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''August 21, 2023''[[File:Miami Oceanarium.jpg|alt=Rest in peace Toki|thumb|Rest in peace Toki]]Tokitae, also known as [[Lolita - orca|Lolita]] or Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, was a female orca who spent more than 50 years in captivity at the [[Miami Seaquarium]]. She was captured from her family in the Salish Sea in 1970, when she was about four years old, and sold to the aquarium for $6,000. She was also the subject of a long and passionate campaign by activists, scientists, and Native Americans to free her from her small and barren tank and return her to her home waters. | ''August 21, 2023''[[File:Miami Oceanarium.jpg|alt=Rest in peace Toki|thumb|Rest in peace Toki]]Tokitae, also known as [[Lolita - orca|Lolita]] or Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, was a female orca who spent more than 50 years in captivity at the [[Miami Seaquarium]]. She was captured from her family in the [[Penn Cove orca captures|Salish Sea in 1970]], when she was about four years old, and sold to the aquarium for $6,000. She was also the subject of a long and passionate campaign by activists, scientists, and Native Americans to free her from her small and barren tank and return her to her home waters. | ||
On Friday, August 18, 2023, Tokitae passed away from what is believed to be a renal condition. She was estimated to be 57 years old, making her the second-oldest orca in captivity. Her death came as plans were underway to relocate her to a sea pen in the Pacific Northwest, where she could have lived out her days in a more natural environment and possibly reunited with her mother, Ocean Sun, who is still alive and swimming with Tokitae’s relatives in the L-pod of resident killer whales. | On Friday, August 18, 2023, Tokitae passed away from what is believed to be a renal condition. She was estimated to be 57 years old, making her the second-oldest orca in captivity. Her death came as plans were underway to relocate her to a sea pen in the Pacific Northwest, where she could have lived out her days in a more natural environment and possibly reunited with her mother, Ocean Sun, who is still alive and swimming with Tokitae’s relatives in the L-pod of resident killer whales. | ||