which millions of school kids “rescued” Keiko. It is the smallest pool for any orca in North America. For the first 10 years, she had the companionship of Hugo, another Southern Resident orca, but since his death in 1980 (he died of an aneurysm after years of bashing his head on the walls of the pool where Lolita still lives, in what has been described by whale activists as a suicide), Lolita has been alone in the tank with only the companionship of dolphins and her human trainers.
