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A Puget Sound orca in captivity: the fight to bring Lolita home
| Title | A Puget Sound orca in captivity: the fight to bring Lolita home |
| Names | Pollard, Sandra. |
| Book Number | DBC15882 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | In 1970, an orca given the name Tokitae was captured in the waters of Puget Sound. She was taken to Miami, renamed Lolita, and put in a concrete tank where she has been performing for tourists ever since. This is the story of the attempts to win back her freedom along with the other orcas who have been captured and put on public display. 2019. Adult. Unrated. |
| General Notes | Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. |
| Local Notes | "On August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young whales. Between 1964 and 1976, dozens of these now-endangered orcas were torn from their home and sent to marine parks around the globe. Just over a decade later, all but one had died. This lone survivor is Tokitae, also known as Lolita, and she's spent most of her life performing at the Miami Seaquarium. For twenty years, the Orca Network has called for her release, and now the indigenous Lummi Nation, People of the Sea, have joined the fight. Author Sandra Pollard chronicles the extraordinary effort to bring Tokitae home." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Narrator | Godfrey, Debra. |
| Length | 1 online resource (audio (5 hours, 26 minutes)) |
| Local Subject | Northwest nonfiction - NW2 |
| Animal non-fiction - AN2 | |
| Adult book - AD | |
| Nonfiction - NF | |
| Produced at WTBBL - PAW | |
| Animals and wildlife - AN | |
| Nature and the environment - SC13 | |
| LC Subject | Captive marine mammals |
| Offshore whaling |
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| Whaling |
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| Pacific Area |
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| Puget Sound (Wash.) |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Unrated. NLS/BPH |
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| Call Number | 599.536 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2019 |
| Publication Info | Seattle : Arcadia Publishing Inc. 2019 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2019. 9781467140379 |
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