Hayden Panettiere Tries to Save the Dolphins

[brokenenglish]

I never had any idea anyone ate dolphin.

 

[bliss_]

We should all take the time to educate ourselves in other cultures before just popping in to do whatever one feels like..... But I know, those Dolphins are sure cute! Nothing lives forever! Eventually the Dolphins will die, just like so many other species...and those other species weren't even touched by humans.

this is disgusting.

 

[Ce'nedra]

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21689083/

See, dolphins are nice and friendly, and we screw them over. Remember, there is no such thing as dolphin friendly tuna.

Keep in mind that my intention is NOT to support dolphins being cruelly slaughtered, but a point I'd like to make is that not ALL dolphins are friendly. Yes they are extremely intelligent but the whole stereotype of them being friendly animals that would never harm is false. While I'm sure there are friendly ones, they too, are wild animals, and cases of them killing humans, r*ping, murdering each other had been documented although, strangely, not talked about much.

 

[Deleted member 49693]

Out of curiosity - how do dolphins r*pe each other?

 

[misssakura]

Through the blowhole.

 

[Zen]

this is disgusting.

You know what...sorry that you feel like that and that you don't understand where I'm coming from.....you know, I feel bad that you took my comment off context as well as so many others do in this thread.

 

[Deleted member 49693]

Through the blowhole.

Which blowhole? The one on the head? I don't know...

 

[misssakura]

Dolphins have more than one blowhole? XD

 

[SiennaInLondon]

The green peace people do the same to the native american tribes who hunt whales up in the arctic and near alaska. A traditional way of life and a food that is able to sustain them, as well as provide the necessary nourishment for the harsh climate they live in. Yet green peace like to go in, ignore their traditions, ways of life, culture and natural way of obtaining food and make a spectacle.

That's awful! Greenpeace really don't help their image much. I am sure there is so much dogmaticism in their ranks (and on this thread) about their beliefs that they forget that they are essentially being culturist/racist. And in this thread people are being the same way about the Japanese. Why not oppose large scale food industries than people who are (LEGALLY) hunting dolphins. Surely it is not about the species, it is about the manner and the sustainability.

And what is this nonsense about one species being more intelligent than another?! Does that a) Give us the right to treat unintelligent life as we please and b) what about in nature? Are we going to condemn killer whales for killing dolphins?

But yes, I feel fairly bleak about the damange we have done just like jun3machina.

 

[Jodilicous]

I think it is great she trys to help. but omg poor dolphins

 

[smartarse]

are dolphins endangered species?

... the blowhole comment had me dying on the floor

 

[Jodilicous]

yeah they are i think

 

[ptowngal]

I got this from a website:

"Though some deliberate hunting of dolphins exists, the greatest direct threat to dolphins is accidental drowning in gill nets. Of equal importance are the indirect threats to their food supply, including overfishing, deforesting of the river-edge, agricultural polluting, paper milling and mining, and hydroelectric dam building. Hydroelectric dams reduce the number of fish species and isolate populations of dolphins." http://swbg-adventurecamps.com/infobooks/Endangered/esVI.html

Although they are talking about Amazon dolphins specifically, I'm guessing the same thing applies to dolphins in general. To help out the dolphins, people should really focus on the other aspects of why they are endangered.

 

[jun3machina]

I got this from a website:

"Though some deliberate hunting of dolphins exists, the greatest direct threat to dolphins is accidental drowning in gill nets. Of equal importance are the indirect threats to their food supply, including overfishing, deforesting of the river-edge, agricultural polluting, paper milling and mining, and hydroelectric dam building. Hydroelectric dams reduce the number of fish species and isolate populations of dolphins." http://swbg-adventurecamps.com/infobooks/Endangered/esVI.html

Although they are talking about Amazon dolphins specifically, I'm guessing the same thing applies to dolphins in general. To help out the dolphins, people should really focus on the other aspects of why they are endangered.

very well said! many people dont realize the effects we have on species is not always from one 'big bad' thing we do, but a combination of them...karma

 

[SiennaInLondon]

I think most of the big sea dolphins aren't endangered. And I am fairly certain that whatever they are hunting in Japan in the clip, isn't endangered.

 

[bliss_]

You know what...sorry that you feel like that and that you don't understand where I'm coming from.....you know, I feel bad that you took my comment off context as well as so many others do in this thread.

I'm not sure how your comment can be taken out of context?

"nothing lives forever" is NOT a valid excuse for human beings murder other living things.

 

[ptowngal]

^I don't think Zen meant to say that it's ok to kill animals because they'll die eventually in her original post. I think all this misunderstanding might have just been from the structure of her post in the way that she ordered her points. If she says she didn't mean it in that way, we should believe her. An online forum isn't the best place to have this discussion- people can interpret posts in ways the authors didn't intend. Let's not fight about this anymore.

 

[Deleted member 49693]

^ Agreed.

 

[duver]

Honestly, if you are going to ban killing dolphins you should ban killing. Just because something is "cute" doesn't make it more worthy of life. Dolphins are actually ruthless creatures who r*pe and beat up other animals in the sea for no other reason than to be tough. They are like the gangs of sea. Yes, they are smart, they know how to "play nice" to get food from humans.

 

[ptowngal]

Dolphins are actually ruthless creatures who r*pe and beat up other animals in the sea for no other reason than to be tough. They are like the gangs of sea.

I'm not so sure about that. I'm sure there are aggressive pods, but dolphins don't scope out other sea creatures just to attack them. Most of their aggressiveness comes in the form of self-defense. The aggressive pods might just have been targeted by many predators and are therefore more aggressive and have different behavioral psychology. Most dolphins are generally friendly and helpful too.