Protestors outraged as Lolita the orca's body is transported from Miami Seaquarium in a truck
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Aerial and cell phone video show Lolita the orca being transported from Miami Seaquarium after her death on Friday.
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THERE NEEDS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THIS WHALE'S DEATH. I wouldn't be surprised if the Aquarium "planned" or at least hoped for it. She was a total liability to them now that she could no longer perform. They didn't even respect her enough to keep her tank clean - you wouldn't let a guppy live there, let alone this magnificent creature if you cared about and RESPECTED her. Reports are that they were giving her rotten food. How long can an animal live like this? Who does that to an animal and doesn't face abuse charges???? And now they were going to have to bear the huge expense of returning her to Puget Sound. I don't think they wanted to put one more dime into her. Her care alone must amount to animal abuse and the Aquarium should be held accountable. I hope there's a special place in Hell for those responsible.
Shes been swimming in un treated water, of her poop urine and collapsed paint... eventually poor animals organs cant take it..
She was killed. Not long after a big fish comes with financial support for her move. There was never any intention to set her free. There are people involved who truly wanted her free but not everyone. They put on a show for the last few months to quiet the people. Now they cash in on the insurance money which is reimbursement for the money they spent caring for her after she was retired from performing and not bringing in any money to the aquarium.
I thought the same thing! She was a good candidate for release because she was healthy and now a few months later she’s dead!?!? Something is not right!
A football team owner was the one who wanted to return her to her family and was paying over a million dollars to do so.
These murderers need to be jailed for years for animal abuse. If they were capable to kill an innocent animal, they will do the same to a person. Psychopaths. Lock them forever.
Why did it take for HER to be DEAD for people to transport her!!?? What happened when she was ALIVE WHY DIDNT PEOPLE MOVE THIS FAST TO TAKE HER OUT!!!!!! They NEGLECTED HER AND LEFT THERE TO DIE ON PURPOSE IDC WHAT NOBODY THINKS SHE WAS IN HORRIBLE CONDITIONS WITH A DIRTY POOL MAKE IT MAKE SENSE THE OWNER AND EVERYONE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH CRUELTY
The Colts owner was having a special plane built with an aquarium to transport her. It takes time for everything to be put into play.
Sudden illness? Seriously. Abandonment. She died of neglect and selfish human beings.
I'm heartbroken, I really thought she was gonna taste relative freedom again, even for a short while.
But at least she is free now, poor baby.
Free from being stuck in a bathtub and performing pathetic little tricks for dumb humans.
Rest in peace sweet Lolita. I'm so terribly sorry for this miserable life you've had.
Me too, bad day. She's free, but this release into captivity was to happen TWENTY YEARS AGO but the park held on to the moneymaker. I like how the Peta woman, said that at least She's not waking up another day to captivity, she wondered if Lolita could smell the sea that was so close to her
@@anndaniels3545you do realize if she was set free the whale would’ve died sooner since she didn’t know how to live on her own?
@@Topsealguyshe was going to a whale sanctuary with deeper waters, ocean water & if she coped with that well she would be slowly reintroduced to her family.
@@anndaniels3545 Am I the only one who's in stitches over that name?😆
I don’t know if I should cry 😢or be so pissed off that they kept her there forever till she gave up and passed away. This is so hard to believe… rest in peace Lolita ❤
Now she gets to swim freely forever. Rip Long live Lolita. 🌅
I am truly embarrassed to be a human.
Have you tried becoming a dolphin? There's a surgery for that. I saw it on South Park.
@@crewchief5144 lol wow! what a mind-blowing concept!! Truly appreciate such a suggestion.
There are things much worse than this to be embarrassed to be a human.
Sad thing too is that Lolita would probably have died shortly after her release. When you keep an animal like that in captivity for many years the damage is done.
I just found out...I have been following her on and off for years now. She was finally about to get a chance to be in natural waters again, swim deeper than that tiny bathtub. Shame on the previous Park owners who should have allowed this so many years ago. Maybe she could have lived a fuller life, had that chance she deserved to maybe hear her family's calls again. She's so strong to have survived so long in captivity. Rest in peace...I hope you're swimming free now. 💙🌊
So just before they have spend millions of dollars to free her she dies 🤔
Prayers and Condolences.
