iami Seaquarium’s star orca, Lolita, who has spent more than 50 years M in captivity, will soon bid adieu to her tiny tank in Florida and live out the rest of her days in her home waters of the Pacific Northwest. Lolita, also known as Tokitae, is a 57-year-old orca () from the now-endangered Southern Resident orcas that live off the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. She’s the second-oldest orca in captivity behind Corky, a 58-year-old female who resides at SeaWorld San Diego. Lolita arrived at Miami Seaquarium in 1970 after a group of men captured her and 79 other orcas at a cove on Whidbey Island in one of the largest and most widely condemned orca-capture events in history. Since then, Lolita has lived and performed tricks in an aquarium pool, which is the smallest of its kind in North America, until March 2022, when she retired from public shows.
