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under an agreement with regulators. The 5,000-pound animal lives in a tank 80 feet by 35 feet and 20 feet deep.
Plans call for bringing Lolita to a netted whale sanctuary of about 15 acres . She would be released into an enclosure the size of a couple football fields within that sanctuary, where she would be under round-the-clock care. Because the southern residents are endangered, advocates would have to obtain additional permits if they ever wanted to return Toki fully to the wild. Advocates would likely have to show that introducing another aging whale to feed wouldn't burden the population further.
"Until she’s returned to her family, our family is broken," Morris said. "When she comes home, the web of life will be repaired and restored, and our people will be repaired and restored."When all the pieces are in place — which could take two years — Lolita will be placed on a stretcher. She'll be lifted by crane into a tank placed on a truck, and the truck driven to a cargo plane.
Keiko was about 2 when he was captured in 1979. He spent time in Iceland and Canada before being sold in 1985 to a theme park in Mexico City, where he lived in a tank filled with tap water mixed with salt. "We already knew how easy it is to capture whales," Vinick said. "What we learned with Keiko is how difficult it is to put one back."
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