Swim free beautiful baby. I fought for you for so many years.
Me too! Just learned of her the past 5 years- it killed me then, her story!!! No more tank!! Swim with the Angels!!!🎉❤
That sea jail needs to be DEMOLISHED as soon as possible.
The entire Aquarium should be. Hopefully caring people boycott and they go out of business.
What the hell did they expect them to use to transport her?
rainbows and unicorns..that's how people are now
That's I'm wondering. They don't exactly make Cadillac hearses in her size. Protesters are ridiculous.
With the power of protest of course. How else would they get on the news.
These people are dimwits. Get a damn life for goodness’ sake. Smdh
the protesters were upset because she died in captivity… not because of how the aquarium carried her lifeless body away.
That’s why I’m not even mad that those orcas were attacking all them boats
No this is ugly stuff. Orcas belong in ocean free.
You are able to use google right? Why not use it to find out why Lolita couldn't be set free? Others were freed but she was likely to die in the wild.
@@lumindina699ok
Lolita should never have been captured in the first place. Lolita should never have been used to "entertain” people, especially for profit. What a stupid, moronic, cruel, inhumane industry. That is the point. Period.
@@BeBeBraveSpirit There are so many cruel things that happened. Lolita and all the other Orcas were caught over 50 years ago. That has ceased being something that happens in this country. All the Aquariums and Zoos are complying, The circuses and pet stores and every other animal related business are being monitored for other animals. What are you protesting now? When it comes to the Orcas, what few remain in captivity or come into it is to save their lives, and gives the ones who cannot be released due to injuries or other health issues in a safe and as good as humanly possible environment. At least they stand a chance at life with in those circumstances. When any animal is stressed or depressed they suffer both physically and mentally and the health declines quickly. As far as we see, these few are thriving well in the aquariums that still work with recues and rehabs. So leave them alone FFS. You are barking up the wrong tree to not look like fools. Go be an ambassador where it is needed. The Orcas have been saved long ago.
It’s not the truck drivers fault. Your protesting people that didn’t have a say. Protest the ceo, protest the owners! Those are people who deserve it.
Rip Lolita..
Hey, friend- they are upset, because Hugo, her orca companion who died in 1980 ( from banging his head repeatedly into concrete tank walls) was removed the same way. Some of the people hollering were actually there, when Hugo left on a truck. Aquarium didn't reveal his gravesite saying " so no mourners would try to take a piece of his corpse" but it was a secret place...come to find out the dumped him in the Dade county landfill and his body was found there years later. Right now Lolita is going to the University of Georgia for autopsy. It is rumored foul play was involved here!!!
@@anndaniels3545 I hear you but yelling at truck drivers are not the people to scream and protest. They are hired to move it and that is all. I don’t like that either was in captivity but putting their voices towards the people in charge. Is what is necessary. To effect change and hold them accountable or larger animal rights organizations. Maybe even the state.
@@anndaniels3545 Also rumored...alien snack pack factory for Martian children. This whale will last them a decade a least.
Rumors...I can make them up too.
@@crewchief5144I am super upset about Toki's death but alien snack pack made me laugh. Thank you😂
I love 💕 you Lolita. Rest in Peace. Swim free in the after life. You are a free now. ❤️
She is probably sushi out in some restaurant
This wasn't graphic at all
She was capture in 1970. Was suppose to finally be released after 54 yrs. Of captivity.
1970-2023= 34 years 🤔
Did you bother to find out WHY she was not let free? Oh of course not! Duh
@@StoneyGamerNetwork sorry 54 yrs
@@lumindina699 article said people stole her as a baby and sold to the zoo poir thing 😪
@@robs.8692 Yea it is sad. Fortunately things are not the same and captive keep ing of whales is not a thing but, have you seen the truth about how offshore wind farming is killing whales? Be advocate for this, I swear we have real battles instead of worrying about the captive orcas that have to be kept in captivity for their health and safety if not rehabilitable. But our own government is sooooo sneaky! Watch the documentary called "Thrown to the Wind".
