Sir Cancelot, the Social Justice Warrior: Whales and elephants, man. Real live aliens, and all we do is steal their bones and fat for ornamental purposes, like the Texas Chainsaw Family of the food chain

Whales and elephants, man. Real live aliens, and all we do is steal their bones and fat for ornamental purposes, like the Texas Chainsaw Family of the food chain

A movement of Indigenous groups in the Pacific is pushing to protect whales, inking a groundbreaking treaty to make them legal persons with inherent rights.

Pacific Indigenous leaders have a new plan to protect whales. Treat them as people | CNNwww.cnn.com For Māori conservationist Mere Takoko, “losing one whale is like losing an ancestor.” The animals “taught our people about navigation across the Pacific, particularly across the Milky Way… And this is...

My favorite theory is that orcas, elephants and humans are an example of "convergent evolution," multiple species jumping forward in the same way at the same time -- in this case, big-brained, long-gestating babies that take a long time to raise but are much more intelligent and social as a result

This is a great idea except for the bit about what the powerful have in mind for people generally over the coming decades.

Great apes.

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