The unthinkable may be possible: there are now talks about Tokitae, an orca ripped from her family and flown to the other side of the country, coming home to Puget Sound. FOX13
have been raising funds for years to build an open-sea pen that would allow the orca access to her home waters, while also being able to communicate with family members without the risk of her injuring herself at sea. One of those elders told FOX 13 that she plans to attend Thursday’s event.
It’s unclear what a timeline would look like if Tokitae is indeed coming home, though there are a number of hoops and ladders that would need to be cleared: government entities would need to sign off, funds would be required, and a location would need to be prepared to release Tokitae after a cross-country journey.
All of that said, those who have followed this story closely say today’s news is perhaps the closest her return has ever come to reality in more than 50 years.Believed to have been born in 1966 in the L Pod of the southern resident orcas. She was captured from Penn Cove in Puget Sound at four years old. Tokitae was one of seven of young orcas captured in Puget Sound that day and was then sold to marine mammal parks around the world. The other six orcas taken have since died in captivity.
Tokitae was alone again before the aquarium added dolphins to her enclosure. Orcas are social creatures and travel in pods in the dozens. Tokitae became the subject of a documentary called Lolita: Slave to Entertainment, where activists argued against her conditions of containment and argued that she should be reintroduced into the wild. This predates the well-known Blackfish documentary, which shed a light on performing whales in captivity.
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