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- For more than 50 years Toki the orca whale has been circling a Miami Seaquarium tank, 24 metres long and 10 metres wide. There’s an imminent plan to release her into the wild and while the homecoming is long overdue, it’s not without its risks. Subscribe and set 🔔 » 7news.link/YTS...
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Please do a soft release if she gets to the point where she wants to venture out beyond the sanctuary. Leave a door open so that she can return as many times as she wants. This method is documented to be more successful than the usual approach.
Thats what they did to kieko. Ive heard conflicting stories, some say it was a disaster and others say it was a success. I saw footage of it and at the end he was only minimally interacting with humans and then going back to his friends. I dont think he was ever properly in a pod though.
Great idea
It’s barbaric what they’ve done to this animal. The people who have profited from this and the people who paid to see should all go to jail for 50 years.
I agree 💯%! n Toki is mammal like us.🕊️💛✨🙏🏼
100000% agree
I am agree with you
I agree and I’m one of those people who paid to see a killer whale perform at more than one venue. I was curious about them and their amazing capabilities to understand and communicate with people, and at the same time I was feeling remorse for their being taken away from their natural habitat and their families. I’m even more remorseful learning that this orca doesn’t know what eating its natural food is. Don’t know why I liken the experience to being kidnapped by deranged humans and put in a cell with only the bare minimum of food and water to survive.😢💔Praying that she’s able to heal and survive her traumatic treatment ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
@@penelopemitchell191Your kidnap analogy is perfect. Orcas have human life spans, human intelligence/emotion, complex family dynamics, & full languages with dialects. Her being captured & watching her family die is equivalent to a human experiencing that in every way.
What we humans have done to these poor animals is horrendous. This baby deserves to be free.
She deserves to be free but she will die lonely and alone soon.
Go research what happened to the orca from free willy after they released him, then ask yourself if this is a good idea, trust me, it's not
What about burning of huge amounts of trees for soya plantations so you can have your foods that you like all day long doesn't that count or destroying of forests for mining for precious gems and gold opals so much more all around the world
Can't blame it on human beings, monsters are doing this!
It’s heartbreaking! What we’ve done to animals and what we’ve done to humans over time.
They should have never held Toki the beautiful Orca whale
captive to begin with!😢
I pray n emit the best for her, on the rest of her life's journey!
It's been a long time coming the precious old girl! My heart goes out to her!❣️❣️❣️ I'm so happy for you Toki!
I just saw resident orcas for the first time. I was so blessed to pull in just in time to a beautiful Oregon coast overlook.
There they were! A family of three! Their tall dorsal fins zooming and cutting through the waves.
A beautiful sight to behold, and all I could do was give thanks to God for their freedom! Then I prayed and prayed for Toki to one day soon enjoy that freedom.
Dear God… Toki is Your beautiful creation! Please orchestrate whatever is necessary to mercifully, bring her to her native waters and her family.
Please prepare her pod’s hearts to receive her lovingly and gently. Please let her live many many more years and enjoy freedom, and help her forget that humans ever touched her. Please have favor on your beautiful, gigantic, perfect, black, and white creation!
I also pray that you would help us all not to have hateful hearts toward even the evil people who caused this. Help us to do everything with as much love as possible to keep all of the channels open for the best possible outcome for Toki. In Jesus name, I pray… Amen!
50 years ago, I don't know that it's that people were evil, but we were just mindless. People went to circuses and zoos and water parks to see whales and didn't even think twice about their living conditions or that they were taken from the wild. Or if they did, they were told that they're better off because they're fed and cared for. Now we know better, so we can do better as a society. Unfortunately the ocean she is returning to is not the same ocean it was 50 years ago but much more polluted. Which is probably why orcas are starting to go after people's boats. They are pissed and they want us out of their ocean.
If only
Amen
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Thank you to everyone who is doing this big effort of bringing her home.
Watching old capture footage is gut wrenching. I’m glad we’ve (mostly) smartened up on this one issue. Many, MANY more to go.
Also, orcas have human level intelligence/emotions (see: neurobiology studies). They live as long as we do, have tight families & complete languages. What happened to her is quite literally the same as a human getting kidnapped w/ their family murdered in front of them. Pointing that out for people who believe animals feel less deeply than we do. We should all understand that’s literally been proven false.
