A trainer told visitors, "Here at Miami Seaquarium, we're proud to have all of you join us here to know that Lolita is happy and healthy." The killer whale has been doing some version of this show twice a day since shortly after she was captured in Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest in 1970. In a show recorded earlier this year, the orca breached and used her flukes (tail fins) to splash the audience. At 56 years old, Lolita is considered elderly for an orca.
Miami Seaquarium says its whale stadium is temporarily closed for repairs. Members of the Lummi Nation have sought her release to her native waters in the Pacific Northwes t. The federal report raises concerns about Lolita's health and has renewed calls for her to be relocated.įor a decade, animal rights groups have held demonstrations and filed lawsuits seeking to improve her conditions at the Seaquarium. For 51 years, its star attraction has been Lolita, one of the oldest killer whales in captivity.
The Seaquarium is where the Flipper TV series was filmed in the 1960s. Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via GettyĪ federal inspection report has found serious violations in how marine mammals have been cared for at one of Miami's oldest attractions.
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