world’s loneliest orca still stuck in America’s smallest orca tank

Lolita Documentary produced by Daniel Azarian, featuring Dr. Ingrid Visser. Filmed in Miami, Summer 2013. Lolita, first named Tokitae, was violently torn away from her family and her natural world in 1970. Since then she has dutifully performed the same boring circus routines twice daily in the hot Miami sun. She has been alone since 1980 when her young adolescent male tankmate died after bashing his head against the walls and windows. Her very survival defies the odds. At least 40 other captives from her
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