BREAKING | The Ontario government says Kiska, the last captive killer whale in Canada, has died.
The Canadian PressKiska the killer whale is seen in Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont. She is believed to have been 47 years old and was captured in Icelandic waters in 1979.A spokesperson for the solicitor general says Marineland — the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park where Kiska lived — told the province she died on Thursday.
Brent Ross says the province's Animal Welfare Services officers were on-site as Marineland performed a necropsy.She was captured alongside Keiko, who became famous in the movieWATCH | Activists voice concerns over Kiska:A video posted by Phil Demers, a former trainer at the Niagara Falls aquarium turned whistleblower, appears to show Kiska the orca floating listlessly and moving slowly.
"It is heartbreaking to know that Kiska will never have the chance to be relocated to a whale sanctuary, and experience the freedom that she so deeply deserved," Camille Labchuk, executive director of Animal Justice, said in a statement."We are calling on provincial authorities to make public the results of a post-mortem, and prosecute Marineland for the unlawful distress Kiska clearly experienced throughout her final years.
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