Lolita, an orca captured when she was just four years old, has been held in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium for over forty years. She was never there for rehabilitation, but instead, she was purchased by the Seaquarium to become a male orca's companion. The male orca died by ramming his head into the side of their shared tank. That was over thirty years ago.

Now, Lolita sits in a pool alone. As a highly intellegent and social creature, it's questionable why Lolita has been kept alone for over thirty years. She lives in the United States' smallest and oldest orca tank. The Seaquarium's orca tank violates the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and the Department of Agriculture's size regulations. Lolita's tank comes up 13 feet short of what the AWA legally requires. If the Miami Seaquarium cannot afford to expand Lolita's tank to a legal size, then they should work towards releasing her into a seapen. Other legal organizations have already planned to help prepare Lolita for release into a monitored seapen, where she could potentially rejoin her family. Action needs to be taken to save Lolita. At the very least, she deserves to live out the remainder of her life in a legal tank. Palace Entertainment and the Miami Seaquarium need to remodel Lolita's tank, or face retiring her from performing.