Dr. Lori Marino, President of the Whale Sanctuary Project, and Charles Vinick, Executive Director, will talk about the four questions you need to ask before visiting any sanctuary. If the answer to any of them is Yes, then it’s not an authentic sanctuary.
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Soon after sperm whales started being hunted down mercilessly with harpoons, the success of the whalers dropped dramatically. What happened? The whales learned to foil the hunters. Better yet, they taught their neighboring populations how to do it, too.
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Why, in this day and age, is it still so hard for judges in courts of law to recognize even the most intelligent of nonhuman animals as having the fundamental legal right to bodily liberty and bodily integrity? We'll explore the inherent biases in how we humans view other animals.
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