Visiting Nelly

March 23, 2010

Not long ago, I took a colleague and his young daughter to meet Nelly, who is a very old acquaintance of mine. Nelly is 57, which would be unexceptional but for the fact that she is a bottlenose dolphin – the oldest one in captivity. She was born at Marineland, near St. Augustine, Fla., in 1953, and has spent her entire life greeting and performing for tourists there. I met …

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Put Eco-Vigilantes Out Of Business

January 7, 2010

Thanks purely to luck, nobody died yesterday when a Japanese whaling vessel collided in Antarctic waters with a speedboat manned by anti-whaling activists. Global governments should stop these confrontations before everybody’s luck runs out. The government-linked Institute of Cetacean Research conducts Japan’s annual whale hunt in the Antarctic summer, allegedly in the name of science. But conservationists and governments elsewhere view this as a fig leaf to cover a commercial …

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