 tanks for the orcas, this means there is not enough room to allow many orca groups. In the past, the 2 big males, Bingo and Oscar, were rarely separated from the females. They were even present at births or they met the calves soon after the birth. Stella, the matriarch and dominant female of the group, allows the males to be with the calves and it has never been reported that they were any tensions between the orcas. But the two tanks are way to small for 6 orcas, so moves may soon occyr. When Lovey got pregnant in 2007, the group was split; Oscar, Lovey and Lara were mostly in the show pool doing performances, while Stella, Ran and Bingo are kept in the back pool.
After Earth's birth that separation didn't change. Ran might join her sisters during the shows soon as she was trained a lot lately.