Is Lolita happy at the Seaquairum?
Seaquarium Says: She is part of our family and we take very good care of her. TRUTH: Lolita is forced to perform two shows daily, seven days a week, 365 days a year. She is rewarded with food for her performances. If she doesn’t perform properly, the whistle isn’t blown and she doesn’t get the fish. Trainers call this “positive reward.” From Lolita’s point of view, it is food deprivation. She gets her exercise by swimming around and around in a constant holding pattern and has been repeating this psychotic behavior in an illegal substandard archaic tank for 33 years. The Seaquarium’s first orca Hugo was captured from the same pod as Lolita. He was worked to death in just 10 years. The Seaquarium tossed his body in the Dade County dump. Throughout the entire park there is not one memorial for Hugo to be found! He’s a forgotten soul, a victim to a heartless industry, lost forever, but not forgotten.
