< Dolphins
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- Elfangio0
yes I am ashame of being a human right now!
- paraselene0
no sound here. why are they killing them?
- Bottlerocket0
Same here. That was truly awfull. OI had to turn it off.
I can watch any video game and movie violence but that made me sick to the pit of my stomach.
- paraselene0
what does the narration say? why are they doing it?
- de4k0
It's a once a year harvest thing...
- phatlee0
Thats awful...
- set0
some scientists are getting ever closer to the conclusion that some species of animals do have feeling and emotions.
just so you know.
Crouwel
(Nov 16 06, 02:53)To even suggest that animals don't have emotions or feelings is absolute human ignorance
- Crouwel0
link?
- mpfree0
actually, a recent study shows that dolphins are very mean to each other. especially the males. you know that happy little image where they are crusing in front of a boat and you think they are happy? that's actually an alpha male dolphin beating the hell out of the younglings in the gut.
- set0
FUUUUUUUUCK. I'm sure we as a race will get whats coming to us.
- Bluejam0
maybe one day they will fight back?
- Crouwel0
i think i don't want to see that. not until i finished my tuna sandwich anyway.
:(
- mpfree0
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildl…
Scientists began discovering dead harbor porpoises washing up on Scottish shores eight years ago. In many instances, the little porpoises´ bodies looked relatively unscathed but postmortem work found that the animals´ internal organs were shattered. In subsequent years, dozens of the dead, battered creatures surfaced in Scottish waters.
"The cause of their internal injuries was a mystery for several years," says Ben Wilson, a dolphin expert at the University of Aberdeen who was part of a team that eventually solved the puzzle with the aid of a videotape shot by an amateur dolphin watcher. The deaths, Wilson discovered, are caused by beatings delivered by the harbor porpoise´s larger relative, the bottlenose dolphin, a creature familiar to television watchers from the series Flipper. The bottlenose, it seems, can deliver devastating, quick blows with its beak and tail. The discovery is just one of several recent findings that are changing the way we look at one of the ocean´s most fascinating creatures.
Behind the dolphin´s fixed, smilelike gaze and remarkable intelligence lurks a creature that sometimes indulges in acts of violence against both other species and its own kin. That fact is being substantiated by dolphin-behavior expert Richard Conner, whose research reveals that male Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins form groups that function much like roving gangs of human hoodlums. They clash with other groups and rob one another of the great prize of the dolphin realm: mates. Sometimes, Connor notes, two groups of males will form an alliance to fight another group or alliance of groups. His work is preliminary, a scant hint at the secrets still to be wrested from dolphin society.
- stewart0
i don't eat dolphins.
but i do eat masskilled chicken.@ Koolmees, rotterdam.
mmmh!
- moth0
I don't mind them killing dolphins - I don't believe they're as endangered as some species, but that method of killing is hardly humane. It would even be easier to use a bolt gun.
Anyway. Never mind Japan. Probably all better off seeing how the animals where you live are treated. Especially the ones you eat.
- stewart0
"It would even be easier to use a bolt gun."
i think the bleeding results in better quality meat or something.
but you're right, it's a waste. why not make bloodsausages of all that?
- Concrete0
My Grandfather lived in Japan for nearly 30 years. Whilst there he observed that cultures in the far east place different importance on certain principles and morals which, in turn shape the sense of conscience of its people.
I am by no means justifying the acts of the men in that video, but they believe what they are doing is honourable.
Working hard and providing for their family. The fish of the sea are there to serve the community. Sentiment and regard for the dolphin doesn't come into it.
- kidswift-0
Don't get me wrong I love the Japanese as a race and culture but they have some fucked up ideas when it comes to the butchering of marine life. Other than Iceland now they have been the only nation to maintain whaling for "research purposes" which the meat after is blatantly sold at the fish markets after. Coming from NZ I have stood by and watched them plunder whales deminishing in numbers every year from our waters... and it makes me fucking sick. Now this like fuck dolphins need to be culled oh shit i must of missed the boat on how over popultaed out seas have become from flipper and his family. No wonder why they are all escaping up the Thames. Why the hell do we bother buying tinnd tuna thats dolphin friendly when the Japanese are culling them by the thousands they must of just started there "dolphin research programme"... guess i missed the boat on that one too!