Which means WE’RE in danger too! – Dolphins may need legal rights in order to stay alive! At this point, it’s almost a moral issue, which is even more urgent since new medical discoveries show how much we NEED these creatures. Also, it has now been discovered that killing whales is not only bad for the creatures being slaughtered, it’s ALSO bad for the atmosphere!
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Biologists say that dolphins are the world’s second most intelligent creatures (after human beings), and some dolphin advocates say that they should even be give legal rights as “non-human persons.” On this week’s Revelations, William Henry’s guest agrees with this. Is this one of the trends we will see in the future?
These people say that it is morally wrong to keep them in amusement parks or kill them (along with whales, who also seem to be conscious beings) for food. Almost 300,000 whales and dolphins die in this way every year. In the Times on Line website, Jonathan Leake quotes zoologist Lori Marino as saying, “Many dolphin brains are larger than our own and second in mass only to the human brain when corrected for body size.”
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Dolphins are dying from lots of different causes, and one of the strangest of these is soap.
Germ-killing antibacterial soaps, such as the kind often used to wash dishes, are being misused and can even lead to superbug infections in people. But they’re even worse for dolphins: As the suds flow into the oceans, the main substance in them, triclosan, is ingested by these mammals. Traces of it have been found in 25% of the dolphins tested in Florida, which is not surprising, since in the US, 76% of liquid soaps and 26% of bar soaps contain it.
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Recently, a dolphin rescued 2 beached whales. But who will save dolphins from being caught in fishing nets? Ironically, the same sonar that probably beached those whales may help save the dolphins. Two beached whales?a mother and her calf?were recently stranded on a New Zealand beach. Rescuers desperately tried to push them back into the ocean before they expired, but even when they were able to get the huge mammals into the water again, they kept floating back into the sand. But then a dolphin came to the rescue, probably after hearing the whales’ cries for help.
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