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What led the killer whale Tilikum to attack and kill one of his SeaWorld trainers in Orlando, Fla., will not be known until behavioral records from the days and weeks preceding the incident are examined. But one thing is clear: the attack was violent and bloody, perpetrated with viciousness by a member of one of the smartest of ocean species...
...Steve Irwin was later joined by two more vessels from the Sea Shepherd's fleet: The high-tech stealth boat Ady Gil, which sunk in the Southern Sea following a collision with whaling boat on Jan. 6., and the Bob Barker, a ship that survived a collision on Feb. 6 and is currently exchanging rancid-butter bombs with water canon fire from the whalers. On Feb. 15, New Zealander Pete Bethune, the former captain of the Ady Gil crew, boarded Japan's Shonan Maru 2 in the middle of the night, presented the skipper with a $3 million invoice...
...Australia has long been a strong opponent of whaling. During the conservative John Howard administration, the federal environmental minister lobbied for the International Whaling Committee (IWC) to ban whaling altogether in 2005. Two years later, a promise to put pressure on Japan to stop culling whales was part of Rudd's own election campaign platform, though last week's announcement was the first major step his administration has taken on the issue. "The Australian government promised to do something two years ago. They have been stalling on the issue," says Wally Franklin of the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre...
...implemented a worldwide moratorium on the killing of whales for commercial purposes. It was a move that helped several depleted whale species rebound, but few countries, including Japan, have continued to hunt whales using a loophole in the moratorium that permits whaling for research purposes. Today, Japan hunts hundreds of whales each year under its scientific program, the meat of which continues to be sold on the domestic market. "Most people have long come to the conclusion that no worthwhile research is coming out of this," says Franklin...
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