Part of the push to return Tokitae from the Miami Seaquarium to her native waters came due to concerns about her mental and emotional health. Tokitae was taken from Puget Sound in the 1970s when she was around four years old and has spent the last 53 years in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium where she performed under the name Lolita. She is known to the Lummi nation as Sk’aliCh’elh’tenaut. While the size and environmental differences between marine tanks and the ocean are obvious, researchers say there are also contrasts in social interaction and daily stressors that impact the sophisticated brains of marine mammals. Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/orcas/tank-ocean-orca-whales-mental-health-tokitae/281-4e103f48-2091-4c57-b5f0-1cf93786dfc5