Lolita's death: Activists hold vigil in Virginia Key

Activists met on Saturday to hold a vigil in memory of Lolita, a whale orca that died on Friday afternoon at Miami Seaquarium in Virginia Key.

[asnormalasitgets]

Free Corky. Lolita sadly passed away at the Miami Seaquarium, now it’s time to free Corky from San Diego Sea World. Please do not support whales and dolphins in Captivity.

[nightlifesaskia]

hope she’s with hugo and her family now, she‘ll be missed a lot

[oliviabrown]

57 years enslaved...made to work for free and now she is completely free. Swim free, Lolita!!!

[HappyWildflower]

You are finally free, sweet Toki. So sorry it had to be this way. 💔

[GodsOath_com]

If they only cared about people this much

[cameronhillyard]

Lolita and kiska were on top of my list but they didn’t get to see their freedoms

[weekendadventures]

🐳 end trafficking of all NOT temporarily, forever 🐳

[truthreignsforever]

<> let’s not get carried away here. The animal lived longer in captivity than in the wild. We all have a shelf life. An animal isn’t meant to live forever in captivity. But when cared and fed properly, as this one obviously was (53 years 👍)…….it’s not a bad thing. Let’s not blame the aquarium for neglect or the natural death. They loved and cared for the animal. Let’s acknowledge, in all logic, that a creature will die no matter how well tended to. No, we shouldn’t hold millions of animals captive. But there are a few that are meant to be loved and cared for by humans which was their unique lot.

[cameronhillyard]

😢😢😢😢😢 rip Lolita and I hope that miami sea aquarium be shut down permanently as they are even more worse than seaworld and I know that you guys don’t like seaworld because of seeing orcas in captivity but they have stopped doing that and instead rescue sick orphaned abandoned and injured marine life because if they are shut down then more marine life will suffer in the wild because of the threats they face and corky isn’t in my opinion of orcas to be released but I would like to see these orcas to be released
Kahamenk from Argentina look him up
Naya from Russia look her up
Ikaika I’m not sure if I said the name right but he’s a orca from San Diego that I would like to see be released
Stella from Nagoya aquarium
A orca from kamogawa I don’t know which one but one of them I want to see be released
Look up living orcas in captivity then you can find them

[Patrick-yhyd]

Hey kids, Lolita was a Trump supporter. She made a good living and supported many.

[shadowmaster]

Once a performing animal, used to the crowd and being applauded by people, gets taken out of their routine, they will get sick and depressed