How to move a beluga across the world
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Re: How to move a beluga across the world
#2I wonder if they can feel the air pressure change while submerged.
Re: How to move a beluga across the world
#3No cetacean should live in captivity, period.
This transport "issue" just shows why we have no business transporting them in the first place.
For reference, the CNN documentary Blackfish is a good place to start.
Re: How to move a beluga across the world
#4Right at the end of the article:
> Why not release the belugas into the ocean?
> It's geopolitically difficult to return many belugas to their native waters, because many come from Russia, Lott said.
> Sending the Marineland belugas into the wild would have been "inhumane," Trites said. At least half of the animals were born into captivity, so they don't know how to hunt and wouldn't be accepted by the local beluga population.
> "The animals are so social that they can't survive on their own," he said.
Re: How to move a beluga across the world
#5Writing an entire article about whale transportation, without even a subtle nod to Star Trek IV, or even a reference to tank material and the process of its invention, is borderline criminal. What is this, the dark ages?
Re: How to move a beluga across the world
#6Writing an entire article about whale transportation, without even a subtle nod to Star Trek IV, or even a reference to tank material and the process of its invention, is borderline criminal. What is this, the dark ages?
They should have also talked to M.A.S.A, the Mexicano Aeronáutica y Spacio Administración, they will deliver sub-orbital whales for 200$ in 2005 dollars.
long live the zygons!