Why was the pools water so low if she passed that same day. 😠 😡
Too late to protest they should off protest to let her out early.😢
Being released would have killed Lolita. A few minutes googling why she was never released would inform you of that. OMG
@@lumindina699 They should off let her have her final days in the ocean instead of waiting for paper work. The 3 whale doctors said she can be released and they took the time to let her go all because of permits. For your information that it was said on the news check it out for yourself.
@@lumindina699 You are very wrong
If she had a liberal DA, she wouldn't have been kept in the first place.
They were literally protesting for her for decades. The previous park owners wouldn't budge cause she was such a money maker. Human greed once again. 😔😠
Oh now they r returning her to her home ???? After 50 years have been left alone ?! Seriously ?!! . Returning home for what she has died . It just make no sense why they do tht . Killer whale ?! Oh its bcuz mybe they dont understand how pressure lolita is to use to entertaint human ! So cruel !! I feel so sad and dissapointed having these kind of people .
I doubt they return her body to the ocean. They dumped her friend Hugo in Miami’s landfill.
No, Lolita's final home was the Miami Seaquarium. She may have been born in the Pacific Northwest, but that has not been her home for 50 years. She'll be necropsied and possibly be buried in Miami somewhere just like Hugo. Get over your soppy sentimental BS and grow up.
Personally, I don’t go to any Seaquarium😢 anymore. I’m tired of seeing animals in captivity They deserve to be left alone in the wild.
We should do that with tigers and pandas to😂
Many animals in captivity were born there nowadays, but I do agree, animals should be left in the wild if they can survive.
Captivity is fine for some.
@@outdoorsmen49 There are enough tigers in captivity that we could boost the genetic diversity of populations of the ones in the wild, if we reintroduced some of the captive tigers through born free rewilding techniques. I'm not saying we should release all captive tigers as many are severely inbred and therefor would be unfit for reintroducing into the wild in order to create genetic diversity in wild populations. The main issues with releasing tigers are Chinese poachers and not enough wild spaces in Asia to release them into. India is also one of the few Asian countries with tiger populations that actually takes conservation seriously. The rest don't really give a f%^k. Pandas on the other hand are f^&ked as a species without us to help them survive they'd already be extinct. Specialist species like pandas are usually the first to go during and extinction event as they can't exploit another food resource as they are too evolved to only eat one thing. Same thing happened to both Chalicotheres and Gigantopithecus that's happening to pandas and koalas now.
😢 😢 😭 this broke my heart literally
Just found out, you should see how swollen and red my eyes are. Heartbroken
I felt heartbroken, I just found out yesterday, I cried a lot for her. She deserved to be with her family.
Sadly she never got the freedom we all wanted to see.
This is heartbreaking. Swim free in the ocean of Paradise ( Heaven) Princess Toki. No more suffering in that horrendous sea jail. You are reunited with Hugo again; this time in freedom.
So tragic. Bless her poor soul. No more suffering. RIP. 😢😢
Where was the graphic content?
They splashed text on the screen during the video. Technically...graphics, layers and content.
Interesting timing.... dies right after being awarded freedom.....
😡😡😡😡😡
Rest in Peace Lolita
RIP I think those people knew exactly what they were doing and left her there to die on her own. Swim free know girl 😢❤
It’s horrible what they are doing to these orcas.
RIP dearest Lolita💔
The sad thing Is, I’m pretty sure they were planning to release her in November. It really is tragic the abuse these poor animals go through because of us. She was old, and it was going to happen eventually, but she shouldn’t have gone through years of captivity.
Theres still animals being neglected at this aquarium
Guess I’m confused, how was she going to be transported?? In the small bit of video shown, seems she was treated with respect. I wish she had died in her natural habitat but she wasn’t so treating her carcass respectfully seemed like the appropriate thing to do
@@PresidentPutin-ec7xo as she should have
@@Kiwi-ez2nnwhy? You don't believe all living beings deserve respect?
@@PresidentPutin-ec7xo That animal had a name. It was Tokitae. Her stage name ( in this case slave name ) was Lolita.
@Kiwi-ez2nn: At least these people covered Tokitae’s body after she passed away. Something, they never did with Hugo’s (Toki’s mate)body. His body was thrown out in the city’s garbage instead of burying him where he belongs: the ocean. I hope Toki will be buried in the Salish sea.
The activists were protesting because Tokitae instead of her getting out of that sea jail alive, she left deceased. The liberation plans came too late.
