This National Geographic article is from Feb. But it talks about some examples/instances where animals show deep emotion for one another. If only humans could see through their eyes maybe the killing would end. The Dolphin Killers And then there is Taiji. The human fishers who are working there—forcibly corralling dolphins, holding them in pens for days in close quarters, tearing calves away from their mothers, and killing many—confound us because their actions are so utterly inhumane. And unnecessary. Very few Japanese dine on dolphin meat; no one needs it to survive. Killing wild dolphins may be a tradition there, as the countrys government insists, but traditions are not inviolable. They change when they no longer fit a societys needs or are recognized as immoral. That tradition was made only when the world, and Japanese Fishermen did not know what it meant to do harm to the Dolphins, Yoko Ono Lennon wrote in an open letter to the Taiji dolphin hunters and Shinzo Abe, Japans prime minister, on January 20. But the world, the fishers, and the Japanese government all know now what the killing at Taiji means. news.nationalgeographic/news/2014/02/140202-dolphins-taiji-japan-whales-marine-animal-altruism-science/
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:59:15 +0000
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