Nah, they are still catching them for the dozens of sea life attractions in China
@@Automedon2 Sigh. Yep. That’s why I added “mostly.” There’s also whaling in Japan, Faroe Island annual slaughter. Not to mention secondary impacts like dams on Washington orcas food supplies. At least most people have sympathy, that’s a start, gives me hope.
I agree. She needs to be out now! Been hearing about this for a while now and yet she's still in that fish bowl....😡
This breaks my heart💔 will she truly be able to survive in the wild after being in captivity for over 50 years 🥺 especially with them stating "she doesn't know fish are real food"
STOP. They plan on releasing her to a seaside sanctuary.
She will have a whole team still caring for her. They are moving right with her
I still think it's a bitter sweet ending. It's better then not trying! Rest In Keiko, I'm super excited for her and what this may mean to other captive whales 🐋 ❤
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This is my worry hope she's OK beautiful majestic animal
I can not wait to witness this day that she's free!!!!
And now we will never witness it 😥😥 as she died.
This makes me cry. God bless you.
How anyone can justify kidnapping a living creature and holding it captive for any length of time, let alone 50 years, for greed is beyond me. But to kidnap such a large, intelligent creature, and force it to live in these conditions is CRIMINAL. The fact that some people are debating whether captive orcas should be returned to the wild or not, just because a couple orca pods are sinking boats sickens me. I’m surprised that whales and dolphins haven’t turned against humans already!
Totally agree one hundred percent! As to upending boats: who cares? It's their environment. We humans think we own both the sea and the land. We have also taken over the nighttime hours with our ceaseless 24 hour activity, disrupting the lives of nocturnal animals. Going back to the ocean, if we humans choose to encroach in the natural habitat of other species, then we should also accept that there are risks and responsibilities which come with it.
i hope she gets some company. i would hate it if her sanctuary had no friends. she is already so isolated. just worrying she can't wait so long or that the travel will be long and tiring for her. Hoping for the best outcome
"Feedom isnt given, its taken."
Good luck Toki! God bless you and keep you safe and healthy 🙏💖
We need to stop taking wild animals and keeping them for our own amusement! How would each of us like to be captured and kept in a tiny cage for somebody else's amusement for almost our entire life? People can be so heartless and ugly!
I don't get how toki is going to be able to adjust to something else after 53 yrs?! I think it's gross we did that to her, but now all that orka knows is being in a small confined tank dealing w humans. The whole thing is sad, but hearing there is a sanctuary created seems like she might have a chance
how beautiful. i wish we could do this for all the captive wild animals we stole, but this is a good start 😊
She will survive that's her true environment. Every part if her was made for that
Mother Earth bless this beautiful lady, keep her strong, and let her live the life You
Ordained for Her. Better a year of freedom than 10 a prisoner. Shame on those who made this hell happen. 😕
God bless this man.
God bless everyone especially the guy fronting the cash!!❤❤❤
What on earth is this guy thinking? I mean wild animals have instincts that the whales captures stripped Toki of when they kidnapped him from his pod over 50 years ago, they know they gotta hunt, eat, know how to work as a team or pod, and reproduce. Toki doesn't even know how to have fun as an orca in the wild with other orcas. This guy, even though his intentions are good and from a place of love, is not thinking of Toki's all around best interest. That orca is now a domesticated animal, its learned how to trust humans for all of its needs to be met. Even though they are gonna put him in a controlled area of the ocean where the pod he was kidnapped from as a child, he cannot survive on his own and doing this could actually end the poor whales life. I know he feels horrible for this animal but to put this whale back into an enclosed part of the ocean and for him to see other orcas for the first time in 50 years, could be overwhelming and cause that poor animal so much anxiety and stress is playing Russian roulette with this whales life. We seriously need to stop all forcible capture of wild animals for our entertainment and trials for chemicals and cosmetics. I still believe that as the so called most evolved mammals on this planet we are the worst predator to other forms of wildlife and nature this world has ever seen. Can you imagine being torn away from the only family you've ever known, being transported to a pool and being forced to comply to another species orders through training and in most cases pain. As a species we are all consuming, narcissistic, mean, corrupted, have a God complex, naive, stupid, unruly, dishonest, disobedient, egocentric, disgusting, polluting, littering, heartless creatures in the universe. Instead of investing finances to fix and clean the planet we are slowly killing, we look to other planets to repeat this same process and leave carnage and destruction in our wake. So sad
We need start a program for retirement with other Orcas, any wild born should have the chance of returning to their own pods. All these animals locked in bathtubs around the world is unacceptable continuous abuse physically and mentally. Good luck to her 💕💕💕
What we should do is not have captive bread or wild orcas. They belong in the wild. As do all other animals... places that use animals for humam entertainment all need to close down.
