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On November 4, 2024, the L Pod returned to Penn Cove for the first time in 50 years after surviving members had avoided the area and taught their offspring. L25 "Ocean Sun", Tokitae's mother, the only remaining Southern Resident that was alive during the captures, was among those present with L Pod as they entered Penn Cove on November 4. [133]
She was a close relative of L25 "Ocean Sun", who is the oldest member of the pod. After Lolita's death, L25 "is the only living whale from the 1960s and 1970s capture era." [3] Lolita was captured when she was an estimated three to six years old, [3] on August 8, 1970, in the Penn Cove capture in Puget Sound, Washington.
Lolita was a southern resident of the L pod, captured in Penn Cove in 1970, who spent the majority of her life at Miami Seaquarium in Florida. At the time of her death in 2023, she was the last remaining captive orca from the 1960s-1970s Washington captures, prior to the implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
More than 50 years after being captured in the Pacific Ocean and held for decades at the Miami Seaquarium, a plan to return Lolita the Orca to "home waters" to live out the rest of her days was ...
Orcas exist in oceans all over the world, from Arctic regions to tropical zones, and are notable for their distinctive, black-and-white coloration. There are several distinct groups of orca ...
The closest watched group of orcas in the world, the L-pod, made a rare appearance in Monterey Bay Sunday. Rare sighting of critically endangered L-pod orcas in Monterey Bay [Video] Skip to main ...
A turning point came with a mass capture of orcas from the L-25 pod on August 8, 1970, at Penn Cove in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. The Penn Cove capture became controversial due to the large number of wild orcas that were taken (seven) and the number of deaths that resulted: four juveniles died, as well as one adult female who ...
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