After half a century in captivity, Tokitae the performing orca could finally go home

[Jirel]

1. This is idiotic.

What a fancy way to retraumatize an orca with no clue how to survive in the wild, and watch her die. Whatever side you’re on when it comes to wild animal capture for captivity, once you have an imprinted animal, which has not spent significant time in the wild to learn its natural roles and behaviors, it is cruel to dump that animal back into the wild and watch it slowly die in confusion, loneliness, and inability to care for itself.