Lolita’s last moments at Miami Seaquarium
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- On August 18, 2023, news broke of Lolita's passing at Miami Seaquarium. The beloved orca had been in a small tank for much of her life -- arriving to the seaquarium in 1970. For decades, many fought for her release and as her health declined, those demands only increased. Come along as I fly over her home for the past 50 years and watch as her body is removed from the property.
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To be honest, she deserved so much better. There is NO excuse to justify having kept her isolated from her own species for 43 years.
So sad. That place is so gross. All those animals need to be set free.
Those dolphins need to be taken into custody immediately, too. Those tanks are disgusting!!!!
YAS!!!! CLOSE THE MIAMI SEA AQUARIUM. They should only have coral reefs and fish. No marine mammals.
I think they killed her off so they couldn't take her out of captivity. Sad to think that she was so close to being rescued into a sanctuary to live out the rest of her days. She deserved better. Poor girl. 😔
Your are correct!! You don't just die of kidney failure, they did blood work, they knew!
Yes! It had to be planned. Think of moving a killer whale in a matter of hours and the university being ready to do a nighttime necropsy.
That doesn't make sense and would paint a bad picture for them
The more likely event is that they saw she was dying and decided to release her to prevent any further negative press and play ignorant. This aquarium needs to be destroyed
@timothyomara6303 yes but Mr. Irsey had already put down 15million, and she was given a brand new filteration system in her and Li'i's teeny tank. I really dont understand any of this...💔
@timothyomara6303Interesting. Than somebody has to have a talk with these old, greedy dinosaur 's
Rip Lolita 😢, I am sure your tank mate Hugo as well as Keiko were there to greet you.
And Tilikum and Kiska too.
Mom and I used to watch clouds when I was little and point out shapes. Look for fins and tail cloud formations. I saw masses of Orca shaped clouds one morning, clear as day. Maybe its because I Believe therefor I see 🖤🤍
How dare them leave a white tailed dolphin in a filthy tank all by herself. Once the Orca was removed, the dolphin was left alone for a long time. A hero kept calling, so they finally moved her.
I was there Sunday and came out on the news. I'm an animal activist and I signed petitions for her release. I simply went to pay my respects because l saw her since I was a kid and use to volunteer at the Seaquarium in 2009. She deserves a Memorial and plaque for all the money she made for the city. Not only was she an icon to Miami, her legacy was beautiful and tragic. I will remember her. Thank you for doing this. I believed she may have not been fit for transport to Puget Sound but they still robbed her of 40 to 45 years of her life span. 😔💔
HOW BLESSED YOU ARE to have known Lolita!! I read about her in 2016- I couldn't handle hearing her story, I prayed, cried for days- then I had to kind of compartmentalize her best of my ability, until her release was finally HAPPENING SOON BY THE BELOVED MR IRSEY ❤ I was telling everyone about it, (that heard about her through me) and how happy it made us. Her health was great, SeaWorld stated- this place needs buried in the rubble. Then a bronze of Lolita, her exact image- w/ waves and fish / coral around her, as she is free now girl- she was PURE so she automatically went to God's Mansions. We cannot comprehend her happiness now. As this joy and peace surpasses human comprehension. That's how I feel today- at Peace with Lolita being free. I love your comment. I can't imagine the loss and I am so sorry. But rest assured, trust me, you will see her again. And I will get to meet her ❤😊 she changed your life. And mine too, she touched us all with love.
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@timothyomara6303 her mother is still alive in her pod, from what i gathered she is early 90s. But her Mother was free. And safe all these years from ships, harpoonists, and pollution and the biggest threat, MAN AND CAPTURE
50-80 is a pretty big span. 30 more years 🤷🏻♀️ come on @timothyomara6303
@@anndaniels3545And how many “free” orcas have died from lack of food?
Thanks for the great footage!
It just blows my mind how long she lived in those same conditions.
I went there around 15-16 years ago and the park looked like it slhad seen better days and my jaw dropped when I saw how small her enclosure was. (Which actually looks smaller in person!)
Thanks for your service and courage of showing this atrocity
She deserved better these places from Miami and sea world need to be shut down permanently
They put ice in the back of the tractor trailer to help preserve her body for necropsy 😢 this death really hit the orca community hard. We were all rooting for her
Lolita/Tokitae was born into the L pod of the Southern Resident orca population. Her presumed mother is L25 Ocean Sun. She spent 53 years in the world's smallest orca tank. She often sustained injuries from performing in such cramped conditions. She had no shade. She was fed rotting fish. Several Miami Seaquarium dolphins died from lack of proper care. The tank is falling apart. Read the USDA report. That place is terrible.
