Marine Mammal Rights Are Needed Too, Scientists Claim

By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer:VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Orcas mourn their dead, fair whales have accents and dolphins like to have fun (and they “talk” in their sleep). Since of their special intelligence and culture, marine mammals should have their own locate of rights, researchers attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting here said.”Since of their cultural sophistication these are enormously vulnerable individuals,” said Lori Marino, who studies brain and behavioral evolution in mammals at Emory University in Atlanta. “We have all the evidence to exhibit that there is an egregious mismatch between how cetaceans are and how they are perceived and still treated by our species.”Glance at More…
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