http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ1GAZZk6E&feature=related
P for perspective.
Never, NEVER let Orca's get ahold of lasers.
P for perspective.
Never, NEVER let Orca's get ahold of lasers.
proof please, before you go insulting Hindus, with references!I'm in the filthy hippie corner with this one. Regardless of how sustainable it is, they shouldn't be harvested simply out of respect for how fucking awesome they are. They are incredibly intelligent animals, having complex hierachies and are among the only "self-aware" animals in the world. This is proof that they really are magnificent creatures, unlike other creatures that are revered by some cultures.
Sink their boats!
You should read the "The Deep Range" by Arthur C Clarke. I reckon you'd enjoy it.As for the magnificent creature argument, fucking please. The Hindus have worshipped cows for thousands of years, and I'm pretty sure if they started violently demanding the end to us harvesting all things bovine most people here wouldn't be too impressed. Besides, it's a bit hypocritical when AUSTRALIA was in a large part to blame for the mass destruction of Southern Ocean whale populations, NOT the Japanese.
proof please, before you go insulting Hindus, with references!
"among the only" WTF does that mean? either its 'among the few' or its 'the only'
Sorry can't except that...at the very least its 'amongst the only self aware species'...I still feel that since you are bundling chimps, apes, dolphins and whales into the one group (I'd include several other species...but they are debatable) that you need something that implies the wide range of species...and then there is the whole issue of how self aware is defined.http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allnews/713EDD5FDA2E042B802571FB0057B0DF
I think "among the only" is grammatically correct. "Only" applies to a single entity, but that entity can be a group. Amongst that group you have a number of entities, that all share one or more things in common that lead to them being placed in a group together. In this case, it's self awareness in animals.
Cows are the most intelligent animal of them all. they've spent generations evolving themselves into tasty juicy prime porterhouse goodness. This ensures that -providing those pesky killjoys at the Heart Foundation don't get their chicken and lettuce eating way- Cows shall never go extinct. In fact if you look at the amount of Amazon rainforest that gets cleared to give them a bit of leg room, or the regular massages and beer fed to Kobe cattle, cows have it pretty damn easy compared to other species...however I have seen cattle exhibit those behaviors, which I'd not really consider a particularly inteligent animal.
Self awareness is usually defined by finding behaviours that exhibit an awareness that the creature itself is a living/existing entity. For dolphins, this is usually done with a mirror and a marker pen.and then there is the whole issue of how self aware is defined.
Yeah, well.., when I'm that drunk I don't really consider myself a self aware individual either!Baring your arse and throwing faecal matter at strangers could hardly be the attributes of a self-conscious individual.
what?ok i don't know if I'm high or just incredibly stupid but the kids at school call me terrorist so i think i could convince my Leader whose name i cannot say as ill get caught and get him to plan an attack on those whalers but i need my destructo license before i can do any of MUMBLE MUMBLE MUMBLE MUMBLE...
Arete, I believe that the Japanese target a particular sub species of Minke that is comparatively rare and somewhat endangered. This is what I heard from, of all people, my mum. She took a bunch of whale biologists down to Antarctica for a research programme.We have no idea what the pre whaling size of Minke, Finn and Humpback whale populations were, what the effective recruitment rate is, what the level of genetic structuring is, etc etc etc. in other words, no one knows how endangered they are, all we really know is we killed a lot of them and they stopped being abundant sudddenly, which is not good evidence for absolute and outright bans, or for a quota to be established. Like I said originally, we need the science to be done and an end put to the chest beating shitfight that is currently the status quo at the IWC.
I went to a conference a few years back where the head of NSW DPI fisheries was asked what he would do if it was found that a Minke/Finn harvest was sustainable. He said he'd investigate negotiating a fishing licence system with the Japanese fleet. Makes bloody good sense to me.
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Yer ay, killing tens of thousands will stop the killing ay.i remeber one of the jap dudes saying it's a part of i supose what thay just love doing maybe we should just drop a atomic bomb on em that will stop the killing ay