Lolita has suffered for more than half a century in the smallest orca tank in the world. Lolita can't do anything except float without energy and swim in circles all day.
BEATRIZ GARCIA: Majestic cetaceans that inhabit all the oceans of the planet, the killer whales usually swim a hundred miles a day and dive to tens of meters deep in search of food. But Lolita, the main attraction at the Miami aquarium, lives in a 60-foot-long tank divided into two pools… According to the Animal Welfare Act, the tanks must be at least eighty feet long — twice the length of an adult whale — but Lolita’s house is far from compliant…
“Lolita can’t do anything except float without energy and swim in circles all day,” Puerto Rican José Rodriguez, one of the protest organizers. Since SHE was captured in 1970 off the coast of Washington state, the whale has lived locked up in a thimble of water. “Lolita has suffered for more than half a century in the smallest orca tank in the world and we are asking the Miami aquarium to transfer Lolita to a coastal sanctuary,” added Rodriguez, who led a score of activists who gathered Saturday to demand the whale’s liberation and its transfer to a marine sanctuary. SOURCE…
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