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Do you agree with capturing orcas?

2020-08-13

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Orca activists in Washington State on Saturday held a three-hour Zoom gathering to mark the 50th anniversary of Miami Seaquarium killer whale Lolita’s capture. Lolita, named Tokitae by Native Americans, was estimated to be four years old on Aug. 8, 1970, when her captors in planes and boats, and using explosives, rounded up her family pod in the shallow waters of Penn Cove in Puget Sound just to the northwest of Seattle.

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Sam Cheyne

2020-08-13

No! I say that without reservation

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