Poor Girl! Rest in Peace Lolita!
This is Very Heartbreaking
The disclaimer in beginning over a fish hahahaha gawd help us
"Lolita's body" 😂 You mean, carcass? It's not human.
humans can be carcasses given the right pov tbf
Whales can also be snack packs handed out to the homeless.
Just being pragmatic.
Liberals want us to eat bugs. I'm solving two issues at once.
Look at the inside of her water pen! Chipped paint.. filthy water... EDUARDO ALBOR - THE DOLPHIN COMPANY WILL FACE THE WRATH OF KARMA FOR THE INTENTIONAL ABUSE AND SUFFERING LOLITA LIVE DAY IN AND DAY OUT!!!
Why is it a warning?? Its just a dead fish! I am a fisherman I seen million of them.
Where they going to bring Lolita?
Atlanta for a necropsy
Coruscant
Anyone else feel like they never intended for her to be free? I think they euthanized her cause the alternative was too costly. I’m 😢 that we as humans were given dominion over the animals but this is how we treat them.
Sad!
RIP Lolita. Swim in heaven where you won't suffer anymore.
There is no Heaven
How did it die?😢
😮
😢😅ף
Renal failure. 😢
Cant flush that big thing down the toilet
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At last she has her freedom .What a civilaz world .
😢 I was there 6 years ago and saw her preform it suck to see her dead now
u all treated her like s---!!!!Liars and sabatoge!!!!You probably poisioned her!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha the fact that people care about this shows how easy their life is they have no issues to worried about so they have to manufacture there own distress. I wish they would just cut that thing up and serve it to the homeless it would be of better use.
It's odd people are concerned about this. Although I wouldn't give the homeless diseased meat.
Excuse me, it wasn't a thing, it was an Orca Whale who deserved to be free out in the ocean where she belonged!!!
How would you have liked to be
captured and live 50 years in an 8 by 10 cell??? Sure you wouldn't......
Obviously your not an animal lover to say the least.......
Disgusting at least she is in peace Rip Lolita
What did they expect them to do. Slice it up into whaleburgers?
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Her gelt she borned in your water .
Where's the fune going to be?
Personally I don’t go to sea quariums because I don’t like seeing animals in captivity. They deserve to be free and not to be used to entertain us. With that being said I agree with the person above who said “give it a Viking burial at sea.” Tow that 6 ton carcass out to sea and let nature take its course!!
Honestly, I am old, had to study and work out how to help many wild animals adapt to captivity, grow, breed and thrive. Chameleons being one of the hardest of all. The reason; In their natural habitats, in other countries using DDT and other chemicals along with the deforestations happening at fast rates lead to severe threats to several species of animals in a small area. One specie of Chameleon were showing mutations of the rostral horns being reduced by 1" over a 10 year period in the wild. Other serious threats to that same specie was sterilization of younger generations, Lowered life spans, smaller and weaker offspring overall. The species were endangered and no option left but to try to save their existence through captive breeding programs. Other species of many different animals throughout the decades have had their own breeding programs to help repopulate them in the wild when numbers are threatened towards extinction. Please, do not protest to cutoff all hopes to save the endangered wildlife. You have no idea how wide spread the extinction threats are even in our own country and these breeding programs begin with adapting the animals to captivity. Much goes into that including diet, stress reduction methods and more. Become active in these type of programs and support them instead, be an ambassador to these beautiful and unique creatures. The sea aquariums were done before any awareness was done or studies completed. That has changed but the few left in captivity are there because those particular whales will not survive if released. Being set free is a definite death sentence.
@@lumindina699bullshit. Definitely death sentence ! That's ridiculous..there's many animals that were released into sanctuary's that mimicked the environment that they thrive in and they all survived. She was going into a SEAPEN and was going to be observed and taken care of. She would have made it. She belongs there !!!!
@@lumindina699 Finally someone who gets the harsh reality for many of these animals. Captivity may suck, but it's often times the only option for endangered species. Also most animals in zoos could not survive in the wild, Lolita included. Her mother in the wild has probably mourned and moved on, as life in the wild isn't exactly a cakewalk for animals either and death happens all the time.
