The time frame for moving the 57-year-old, 2,267-kilogram orca could be six to nine ... is backing the move to return Lolita to the Pacific Ocean (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald via AP) Mr Irsay ...
agreeing to return the 5,000-pound mammal back home. "The story of Lolita the orca has been near and dear to my heart," said Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who helped broker the deal.
MIAMI — Caregivers at a South Florida ocean park are taking steps to prepare Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, for a possible return to her home waters in ...
READ MORE: Orphaned baby orca stranded in Canadian lagoon will be airlifted out to join new pod in the Pacific Ocean - after it spent weeks refusing to leave its dead mom's body A baby orca ...
For the first time in months, a pod of killer whales was spotted in the waters off Los Angeles. Whale-watching tour operators ...
RESIDENT ORCA tells the unfolding story ... through a captive whale and the attempts to return her to her wild family. As the effort to free Lolita approaches success, her life comes to mirror ...
The beloved orca Lolita, also known as Tokitae, was captured in the Pacific and brought to the park on Sept. 24, 1970. Children from Latin America traveled to Miami to watch Lolita jump out of the ...
The calf got stranded on Vancouver Island along with its pregnant mother on March 23 Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP A rescue effort is being planned in Canada to help a killer whale calf ...
Nevertheless, McBride and many of her fans want to return to marine parks ... Jason Colby argues in his book Orca, came mid-century, when industry in the Pacific north-west shifted from reliance ...
Whale watching is our ultimate out-of-towners activity, but even locals can chase the thrill of spotting sea life in the wild ...