Killing dolphins and killing people
The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary
04/24/07
I was going to write about the killing of dolphins in Japan. Porpoises and dolphins are aquatic mammals of the suborder Odontoceti. (There are also fish called dolphins, which are entirely different animals.) Mammalian dolphins belong to the family Delphinidae, and porpoises belong to the family Phocoenidae. Both are highly intelligent social mammals. They like human beings and seldom harm people who swim with them. I was going to deplore the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Fishermen in Japan are killing dolphins and small whales. These intelligent social beings hear the screaming of other dolphins as they get butchered in shallow coves. One wonders how the Japanese people could be so cruel as to allow this atrocity. It is done with the approval of the Japanese government. … That’s what I was going to write about, and then came the massacre at Virginia Tech...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002730.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dolphins
by Fred E. Foldvary
04/24/07
I was going to write about the killing of dolphins in Japan. Porpoises and dolphins are aquatic mammals of the suborder Odontoceti. (There are also fish called dolphins, which are entirely different animals.) Mammalian dolphins belong to the family Delphinidae, and porpoises belong to the family Phocoenidae. Both are highly intelligent social mammals. They like human beings and seldom harm people who swim with them. I was going to deplore the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Fishermen in Japan are killing dolphins and small whales. These intelligent social beings hear the screaming of other dolphins as they get butchered in shallow coves. One wonders how the Japanese people could be so cruel as to allow this atrocity. It is done with the approval of the Japanese government. … That’s what I was going to write about, and then came the massacre at Virginia Tech...
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002730.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=dolphins
rudkla - 25. Apr, 15:11
