Posted on 02/24/2010 4:18:50 PM PST by JoeProBono
So some have to be exploited for the benefit of others?
I don’t have a problem with zoos, partly because as I understand it animals in zoos live much longer.
I assume they therefore must be much better off, health-wise.
I can’t project upon them that they wish they were on the African Savannah or what not. I don’t think they have that kind of consciousness.
Okay, she hated it.
What a maroon!
“So some have to be exploited for the benefit of others?”
So many have to die because some can’t work for a living?
Yep. Just like Timothy Treadwell.
No, she loved it right up to the point where the KILLER whale killed/ate her.
We know for a fact that walruses and leopard seals, which inhabit the most remote polar environments, are known to attack and kill humans. Rogue male walruses will overturn small boats and kill everyone in them. And there are multiple documented cases of leopard seals hunting and eating humans in the wild.
We know nothing of the kind about killer whales. They live all over the world, so if they ever went after humans, we would know about it. They simply do not attack humans in the wild.
You made me LOL.
“You made me LOL.
About?
I knew bear attacks on humans would go up after that plane load of A-1 sauce went missing in the Cascades.
We make bad meals. Too many bones, too little fat.
Now that actually makes sense!
Well, it's an aberration when they do. There are eyewitness accounts, I've been told by one pretty well-educated fisherman who has read quite a lot about Arctic exploration, of Orcas trying to snack on explorers in the 1800s by crashing on ice flows and causing them to fall into the water, and also in his decades of fishing on the open sea out several hundred miles from land, there were mysterious things that raised some suspicion, but again, the Orcas are very, very smart and even sneaky. And a life-long, 3rd generation commercial diver and a friend who knew very well the normal habits of Orcas, saw a couple acting (and I quote) "guilty" one day, as in swimming hell-bent-for-leather away from the boat when any normal Orcas would have swung by for a visit, and he and his buddy were really puzzled by the behavior. He learned the next day that a couple of kayakers in that area had disappeared the same day he'd seen the Orcas. The kayaks were found all in one piece, one right-side-up, the other overturned, not a scratch on them.
According to my diver friend, the offical Fish n Game (or maybe Coast Guard) explanation was that Great Whites, very common in the area, must have gotten them, but my diver friend just laughed at that. Something very adroitly tipped both of those people out of their kayaks (they wouldn't have been swimming because the water was too cold, you don't get in and out of a kayak very easily in the water, and you stand too much of a chance losing the kayak to drift if you're not IN it). Sharks would have bitten the boats and certainly wouldn't have been smart enough or deft enough to knock people out of two of them; one would have been dumb luck. But Orcas? It'd be right up their alley, especially two rogue "bad boys" outcast from the pod.
This diver worked for four decades at least in proximity with Great White and Orcas; he only once ever felt threatened enough by a shark to get out of the water (hammerheads are worse), and never even bothered to fear Orcas because attacks on humans were so rare as to be not worth fearing, and he went on diving after the incident with the same attitude. But the truth is that in the wild, Orcas can and do eat anything they want.
And you know, rmlew, I think you're right that people would have too little fat and too big and heavy of bones for good munching ... but how would the Orcas know that without a little sampler first? Or more likely, would they care if they were just out for a little mischief?
We obviously differ in our opinion about having 6 ton mammals doing tricks for the kiddies.
So are 6 lb mammels ok or do you only have trouble with the big ones.
In this case, we’re talking about orcas.
Why has no one mentioned the obvious solution to this problem. TANK SIDE HARPOONS. Just sayin.
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