At least she's finally free. Her ashes will be given to the Lummi Nation and brought home to the Salish Sea. RIP Toki. ❤
This should have a million views humans have no idea the cluster fuck this is. We are connected to everything and our actions have consequences even if you think its just an Orca. Our civilization is just spiraling to a deluge. Thank you for this. 😢 I hope this was just to keep her safe from poachers but I doubt it.
I agree with you. What we do to them we do to ourselves
@@ThomasPalacio10 yes my friend. Delicate times. Quantum entanglement is real. We are all connected.
Miami Dade is seeking to terminate MSQ’s lease. Praying they get shut down forever! These highly intelligent, magnificent and sentient animals were swimming in circles in their own filth for DECADES. Toki was stolen from her home in Penn Cove at the age of 4 and thrown in this cesspool. It’s so sickening it makes me nauseated. May karma come back on these greedy people. Thank you for posting this! I have several videos on Tokitae on my channel going back 2-3 years.
This so sad humanity failed Lolita, we are so destructive messing with this intelligent creature, should never have been taken from ocean & put in captivity for 50 years, can you imagine being in a tank for 50 years swimming in circles while family L pod still alive in ocean
Please don't fund this place. Its criminal what they did to her. God bless her soul 🙏 spread the news to everyone this needs to end and never happen again. She's leaving dead!
Thank you Joel, this is crucial information, not forthcoming from anyone else.
Can you tell us approximately what time in the afternoon you flew the drone over the truck and container with Toki's body?
Captivity = Prison
Joel Franco is the best journalist in Miami.
I will miss her 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅
Thank you for sharing the drone footage, Joel. About what time did you capture the images on Friday?
TEAR THIS HORRIBLE REMINDER DOWN of what this poor poor baby went through. I already visualized what needs done, once SeaWorld is buried here, a bronze sculpture of Lolita needs placed here-- of her with waves and bubbles around her, she us now streamlining the High Seas in the Mansion of Paradise so that is how the statue should be depicted. This is the spot Lolita became FREE not one more day of waking up in captivity, smelling the sea all around her!!! This bronze Lolita will last long after we are all gone. Thousands of years from now, just like ancient ruins- Lolita will be remembered ❤❤❤❤❤❤ I love you Lolita. I prayed and cried for your release. GOD BLESS THE COLTS OWNER MR. IRSEY / HE TRIED
The aquarium industry would do EVERYTHING to stop an orca being sucsessfull released. As Keiko was theyasked the Norweigan gov for a permit to catch him. They did not get it and his death was a surprise, too. I begin to see a pattern
This is only one of many reasons I left that cesspool of a city.
Thank you for the footage, so very sad 110% this must never be repeated, they have made all the blood money from this sentient animal, I hope they get the karma they deserve on the planet ...
She's lucky to finally be free.
RIP Lolita 🙏🏻 🐋
What is happening with a single dolphin left behind.. did someone rescue him?
The dolphin is Lili who now resides at SeaWorld San Antonio
It’s too late now. She needed to go back home. I feel so sad about all of this. Now the dolphin is alone
This is so shameful of humanity which is not humane. Yes there are good people but the creatures who run earth are evil.
The tank you saw the dolphin is was her tank and the one dolphin you saw is Li'l And what about Li'l? He was Tokitae's tank mate. Will he too die a miserable death before he's freed? Li'l has been in prison for 35 years, since 1988. It's time to get him out of there before they kill him too!
They quickly moved her when she died, but wouldn't moved her back to the ocean
Tell All your Latin friends n fam in miami to stop buying tickets to this dump #dontbuyaticket
The water looks terrible like they stopped all maintaince 😮
They tortured these animals. 😢. All these aquariums if not helping sick or injured animals that cant live in the wild anymore. Neex to be shut down!!! Caging animals for no good reason is evil!!!!
ALL aquariums do that! It’s not just about “caging” animals!
I thought animal abuse was illegal
Shut EVERY aquarium with wild dolphins and whales that do shows for profit.
Those “shows” are NOTHING MORE than displays of NATURAL behavior.
Them people done sold her to the highest bidder for research
thanks joel for the footage--this ia an act of murder
It lok's like they are putting ice to her body in the truck 😢😢😢 These unbelievable asswh...!! Kiska Lolita,.. they just dont give in.
I think the were upset about her being relocated, they decided to neglect her & let her die
How do they dispose of her body 😢
Someone said they buried her on the reservation near the waters where she came from
Animal cruelty
They passing Ice
I’ll never forget the time she sprayed water on me on cue from trainer, RIP
Its not home it was her prison
Okay news reporter!
Ugh
I wonder if the manatees made it out
They did for they are at Miami Zoo
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What in the Joe exotic going on here
How they could let her died like this,this video makes you hate human beings,shame on you who are response of all this
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