Miami: Lolita, the 50-year-old orca, will be released

Fifty-three years of shows in this water park and soon freedom for Lolita. The star orca of Seaquarium at Miami (UNITED STATES) will now return to his native ocean. Captured when she was four years old, Lolita was bought by the aquatic complex in 1970. The three-ton animal and half performs every week in front of a conquered audience somersaults and laps in this small basin. But recently, at 57, the orca was declared too old and in poor health to continue. She will be released into the wild.

His mother, a 90-year-old orca is still alive

A victory for those who have been fighting for years for his release. “I know she stayed in life all this time to see that day come”was moved by the American philanthropist Jim Irsay. Like this had been the case a few years ago with the orca from the movie Save WillyLolita will be transported by plane, before joining the ocean, where her mother, a 90-year-old killer whale would still evolve. But for marine animal experts, Lolita’s chances of survival in the marine environment are very low.