Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
#Dolphins are free ranging, social, sonic, and highly intelligent #MarineMammals. The vastness and #BiologicalDiversity of the open #sea, in which dolphins and other #whales have developed over more than 50 million years, cannot be duplicated in a tank or an enclosure in the sea. Consequently, the complexity of dolphins’ behavioral repertoire cannot be accommodated in #captivity. Based on today’s knowledge of cetaceans’ sophisticated physiology and highly developed emotional sense,
With all of the hot air these days, I am reminded of this prescient quote by Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces."
On a beautiful sunny day, ladybugs live intensely the last days of spring.
The lady beetle (Hippodamia variegata) are distributed throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia, but are absent from the Far North. They live in fields, meadows, at the edges of forests and along the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. #photonature#macros#macrophotography#insect#biologicaldiversity
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