As much as I enjoyed teasing Ms. X about her "tree hugging" and as much as I relished the idea of making a few of these shirts,
It's been shown over and over that they do possess intelligence that, as of now, we still don't understand.
I don't like it when folks anthropomorphise animals but it does seem that they are capable of showing a full range of emotions and their ability and willingness to communicate them to us seems fairly remarkable.
A new documentary addresses the issues of what happens when you take an animal with such capabilities and cage it.
Killer whales live in pods, or small family groups.
They travel thousands of miles from one feeding ground to another or to their birthing areas.
To take a member of the herd, pluck it out of the water, away from it's family group and then put it in, what to a whale would be the equivalent of a closet, and made to perform daily for treats, seems fairly radically cruel to me.
If you've been reading the blog for long, you'll know that I'm not exactly Mr. Sensitivity on these issues.
Animals have their place and sometimes their place is a spot on the food chain.
But, there is something about whales that gets to me and the decision to allow them to be captured and put on display seems like it might be worth another look.
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