The plan for Toki isn’t to drop her in the Salish Sea and hope for the best.
Lolita, the southern resident orca who has spent more than half-a-century at the Miami Seaquarium, is being returned home to the Salish Sea. Maybe.
That’s why people who started fighting to free her preferred the name she received after being caught in a net at Penn Harbor in Washington in 1970 — Tokitae — a Coast Salish greeting that means “nice days, pretty colours.”The Lummi Nation has been fighting for Toki’s release for years, and consider her a member of their family. They formally named her Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut in 2019. If this orca with many names is returned to the Salish Sea, the Lummi will be involved with caring for her.
So, to the surprise of no one who knew anything about wild whales, Keiko never found his pod and preferred to hang out with humans since — unlike orcas from other pods — humans were more likely to feed him than fight him. Some of Toki’s trainers are issuing dire warnings that if she’s sent home she will die here. Of course she will. And if she stays in Miami she will die there. And she will die there in some of the worst conditions any captive orca has ever been held in.
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