oops you beat me to it Celli lol x

Agreed

Unless there's a seismic shift in culture and attitudes - there will be no planet left.

Unfortunately I cannot open the link because I am at work and we are restricted from running videos, but I don't doubt that a dolphin is more than capable of "pleading for its life". Not obviously like a human would do, but in its own way. They are extremely intelligent creatures, some say as intelligent as us, and therefore would very likely have a sense of life and death as we would understand it.

My husband has visited Japan many times on business, and they are avid and common eaters of dolphin meat.

i don't think it's as simple as the dolphins being intelligent enough, or not, to avoid the nets. I think it far more likely to be the case that they cannot always see them. I have no idea how good their vision is, but from a personal point of view having done a lot of snorkelling and scuba diving, with a mask of course, I could quite imagine that without wearing a mask, it would be very difficult to see nets underwater. I think also the fisherman tend to flood areas with nets, and/or herd the dolphins, so it is very hard for them to escape.

Its and hour and a half long so I cant at this time, but I will. Thank you for posting it.

Im more interested really in the questions I asked you.

I dont for one moment believe a Dolphin can "plead for its life" if it had the thinking to do that it would have had the thinking to stay away from nets. They go for the nets for food, period. They are no doubt an intelligent animal, but to anthropomorphize it a bit silly. They just see an easy meal and take advantage of that. They are Dolphins, its what they do.

Youre welcome , i hope you do find time to watch the video though.

Its a very arrogant attitude of our species to assume that other creatures cant possibly think and feel, i think people forget that WE, like they, are animals too.

Some tuna boats actually look for dolphin pods hunting when fishing for tuna because dolphin are easy to spot, they surround the tuna & the dolpins with mile long nets, the nets are designed to go under the creatures & the boats then draw the top of the net up like a purse sting, trapping the animals.

the Taiji fishermen hunt dolphins en mass in fast boats and shoal the pods with nets into shallows trapping them in the Cove, they then slaughter them, sometimes dolpins who dont get caught up in the nets, will follow the boats because they wont leave their pod members.

This is really interesting....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17116882


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17116882

I dislike very much the arrogance of humans thinking that we are the only intelligent species on the planet, capable of feeling emotions, and I see absolutely no reason why a dolphin should not in its own way "plead for its life". We have all heard the stories of dolphins rescuing drowning children, helping fishermen, surfing bow waves of boats, there is absolutely no reason in my mind why a dolphin should not try to "ask" a human being not to hurt it.

Well said Gnasher x

Theres another recently made video here Dawn about what happens in Taiji .



Dawn to Death -The Dolphins of Taiji

From dawn to death, the story of the fate of dolphins passing by Japan. This is Taiji, dolphins are caught, driven to a cove and either killed or used for the slave trade in Dolphinariums



http://vimeo.com/52943939


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I can't even look at the opening post the title is enough for me
I have stood in the evening light near Cardigan bay watching the Dolphins swim past, they are one of my favourite species and for me preferable to many humans ...

Thanx darling