Lolita the killer whale is recovering from an unspecified illness, Miami Seaquarium said in response to a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals report that the 56-year-old orca is “deathly ill” with pneumonia.
The Virginia Key marine park also posted a live Facebook video on Tuesday showing its iconic star in a stadium tank eating, playing and waving its pectoral fin.
Lolita, also known as Tokitae and by the nickname Toki, was diagnosed as “under the weather” after a routine blood test came back as abnormal, according to Seaquarium’s attending veterinarian, Dr. Shelby Loos.