Since they're gonna release her back into the wild, the veterinarians and the trainers needs to make sure that she'll be ok but locate her family first before releasing her from animal sanctuary sea pen and maybe teach her to cut off contact from humans so she can be with her family in the wild. First thing is to teach her how to hunt in the sea pen with live fish and more. If she's fully recovered and ready to be released, then she's ready to go back to be with her family. She's a beautiful animal that deserves to be free. Sending prayers for her
They are releasing her into a sanctuary, not the wild, poor girl wouldn’t survive out in the wild, her team will be at the sanctuary to take care of her so she can be happy and healthy 🥰
@@ninalove3044 That's true. But the one thing is that they're still looking for her family and her pod, they're out there somewhere. I agree that the sanctuary is perfect for rehabilitation so she'll be good as new
I am nearly SURE, they ARE AWARE of EVERYTHING.
This may not be a good idea. The whale in Free Willy didn't adjust to being released very well as it was very lonely and died prematurely.
Shame on those people who took her out of her home all those yrs ago!!!! Leave these animals alone! God did not put them here for human entertainment!!!
The determination of "friends of toki" is beautiful! Even if she can't be reunited she will be in a sanctuary!
My name is Anthony Volo I praise these guys doing this and back then 1000 percent and all my friends should too if you know me please help them get this done 👍
All them parks should be be closed down and never be allowed to open again their animals and should be free their not their for human entertainment I hope she makes a great life in the wild ❤
I saw the movie Blackfish, cried all the way through it.😢She needs to be back home and hopefully her family is still alive waiting for her. I can’t imagine the life she has had and what she has had to endure. Godspeed Toki❤
They are also letting Toki’s buddy, a dolphin go with her to help keep her calm. Thanks to the owner of the Indianapolis Colts football team for the money and support. I hope this all goes smoothly. It will be a tough journey. Will be praying and watching.
A once wild free living magnificent creature had its place in the ocean only to be captured at the hands of some wicked evil human monsters and totally robbed of its natural life. I am sorry to say the whale may feel afraid of it’s new surroundings and could be traumatised especially at its older age , a gradual introduction is critical for her wellbeing into the wild. I truly hope this beautiful animal live her last few years in peace and freedom .❤❤
My father took me to sea world when I was a little girl and I’ll never forget how sad I felt for this beautiful creation to be in captivity against his will. I have taught my children growing up the zoos and marine parks are merely for human amusement at the cost of these amazing beautiful creatures, freedom and lives. For this amazing smart creation, it must’ve been like a life sentence in a prison cell! I pray for your safe return, and I pray that your pod will except you with love! The heartbreak to know that they snared you and stole your life out of your beautiful open habitat for the amusement of people! Please father God give her the freedom to live her final days in complete peace with her own kind! I believe the reason that they started attacking humans working with them, is due to losing their minds being trapped in isolation. May God bless your journey home sweetheart
Same as me, I could not stand zoos or marine parks. I am glad that we are way better than the generation which locked this beautiful creatures in captivity.
They are on borrowed time it's cruel and inhumane urgent action is needed doing something about it not fishing paper and red tape is inconsequential to saving this another orcas❣ I'm sure they will all have trackers and be monitored I hope that's what they deserve and said of always had is there freedom❣🙏🏻
Sadly not all of this is true there are successful breeding programmes to get endangered species back where they should be and not in zoos
Wether or not he will remember what to do after fifty years away will be up to I think a good soft release programme which they should rightfully give him as he has earned ever🎉y single penny of it.
When I was about seven my mom took me to SeaWorld in Orlando and I actually got to do the demonstration live on stage with the and it was a beautiful unique experience but those times are over and I really pray that this experiment goes right. And this woman is absolutely right that they are attacking us because we are attacking them and they know it. They are smarter than we think. They are the same species as us. They have the same brains as humans and considering that they're actually so much larger they have to be more intelligent I would assume so yeah let nature be nature and view it from afar... Captivity is over 💯🙏✌️😪🙋
Oh my goodness after 50 yrs in captivity. Will Ocra know how to survive, defend herself ???
