Fifty-two years after Lolita the killer whale entered captivity, the orca may return ... who was removed from the wild and transported to the Miami Seaquarium in 1970, according to The Guardian.

It also resulted in the release of a real-life whale named Keiko. Keiko was the 15-year-old orca that played Willy in the ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists on the Pacific Coast of North America held two basic assumptions about the killer whale (Orcinus orca): first ... Both turned out to be wrong, and it was ...

In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers their entire lives, but since she didn’t grow up with her family, she never learned how to be a mother herself. “She needed other whales with her ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The killer whale Tokitae, also known as Lolita, may finally be released after more than 50 years in captivity in the world's smallest orca enclosure. Billionaire ...

Most experts agree that releasing the two whales, which are Icelandic orcas specifically, into the wild would not be suitable as both were born in captivity and would not have the skills to survive.

Lolilta was removed from the wild when she was about 4 years old, making her roughly 57 years of age today. Lolita is believed to be the oldest orca whale in captivity. She also lives in one of ...

There are very few documented cases of orcas attacking humans in the wild ... aren’t sure why the captive orcas attacked, and many still debate if that was the whales’ intent.

These roundups have affected whale populations for decades. Tokitae, or Lolita, was an orca who was captured in a separate roundup in 1970. Tokitae remained in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium ...

Orcas are toothed whales and are closely related to narwhals ... Unlike orcas encountering people in the wild, in captivity, the story is different. There have been dozens of violent encounters ...