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Rest in Peace Tokitae [1]

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Date: 2023-08-18

Tokitae, the Southern Resident orca stolen from her family in the Salish Sea in 1970, has died.

She was just 4 years old when she was violently kidnapped and shipped off to Miami Seaquarium where she spent the rest of her life confined to a small poorly maintained tank, forced to do tricks to earn food.

Sadly, she did not live long enough to return home to where the remnant of her family, L pod, still lives. The whale thought to be her mother is still here. Plans were underway to bring her back to the Salish Sea. www.seattletimes.com/...

Yesterday, all three pods of the Southern Resident community gathered together in Haro Strait off San Juan Island, a very unusual event. Perhaps they knew something we didn’t.



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