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Noble Cetaceans getting screwed at every turn
4:59PM ON
05/03/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
For readers new to the Dose, let’s get one thing straight: dolphins, those rubbery, sonar-using marine mammals who are probably smarter than us, totally kick ass.
It is, therefore, a tragic day: a dolphin at Sea World in Orlando is dead after colliding with another dolphin in mid-air during a performance in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Officials said the dolphin, called Sharky, hit the other dolphin during a Sunday show at Discovery Cove. The incident was apparently a freak accident.
Sharky was a 30-year-old female dolphin that had performed the trick dozens of times, officials said.
The dolphin will be used for research at the park, Local 6 reported.
Meanwhile, it appears that mean-spirited old buzzard Dick Cheney is blocking the implementation of a federal rule that would set a lower speed limit for large ships, reducing the amount of fatal ship-on-whale collisions. Good thing Whale-defender Henry Waxman is fighting back.
The bottom line: it ain’t easy being marine.
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One Comment on “ Noble Cetaceans getting screwed at every turn ”
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:16PM
Bill M. Says:
Haven’t we learned anything from Star Trek IV?
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