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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
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>ST>I am curious about how people think about the issue
>ST>of whale hunting. There is obviously a lot of emotion.
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>Lots of emotion involved here....
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>ST>  Do anyone believe that whales have a greater right
>ST>  to live than other hunted animals (reindeer etc.)?
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>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....


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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JE
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