May 05--The Pacific white-sided dolphin calf born at the Shedd Aquarium two weeks ago has been sexed, as they say in the trade, and it's a boy, the aquarium reported Thursday.
The calf, which will be named later in its life, is passing expected milestones and appearing to thrive while in the care of first-time mother Katrl, officials said.
That makes three males in a row at the lakefront facility, the previous two born to the female Piquet in 2012 and 2015. The sire in all three instances was Lii, an animal at Miami Seaquarium.
Shedd has kept white-sided dolphins, rare in captivity and abundant in the wild, since it opened its Abbott Oceanarium in the early 1990s but had not had a successful birth until Piquet's in 2012.
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