Although killer whales can swim up to 140 miles a day, orca Lolita, imprisoned in the Miami Aquarium for the past 50 years, will have to swim roughly the length of its faceless concrete reservoir. 66 times to cover only 1 mile… The tank is only four times as long as her body. Trapped in the smallest killer whale aquarium in the world, she hasn’t been able to dive or swim in any meaningful way since she was torn away from her family and home by the ocean. She has been unable to communicate with another member of her species since 1980, when her tank mate, Hugo, died after repeatedly hitting her head against a wall. Anyway, you can help end her cruel and senseless captivity.
In Pisces season and always help protect marine animals
PETA Latino held another demonstration outside the Miami Marine Aquarium to demand that Lolita be released into the appropriate coastal hideout. To kick off the event, the group unveiled a huge banner, with attendees and supporters walking towards the facility. Excited protesters confronted visitors with Lolita’s intolerable living conditions right before the sea animal prison opened.
PETA Latino has visited the Miami Marine Aquarium four times over the past year, asking them to end decades of bullying Lolita has suffered and release her to the sea shelter.
PETA Latino asks today @MiamiSeaquarium End the decades of heinous torture he inflicted on Lolita NOW.
DON’T LEAVE ANY MORE and help us release her to the coastal hideout NOW: https://t.co/THHaiYjLlj pic.twitter.com/16H2Eqern7
– Latino Map (@PETA_Latino) October 6, 2020
Don’t let Lolita suffer any more – act now
If you don’t live close enough to personally protest the Miami Marine Aquarium, there are still ways to get active.
Start today sending a message to the parent company Miami Seaquarium… It only takes a few seconds, and it will give the company a sense that the public will not stand aside while highly social, intelligent killer whales are confined by cramped reservoirs and forced to perform for people’s entertainment.
Demand Lolita’s release NOW!
Want to do more?
Call Miami Marine Aquarium at 305-361-5705, press 6 and politely convince him to send Lolita to rest in the seaside reserve…
Talk about Lolita on the Miami Seaquarium Instagram page
Talk about Lolita on the Miami Seaquarium Facebook page