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Tokitae was the last surviving orca of the whales that were captured from Puget Sound and sold into captivity. She was violently taken from her pod in August 1970 near Whidbey Island's Penn Cove.
But he says there will also be a celebration of Tokitae’s life that will be open to the public at Jackson Beach Park in Friday Harbor Sunday from noon to 3 p.m.
SEATTLE — Tokitae, the last southern resident orca living in captivity, died in 2023, just as there were plans to try bringing her home to Washington state. Tokitae — also known as Toki or her ...
These two memorials are some of the many events that honor Tokitae. FILE - A look at southern resident orca Tokitae, also known as Lolita, who died at the Miami Seaquarium on Aug. 18, 2023.
Tokitae was the last surviving Southern Resident orca in captivity. Taken from Puget Sound in 1970, she died at the Miami Seaquarium on August 18.
INDIANAPOLIS — Tokitae, the captive orca who Colts owner Jim Irsay would have had a hand in repatriating back to the Salish Sea, passed away on Friday afternoon. The Miami Seaquarium said she died ...
One of the resident orcas still in the Sound waters, L-25 AKA Ocean Sun, is believed to be Tokitae’s mom. They were pictured together when Tokitae, just 4 years old at the time, was captured.
Tokitae died on Aug. 18 in Miami, shocking the Lummi and other Washingtonians who had been working to return her home after 53 years in captivity.
The death of Tokitae, the southern resident orca on Friday in Miami, was a shock to those who had been working to return her to her home waters of the Pacific Northwest, after 53 years in captivity.
Tokitae, the performing orca known as Lolita at Miami’s Seaquarium, is shown with a trainer in 2011. (Andy Blackledge/Flickr) The orca has become the symbol of the Pacific Northwest, perhaps ...
When Tokitae arrived at the Seaquarium she was put into a tank with Hugo, another orca who was captured from the Puget Sound a year and a half before she was. They lived in what was called a ...