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A timeline of Tokitae's capture and the efforts to bring her home
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Tokitae is the last surviving orca of the whales that were captured from Puget Sound and sold into captivity.
KING 5 was there when Tokitae was violently taken from her pod in August 1970 near Whidbey Island's Penn Cove. The people who collected the orcas for aquariums were using planes to spot them, and explosives to separate the adults from the young.
Several orcas died during the roundups.
Tokitae was sold to the Miami Seaquarium for about $20,000. She was believed to be just four years old.
Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/timeline-tokitae-efforts-bring-her-home/281-6c53a7c1-ced9-4805-980d-57daa0e30431