@@slipstreamxr3763 If you look hard enough you can see some of the viedoes recorded on older attempts to free some of the orcas after being in captivity. The pods do not just accept an orca because it is an orca. It is horrifying, and there was a high risk of the pod she first comes across would just attack her. She did not know any behavior to go out with to help her be accepted into a pod of Orcas. People are clueless to think they could just set her free safely after 50 years in an aquarium!
@@slipstreamxr3763 Orcas are not endangered... Their only threat is us.
Only in America ...
Everywhere is polluted, cope.
RIP Dear Lolita. The ones who shortened your life will pay. You are the Recordkeeper. 🌈 💕
They did not shorten her life.
@@PresidentPutin-ec7xo If you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing. Animals have more feelings than humans
@@floridaroadways If you know Lolita’s history and how killer whales should be maintained, the former owners shortened ‘her’ life. Read up!
@@The6thelement9413 I read it. Lolita died of natural causes which is old age. What you’re saying the whale was abused.
@@floridaroadways She was absolutely abused. Captured with bombs for god sakes, and absolutely did not die of renal failure. Her mother is swimming around at ~100 years old
How sad. I am actually in tears right now thinking of that lonely orca lady - 50 years,& she never got to see her family ever again. Shameful.😢💔
That being said, the time to care about how someone ( human or non-)is treated is when they are ALIVE.
Once they have passed, my personal belief is that they are not there any more. Donate everything that can be of use to anyone - even if that use involves them as a subject for education.( I am talking dissection, here, folks)
I made sure that my mother was a donor; she saved a man's life,& he got to spend Christmas with his family. I have designated my own wishes, as well. Perhaps Toki may provide knowledge to save one of her species; who knows?❤
Wow that is deep,and very meaningful about your mother.
Whether the animal is still living, or dead, all I have to say is I AM NOW ON VACATION !!!
At least they will set her free like they wanted 🤣
RIP
Perhaps a coffin with 200 handles would have made them happier. Good thing they don't know what happens next.
rest in peace lolita.
sorry you died alone like that.
💖🐳💖😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Fishsticks for everyone!
Rip Lolita.
Personally, I would have given a burial at sea, Viking-style. :-) In any case, it really stinks that Lolita entered immortality, but she did nevertheless live a happy mortal life, loved & cared for by her human wards at the Seaquarium, & people will remember her for generations to come. ❤
She was caught in the wild and kept in a pool. Nothing 'loved and cared for' about that, sadly
@@wdldrose5468 Taken from the expert who knew nothing about her and why she couldn't be freed while all the others were. You are a cruel oaf really because her freedom would have been death for her at the highest chances. Stop being so stupid and ignorant and be more of an ambassador for those who have to be kept in captivity. If it were up to your type, we would have lost so many more species and individual creatures just because YOU think something but yet know too very little about the world around you. Your opinion is deadly in Lolita's case.
Care for happy etc ? No way
She’d prolly still be alive if those humans kept her in her natural habitat so hard no on everything you just said. They only contributed to the demise of this beautiful creature. Along with anyone who paid to enter this sea hell.
@@stormbeaver6290 well said
Rip time for a new one
beloved???She was NOT beloved!!!!To who????
To everyone
@@clayharris7740 I did not even know about her and since I don't know ANY whales...didn't even remotely care.
I say turn her carcass into snack packs for the homeless. I've said it a few times, but it solves two issues.
I don’t understand why those two or three unimportant people are angry though.
They mad that she died in an aquarium instead of the ocean naturally....but same time..the time to "PROTEST" WAS way before. Why wait till She's dead to do it?
How the hell else are you going to do it? Some people are so ridiculous. It’s a freaking whale.
They was mad about her dying in captivity....but it's dumb that they want to protests it now and not back when she was alive..
It's in the news..."WE CARE!"
It's happening everyday and not in the news...no Fs given.
These same people have a chance to send money to non-government agencies that protect whales, combat piracy off of Somalia and help move and house children away from working in diamond mines in Sierra Leone...but it's not in the news every ten minutes like the election that's over a year away.
You're right, those protestors were a bit graphic...
What a shame
Swim free lolita ❤🏞🐳🌅🌈
CAVEDWELLERS 🔥🗡🩸🙏🏿😵