While initial reports suggest that the orca may have died from renal failure, there may have been another contributing factor: the water quality of her tiny tank.
South Florida is still mourning the Miami Seaquarium’s orca Lolita, who died last week, and now activists are hoping her death spurs the release of SeaWorld’s Corky.
died from a suspected renal condition. pita called the tank the smallest, bleakest orca tank in the world. the see kwar yum did not respond to nbc s request for comment we are feeling a lot of pain and sorrow for lolita now. reporter: the ones that pressed for her release that she never lived to see, heartbroken. marissa, what do we know about the other animals held at the seaquariun with lolita reporter: so the original plan was to have dolphins join lolita to their new home in the sanctuary. obviously with her passing, activists are pushing for the plan to stay the same for the dolphins we haven t heard back yet from the seaquarium on what the new plans will be. jose. marissa parra in miami, thank you. we are back in a moment with a shocking moment of an airline pilot striking a parking gate with an ax why he says he did it.