Blogger has a problem with plagiarism. They don't like it. No one does, of course, but they work extra hard to make sure that it doesn't happen. So Blogger won't allow me to copy and paste something that I got from a website onto my blog. I was going to put the "Questions and Answers" section of http://www.savejapandolphins.com/ onto my blog, but I can't (Don't worry, I'm not plagiarizing. I was planning on putting links, websites, and my source on the same post). So here's a link if you have any questions: http://savejapandolphins.org/faq.php.
If you have any more questions about this issue or about anything relating to it, feel free to ask me in a comment. Or, you can contact Helen O'barry at helenobarry@yahoo.com with your questions (A lot of people have been sending her questions, so please understand if she can't get to yours).
So, I just watched The Cove for the first time. Well, not for the first time. I watched parts of it with Andie, but I've never seen the whole thing. Not until today. I can't get over how powerful it is. They get their point across by going from one extreme to another. For example, they showed a bunch of dolphins in the ocean. They're happy, they're together, they're jumping in the air with the sunset behind them. They're wild. They're free. Just like they should be. And then they show a lonely dolphin in an aquarium. It's too small for it. It's alone and depressed, it's trainer starves it so that it performs properly. It's trapped in captivity. It doesn't belong there. See? From one extreme to another. It really shook me. Dolphins swim 100 miles per day. 100 MILES. How can they do that in an aquarium?
Dolphins get really stressed out in aquariums. So stressed that they die. Dolphins are smart. They're smart enough to commit suicide when they get stressed out in captivity (breathing isn't an instinct to dolphins. They have to remember to breath. They can commit suicide by not breathing anymore. Humans can't do this because they'll pass out and automatically start breathing again. But dolphins won't automatically start breathing like humans would). They're even smart enough to know what's going on in the cove. They know that their parents are being slaughtered. I don't know how they know it, but they know.
You wanna know a sound that you'll never forget when you hear it? A screaming dolphin. Yep, they scream. When they're being slaughtered. They thrash around in their own blood and they scream. It doesn't sounds like screaming, it sounds like an extremely high-pitched squeal. But it's horrible. And I'll never forget that sound. Never.
If you have any more questions about this issue or about anything relating to it, feel free to ask me in a comment. Or, you can contact Helen O'barry at helenobarry@yahoo.com with your questions (A lot of people have been sending her questions, so please understand if she can't get to yours).
So, I just watched The Cove for the first time. Well, not for the first time. I watched parts of it with Andie, but I've never seen the whole thing. Not until today. I can't get over how powerful it is. They get their point across by going from one extreme to another. For example, they showed a bunch of dolphins in the ocean. They're happy, they're together, they're jumping in the air with the sunset behind them. They're wild. They're free. Just like they should be. And then they show a lonely dolphin in an aquarium. It's too small for it. It's alone and depressed, it's trainer starves it so that it performs properly. It's trapped in captivity. It doesn't belong there. See? From one extreme to another. It really shook me. Dolphins swim 100 miles per day. 100 MILES. How can they do that in an aquarium?
Dolphins get really stressed out in aquariums. So stressed that they die. Dolphins are smart. They're smart enough to commit suicide when they get stressed out in captivity (breathing isn't an instinct to dolphins. They have to remember to breath. They can commit suicide by not breathing anymore. Humans can't do this because they'll pass out and automatically start breathing again. But dolphins won't automatically start breathing like humans would). They're even smart enough to know what's going on in the cove. They know that their parents are being slaughtered. I don't know how they know it, but they know.
You wanna know a sound that you'll never forget when you hear it? A screaming dolphin. Yep, they scream. When they're being slaughtered. They thrash around in their own blood and they scream. It doesn't sounds like screaming, it sounds like an extremely high-pitched squeal. But it's horrible. And I'll never forget that sound. Never.
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