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And, just for the nerd department, lord of the ring's orcs and orca whales share probably the same meaning.

Pygmy sperm whales are not aggresive for humans even when injured or stranded, and I'm really happy with it.

Even if dolphins or whales were as intelligent as people want to believe, they are unlikely to ever develop space travel or even radio communication.

Merely computing faster or more complicated models is like assuming yeast are diseased and whales are disease free merely because of size and complication differential.

Well, killer whales are Dolphinidae so technically they are big dolphins.

Is it possible the whales realized that by returning the pup to shore when they weren't hungry, they were ensuring a larger crop next year?

Perhaps the better question is should we treat the whales better or differently based on what we learned rather than shoe-horn them into a word that literally means human.

There was one seal they decided not to eat so one of the killer whales beached himself again in order to release it safely on land.

The first was 'human error', the second could be said to have been caused by 'human error' also insofar as, well, Fukushima wasn't built by whales.

I have mixed feelings about traffic shaping between users and protocols – that is limiting a minority of whales taking an unfair share.

But now you're saying butterfly wings contain whales?

Captive pygmy killer whales are really nasty also.

The reality is though that whales drive gaming, and microtransactions facilitate whales spending massively more on games than the "buy it once" model.

I think a better title would be "Should we grant human rights to killer whales?" Still interesting, still thought provoking, but without the obvious absurdity.

Well, it's clear from reading the article that Lori Marino thinks that actually using the word "person" -- in acknowledging that it might not be the right word -- is secondary to granting killer whales and other animals some of the rights and privileges associated with personhood on the basis of their capacity for emotion, intelligence and empathy.

The question "Are killer whales persons" is in fact the central issue that it examines, and the use of "persons" instead of "people" ought to make it clear that they're using "person" in the legal sense.

The trip I have in mind is a 36-day organized sea cruise on a Russian icebreaker to the Ross Ice Shelf and Bay of Whales, with stops along the way at Australian and American bases (including McMurdo sound) and numerous subantarctic islands.