She is being released to a sanctuary
This should have been done for her long ago,but hopefully it will be good for her. And thank you to those who haven't forgotten her and are helping her to go home
I really hope this is true she needs to go home to her pod.
They can make a tank with access to ocean.
She can come and go as she feels comfortable.
She must be with her people!!!!
Thanks so much for all the efforts to make the whale free..
They should put their captures in a close water tank for 50 years
That's a great idea. They should also be made to "perform" before an audience, day in, day out, going nuts!
I hope everything goes ok for toki so glad it's getting out of that awful pool its kept in ❤
Toki is likely "institutionalized" and being hand fed. Wonder if can survive in the open ocean?
She will need to be taught how to hunt again with live fish and other prey. In the meantime, they staff should locate her original pod/family to try and reunite them.
Will she be ok after all these years?
Please God make this tragic story have a happy ending 😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This is 😢. If this organization was MAKING MONEY they would have her out ASAP!! She’s got anxiety due to what’s been done to her
There are some sickeningly greedy people, who think money is more important than animal's/ mammals welfare. The terror of being caught, then confined and made to "perform"
Honestly I don't go and see all those poor animals on that condition it breaks my ❤ and I teach my kids about that cruelty
Well done
God bless her , well done team Toki. Nothing will replace half a century of captivity and human ignorance but perhaps a better quality of life in her closing years 🙏💗
I think Seaworld should pay for the arrangements to have a release, and they should do it with each retired orcas because you’re the one the most benefit financially from the exploitation of this beautiful creature for 50 years, they made more than anything that will cost to safely slowly releaser back to freedom or leave early golden years in a nice century instead of a bathtub in Miami that’s like probably 90° every freaking day freaking
Many thanks to all involved in the return of this beautiful creature to its natural habitat…I pray all goes according to plan and wish her the very best in her remaining years😕🦈
It's going to have a hard time out there,Goodluck mate.
As a child I grew up going to aquariums because I loved animals and I didn't understand captivity and actually was one of the children to be picked on stage to do the live performance😮 I was maybe seven SeaWorld in Orlando in the year Versace the fashion designer was shot by Andrew cunanan and I actually got to see the houseboat where he... But I digress, it was with the whales and dolphins and it was one of the most unique experiences from my childhood and I would never regret it for anyting but those days are over and I really think we need to repay what we did to these precious animals. They're way more like humans than we ever thought😢
I hope she does well and paves the way for all the other orcas kept in captivity I am really rooting for her this could be huge
That's just cruel to release back into the wild...y'all just don't want to bury her when she dies...
STOP. They plan on releasing her to a seaside sanctuary.
They will 100% dissect her when she dies. They didnt guess that keiko had pneumonia. They're sure of it for a reason
Also i def think this is sad either way. There's no way to reverse what happened to her and it's a crapshoot just movin her over there at this point, let alone actually releasing her successfully, the poor thing. Fingers crossed for the best outcome possible tho 🤞🏾
This is amazing. It is a vile practice. Utterly dispicable. I'm so glad they are not dumping her into the ocean without first, help. And this footballer is super for paying for it. And these chaps who want to rescue her are truly the best.
Well done!!! I hope you succeed in freeing all of them, it's so wrong the way all these beautiful sea mammals are confined to these dreadfully tiny pools for fun!!!
Will he be able to find his pod that they took him from? Bc they stay together for life. I hope so! It's hard to believe it's still legal to capture these creatures and keep them in captivity like this.
Idk it’s like dumping your goldfish into the lake. Or a prisoner in the center of New York City. The temperature change can’t really be managed either. People who caught whales who were healthy are monsters
I just hope that this beautiful animal will have a successful life of adapting into the wild. Most of the time animals in captivity don't have a good chance of surviving in the wild because they weren't able to learn the necessary skills to be able to survive.
He has my support
They are taking too long to move her.😭
This is insane .They should free all the whales there not pets
Please get her home now!
I’m born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. I live near the passage where Tokitae was captured. Her mama is still out here. She’s 90+ years old and still looking for her baby. It’s tragic that she never got to see her again.
Poor beautiful Orca get her home NOW she should never of been held!!!!
WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU GET THIS RELEASE DONE SOONER❣ ???
