“How sharper than a sermon’s truth it must have been for many human beings when they learned that bottle-nosed Dolphins may, in time, succeed battle-poised Man as the master species on earth. This prophecy is implicit in the findings of those scientists who have been studying, and interviewing, dolphins in laboratories. It neither alarms nor surprises me that Nature, whose patience with our self-destructive species is giving out, may have decided to make us, if not extinct, at least a secondary power among the mammals of this improbable planet.. As far back as 1933 I observed a school of dolphins (their schools increase as ours decline) romping, as we carelessly call it, alongside a cruise ship in the South Atlantic, and something told me that here was a creature, all gaiety, charm, and intelligence, that might one day come out of the boundless deep and show us how a world can be run by creatures dedicated not to the destruction of their species but to its preservation.” – James Thurber, 1961
I am so upset right now I don’t even know if I should be posting this. But I came across a video today that is extremely upsetting. It is footage of a dolphin slaughter in Japan. It is highly graphic, and saddening to no end. My only hope by sharing it with as many thousands of people that visit this blog is that it will enrage you as well and send a clear message.
Again, this is VERY upsetting footage, but please share it with as many people as you know.
And one of the organizations I have supported for years that actively fights this kind of madness..Sea Shepherd
p.s. (This has actually been going on for many, many years now – but I only recently came across this disturbing video)
With a fixed focus camera like most of those little 110’s were – I must have had pretty shaky hands. But check out that classic ‘S’ curve in the composition – ha! I supopse some Photoshop work could be done on it to clean it up, restore some color, maybe even get some sharpness in it – but for many reasons – I think that would ruin it’s character.
