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- From: edstrom@hsc.ucalgary.ca (John Edstrom)
- Subject: Re: norway starts hunting min
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:41:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.4259.6389@dosgate> "andrew comello" <andrew.comello@canrem.com> writes:
- >Newsgroup: sci.bio
- >Subject: Norway starts hunting minke whales
- >
- >
- >ST>I am curious about how people think about the issue
- >ST>of whale hunting. There is obviously a lot of emotion.
- >
- >Lots of emotion involved here....
- >
- >ST> Do anyone believe that whales have a greater right
- >ST> to live than other hunted animals (reindeer etc.)?
- >
- >In my own opinion, I feel that if you placed all of the animals and
- >organisms of the earth on an IQ scale, the cetaceans would run a close
- >second to man... Since they have the greatest IQ besides man, It would
- >be MORALLY unjust to kill them....
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-
- Really? This sounds contentious. I would have nominated the
- chimpanzee as the runner up. I'm not an expert but my impression is
- that the chimp's intelligence has been underestimated and research
- keeps revealing unsuspected abilities and complexities.
-
- Besides their complex vocal behaviors and the relative ease of
- training some species to perform some arbitrary tasks what evidence is
- there that they have high IQs? I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm
- curious about their abilities. I've read Jane Goodall's books and
- know a little about chimps but haven't seen a comparable book about
- whales & dolphins.
-
- Secondly, if its wrong to kill whales, why isn't there a comparable
- outcry against killing chimps & gorillas?
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- >
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- JE
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