The nonprofit, Friends of Toki, released a statement that stated: “Over the last two days, Toki started exhibiting serious signs of discomfort, which her full Miami Seaquarium and Friends of Toki medical team began treating immediately and aggressively. “Toki was an inspiration to all who had the fortune to hear her story, and especially to the Lummi nation that considered her family,” the statement said, referring to Indigenous people in the area of her natural waters off Washington state, where she was captured at age four.Ī nonprofit backed by Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, had been partnering with the Seaquarium to move Lolita to a sea pen off Washington state and was training her for the eventual move. In a social media post, the Seaquarium said Lolita developed a renal condition in recent days. Now known as Tokitae or Toki, a name adopted by advocates urging her freedom, the killer whale had suffered health problems in her Seaquarium tank last fall and was reportedly close to death because of pneumonia, according to recent interviews with her training staff. She was believed to be 57 at the time of her death. MIAMI - Lolita, the orca that was a star attraction in captivity at the Seaquarium, died Friday as plans to move her out of the Miami theme park were beginning to take shape. (Nuri Vallbona/Miami Herald via AP, File) 18, 2023, at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future. Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died Friday, Aug.
Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995.
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