Brent found this feel-good article today and I had to post it. Fish are friends, not food.
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jumpercarr
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March 13, 2008 at 5:07 am
I saw this article and thought it was awesome. Dolphins are very intelligent creatures. A number of years ago, Kathleen and I did a kayak/camping trip on an island in the Sea of Cortes just off the coast of La Paz Mexico. We saw hundreds of dolphins in the giant pods. It was pretty cool as they chased our little boat around. We also got to swim with sea lions. The babies were cool. They would chase you around and nip at your flippers etc… You could even touch them and they swam around you. The adults sea lions on the other hand did not think we were so cool. A full grown male sea lion in the water is extremely intimidating. Not a creature to be messed with.
Dolphins are also serious hunters. Biologists liken them to wolves in the way that they hunt and interact with each other. They are most definitely not docile little creatures. Which actually makes me like then even more.
Killer whales, which are not really whales at all but a relative of the dolphin are very cool too.
ALl that being said, fish are food. Dolphins and whales are not fish. They are mammals.
Mmmmmmm……sushi (said in a Homer Simpson-esque voice).
March 17, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Ah, you’re killin’ me…
March 18, 2008 at 11:12 am
In what way?
March 18, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Fish … food … sushi … it’s just not right. Mmmmmmmmm…… tofu (said in a Lisa Simpson-esque voice).
Did I ever tell you my pelican story? When I was in high school, a couple of my friends and I went to the Wharf (Monterey, that is), and they used to have stands where you could buy a little paper dish of sardines to feed the seals/sea lions/otters below for, like, 5 bucks. So, here I am, tossing one sardine after another to the seals below and watching them fight over them (kinda sick, now that I think about it), when I felt a coat being slipped over my head and saw complete darkness. Then I felt the fish dish slip out of my hands, like someone grabbed it, not like it fell. Just as I started struggling to push my friends away who were obviously playing a practical joke on me, the darkness lifted and I saw a pelican flying away with my fish dish. The damned thing mugged me from behind when I was wasn’t looking, slipping its huge wing over my head to disorient me. Fish Jacked by a Pro.
I’ve never seen a wild dolphin, but I hope to go some place where I can some day. The Japanese think that anything that swims is fair-game – and, yes, some of them still eat dolphins and whales. I think it’s disgusting any way I look at it, but it is especially disturbing when you read stories like this one where they so clearly have an intelligence that goes well beyond the 5-second memory span of the common goldfish. Eating a dolphin is like eating space alien from another planet bearing gifts. It’s just wrong.
March 20, 2008 at 4:58 am
I agree. I would not eat dolpins or whales. I find it offensive. Mostly because I respect them as predators. They are just out their trying to make a living…..
March 20, 2008 at 4:58 am
Nice typo Tom.