Tokitae, a Southern Resident killer whale that was held captive most her life, died in September. NOAA Fisheries has listed her cause of death as 'kidney failure.'
NOAA Fisheries, which has jurisdiction over the public display of orcas, has listed Tokitae's cause of death as kidney failure on documents that track all captive whales in the U.S.
"Miami Seaquarium was not legally required by NOAA to perform a necropsy on Tokitae nor to provide NOAA a copy of those results," reads the NOAA website after an early October update. Less than a week before her death, the Seaquarium provided a video with a member of her care team saying Tokitae hadn't slowed down despite her age. Even stating,"it seems like she's better than ever now."
The necropsy, itself, was controversial. Lummi Nation leaders considered Tokitae, or Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut as they called her, a family member.
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