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...efforts to avoid commission of by accused "Craigslist killer," for whom, according to his lawyer, "the transition from being free to being incarcerated is very difficult...
Your documentary gives the impression that killer whales are cuddly, social creatures. Have they gotten a bad rap over the years? People seem to equate them with great white sharks. (See pictures of a closer look at sharks...
Well, fortunately, I don't think that misconception has led people to do the same thing with killer whales that they do with sharks. They don't go out just to kill them. There are a lot of people who kill sharks for this huge shark fin industry. There's between a hundred million and two hundred million sharks that have been slaughtered for their fins while the carcasses of the bleeding sharks are dumped overboard. We're really very poor managers of our environment. (See the top animal stories of the past year...
...think that having the word killer in its name predisposes people to see them as frightening? As you show in your documentary, they are quite like humans...
...dominant species on the ocean, just like we are the dominant species on land. They also occupy the entire ocean - 71 percent of the planet, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, which is unusual for a marine mammal. It's a very sophisticated species. But they are called killer whales because they do kill whales...