Hopefully, she can learn the communication of another Pod and join them. It's hard for ones in captivity to return safely because socially others in the wild often reject them. Hope it works out.
I praythat all goes well with her release. Toki needs to be among her own kind, and free! Give her the space she deserves. Let her know what real living is.❤️
I really hope she's successful. 💜 She's going to need a lot of rehabilitation. She knows nothing about being back in the ocean. 😭
SeaWorld is not longer in my visits, we used to go there me and my daughter, but why day she told she not longer wants to visit Seawold because they keep the animals in cages . She was 8 years old then . Now she is 14 and we have not visit it since .
Purely down to greed and money…..set this whale free
He's beautiful
This is heartbreaking, those beautiful free spirited wild animals captured for human entertainment, 50 long years. I was not even born I can't bear the idea of this beautiful animL in captivity swimming in a fishbowl his whole life 🐬🤦♀️
Hopefully she can survive after being held all these years!
They are releasing her to a sanctuary and her team will be there to care for her, so she will be safe and happy!
Is this fair? Can she live if she is no longer wild? Will other Wales accept her can she manage to feed herself?
Her name is Tokitae! I don't know why they start shortening it to Toki! Irritates the heck out of me! It has been Tokitae for a long time! She is a member of the Southern Resident orcas (SRKW), they reside in the waters of the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. I live on an island in the Salish Sea and see her relatives often.
Tokitae, may your journey be safe and may your will be strong!
She needs to go back to her family her calls are heartbreaking.. She wants to go back
Those horrible "men" had no right to capture those poor Orca's. Some of them died 😟 How would they like to be captured and put in prison?! Happy and safe future Toki 💛 when you're finally free 🐬🌊🌈
Don't stop, Phil ❤
You all are Wale Angels ❤ Thank you for save her life, it's sad they keep Animals in captive 😢😢
🎉 CAN NOT WAIT FOR HER TO RETURN HOME
Toki made parole!!! Yaaaay!! ❤❤❤....I pray she finds her pod.
Too sad they didn't do something like this for Kiska in Canada 😢
Not gonna lie, it broke my heart to see her being captured.
This is so sad 😢 if the move can be done successfully, I hope she'll survive the change after half a century of torture. Thanks and bless those who really care about Toki 🙏💙
Even if she gets there, gets sick and dies from being in a non sterile environment, she will be happier then in that cage
And to think that Lolita's mother is still alive and enjoying the freedom these intelligent creatures deserve. A blatant example of animal abuse: she was kept in a small tank for 50 years for the sake of profits for the Miami Seaquarium. How can the owners enjoy that money? Having lived for 40 years close to the Seaquarium, as a matter of principle, I never took my family there.
When is she being transported?
Hopefully this goes well
I dont think people are understanding this enough!!!!
50 years in captivity is going to make it very hard for her to adapt!!! i wish her the best of luck! and the most love, and i hope they take the right steps in releasing her and not just throwing her into the ocean and saying that's that.
doing it like that will likely cause her to die almost immediately because she now relies on humans to feed her
she probably doesn't even know how to hunt anymore.
YES YES!!!!
FREE THEM ALL!
FREE WILLY
Should NEVER have been permitted in the first place. Horrendous
Hopefully they will do a gradual rehab and release like they did with Keiko. Where he was able to come back to the sanctuary if he wanted to, but he mostly found swimming with wild orcas until he bacame ill and died peacefully in the sanctuary, of his own accord
Their releasing her because she s a senior whale and her life expectancy is short at this point in her age.
They don't want her to die on captivity so there releasing her back to wild. Its sad and pathetic I think
we love you toki ❤️ fly high you beautiful angel. They didn’t deserve you. those cries for help went unnoticed but i knew. you deserved none of it. poor baby. they were never going to let you go. swim freely with hugo my love ❤️ They didn’t deserve you. What she lived wasn’t a life. simply torture.
And how will she be able to survive there????!!!
Dear God,please PLEASE help this beauty and her human allies get her home. Please God.
Free her😢 this is heartbreaking
We have no idea what call of the wild has tortured this creature for 50yrs..stuck in a tank..thankfully we won't try this again.
One orca safe. Now let get the rest back out to sea. Terrible to see the state they are left to live in when taken care of by humans.
She's going to a sanctuary. Not the open ocean.
“Hasn’t had a live fish in 53 years”
She spent 50 years in a small jail, shame on every single person responsible for this.