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Plan will return orca to Pacific Northwest home 52 years after capture

Por: Portland Press Herald World April 01, 2023

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Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in 1995. Nuri Vallbona/Miami Herald via AP, file MIAMI — More than 50 years after the orca known as Lolita was captured for public display, plans are in place to return her from the Miami Seaquarium to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest, where a nearly century-old, endangered killer whale believed to be her mother still swims. An unlikely... + full article



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