FILE - Over 300 protesters gathered on Portage Road in front of Niagara Fall's Marineland Saturday August 18, 2012. (Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images)The killer whale named Kiska at Canada’s Marineland theme park, the country’s last captive orca who swam alone in her tank for more than a decade, has died.Brent Ross, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Solicitor General in Ontario that oversees animal welfare in the province, said Monday that the theme park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, informed the province of the death last week.Kiska was believed to be 47 years old and had lived at Marineland since being captured in Icelandic waters in 1979.
She was captured alongside Keiko, who became famous in the movie "Free Willy," and the pair lived together for a few years at Marineland in the 1980s.
Keiko was sold to an aquarium in Mexico in 1985 and eventually ended up at SeaWorld in the U.S.Kiska appeared in shows at Marineland for years but had not performed for more than a decade.