Dolphins rock.
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bruce said...
A first impression is that the dolphin and dog are touching. Don't think so. Looks more like it was shot with a telephoto and the dolphin is in front of the dog. Hard to estimate the actual distance that they were apart.
eolake said...
That's a good point, actually. Telephoto photographs can really trick us that way.
Dolphins love to go a big rubbery one.
ReplyDeleteYup, they rock allright. And they always thank us for all the fish.
Dolphins make me go a big rubbery one!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever eaten dolphin? A friend of mine has and she says they are are delicious. Only dolphins that died are ever eaten by her. She doesn't hunt them nor harm them, please understand this.
ReplyDeleteShe's a marine biologist also.
Have you ever eaten human? I don't eat the ones that have just died, only those that I have hunted for sport. More zing. "Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone." - Tiger aphorism.
ReplyDeleteAs to the photo, a first impression is that the dolphin and dog are touching. Don't think so. Looks more like it was shot with a telephoto and the dolphin is in front of the dog. Hard to estimate the actual distance that they were apart.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, actually. Telephoto photographs can really trick us that way.
ReplyDeleteAw, Joe Dick, you beat me to it! :-)
ReplyDeleteThe dolphin and dog could ALSO be actually touching. Nothing's impossible either way.
Looks like Anon is a healthy male dolphin. "Elementary, my dear Watson and Crick!"
Aw, Joe Dick, you beat me to it! :-)
ReplyDeleteSorry, P, but you've got to get up pretty early in the morning to beat this big of a dick. Er..wait a minute...
Okay, great minds think alike then! ;-)
Have you ever eaten human? I don't eat the ones that have just died, only those that I have hunted for sport.
ReplyDeleteWhy attempt humour when I'm serious Joe Dick? Answer the question if you wish to discuss it? Thank you.
The idea of eating something that just died is a little worrying. Being a marine biologist she probably could tell a healthy one though.
ReplyDeleteIs there a maritime equivalent of roadkill? I still wouldn't eat a roadkill skunk, I'd be worried about rabies. I guess dolphins that get caught accidentally by trawlers would fall into this category.
Never eaten dolphin the mammal, but I've tried mahi-mahi and it was okay.
Why attempt humour when I'm serious Joe Dick? Answer the question if you wish to discuss it? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI was completely serious. I like to hunt the most dangerous animal of all. MAN.
20,000 dolphins get killed each year in Taiji, Japan just because it is traditional. If people keep hunting dolphins there will be no more around Taiji, Japan. This is bad because if there are no more dolphins the food chain will get messed up. One of the dolphin-hunter says "Hunting dolphins is one step up from being a ordinary fishermen. It's something people look up to."(news.bbc.co.uk) I think that people should start thinking about the environment because if they don't they will make a huge impact to it. As Clare Perry From the Environmental Investigation Agency says "The striped dolphin has been practically been wiped out from the area north of here because it was hunted in such high numbers."(news.bcc.co.uk) Clare also warns " There's a chance that could happen around here with other dolphins."(news.bcc.co.uk) As I said before, if people keep hunting dolphins the food chain will get messed up and, messing up the food chain is bad for our environment. You can save our environment and 20,000 dolphins from being killed each year by helping support the humanitarians help save the dolphins.
ReplyDeleteAmy, I would have moral issues with eating the flesh of a highly intelligent creature, even a non-human one. That includes all primates, and probably all cetaceans.
ReplyDelete"...man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons." -- (Douglas Adams)
Admittedly, technically anthropophagy is just a social taboo. Or, as I would put it, a matter of respect. I happen to also respect dolphins very much.
Even if you swore to me they taste delicious. According to cannibals, Asian humans are the tastiest, followed by the White, and Black people really don't taste very good. Well, no offense, but I'm not about to check! I'll take their word for it as a bit of cultural trivia, period.
Albaeliza, thank you for supporting my beliefs in your own manner. Respect is my true religion.
Unbalancing the food chain and the delicate equilibrium of our environment is a more selfish, but also far more powerful reason. The planet can live without us, but we NEED the planet. Today, we are literally murdering our nurturing mother, and that's suicide. If we become extinct "Mom" will probably manage to survive and recover. Not us.
"Hunting dolphins is one step up from being ordinary fishermen."
Well, hunting humans is one very SMALLER step up from hunting dolphins, who are mammals with a highly developed brain and an elaborate abstract language, very remote from fish. (More remote, in spite of superficial shape resemblances, than us from monkeys!) I can perfectly understand Joe Dick's sarcasm. If indeed it is sarcasm. (No, Joe, please don't answer that!!!)
There are a lot of animals out there which are far more intelligent than most people give them credit for. Ravens, for example. Take this from the April 2007 issue of Scientific American:
ReplyDelete"Ravens are not the only birds generally reputed to be smart. In the past two decades a virtual avalanche of studies have revealed that certain of the corvid relatives (which include the smaller crows, as well as jays, magpies and nutcrackers) possess surprising and sophisticated mental capacities. In some species, these abilities appear to be on par with, or exceed, those of the great apes."
Yes, I had heard about that. "Bird brain" might be a very clumsy insult after all.
ReplyDeleteBut can birds go a big rubbery one, like us and dolphins? I think not!
So ours is bigger than theirs. Which, in strict macho logical reasoning, means we are smarter than the birds, quod erat demonstrandum.
And, of course, smarter than any woman, for the same reason. Oogah-oogah! :o)
Hey, no need for applause, I spent 18 and a half years studying the Macho language in their own land, now I speak it fluently. For instance, listen to this impeccable diction: "Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. Jane want to taste Tarzan's banana? Very ripe today, arf, arf! (Burrrrp!)"
Plus, unlike dolphins, the Machoes aren't remotely close to becoming an endangered species. So theirs is a very practical dialect to learn. Besides, I have great trouble pronouncing Dolphinese. My voice isn't high-pitched enough. Grook? Umph!
But can birds go a big rubbery one, like us and dolphins? I think not!
ReplyDeleteIf not, what good are they?! In fact, the idea makes me go a big rubbery one.
The idea makes me want to go and shoot a big rubber duck!
ReplyDeleteWhere's my harpoon?
The idea of you wanting to go shoot a big rubber duck makes me go a big rubbery one!
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