Ageing orca Lolita is set to be returned to the Pacific Ocean after more than 50 years of captivity - and to potentially reunite with her mother.
Lolita - also known as Tokitae - was around four years old when she was captured in the summer of 1970 during a period of deadly orca roundups, and has since been based at the Miami Seaquarium,Lolita was captured in 1970 in Puget Sound - an inlet of the Pacific Ocean located in the northwestern US state of Washington - and was bought by a Miami Seaquarium veterinarian.
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