My mom bought me a whale mug. “Because you hate whales!” she said.
Tag: cetaphobia
You need to send those whales to jail.
TRUE
yes they are majestic but am I really the only one who is absolutely terrified?????
Blackfish – Trailer
Beyond the lies, beneath the deception, the truth will surface.
Magnolia Pictures has debuted the trailer for the chilling Sundance documentary Blackfish, directed Gabriela Cowperthwaite, about orcas in captivity.
Holy shit.
OKAY, WE NEED TO REBLOG THE FUCK OUT OF THIS. EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT AN ANIMAL PERSON, YOUR FOLLOWERS NEED TO SEE THIS. ESPECIALLY DURING THE HEIGHT OF VACATION SEASON. DO NOT SUPPORT SEA PARKS WITH CAPTIVE WHALES. IT’S NOT ENVIRONMENTAL PROPAGANDA (I can’t believe I even used those words) IT’S A REAL ISSUE AND IT’S NOT A MATTER OF PROOF, IT’S A MATTER OF COVERING IT UP AND IGNORING IT!
tw warning for animal abuse and implications of graphic violence (human mutilation, etc)
while we’re at it, the cove is a pretty good documentary about this sort of thing as well
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
MORE SCREAMING
okay so
Whales aren’t evil. They’re not. They really are not. But they are large, intelligent animals. They are very, very, very intelligent. They do not belong in cages and trained for human amusement. They are way too smart for that. And they are big. Like. Really big. And. Uhm.
Okay
you wanna know why I am afraid of whales (I will eventually do a comic about this)
it is because they are another species that is probably just as intelligent as we are, if not more so, and they are gigantic and we are pretty insignificant and we have been killing them and bothering them for a very long time and if they wanted to hurt us they totally could and it would be very, very hard to stop them
Fortunately, despite being the largest carnivores ever, they seem to be pretty chill (probably because they are so intelligent and probably possess a lot of empathy)
but
uh
Maybe it’s not so much fear as it is respect. Terrified with respect. Wanting to stay very far out of their way.
SPERM WHALES DIVE INTO THE MARIANA TRENCH TO FIGHT AND EAT GIANT SQUIDS OKAY LIKE
BATTLE SCARS
HYPER INTELLIGENT HUNTERS WITH MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF POWER AND TERRITORY
I just
wha
hyperventilating now kthnx
because people want to capture these critters and torture them and make them perform in front of a live audience and don’t think oh hey maybe this isn’t okay because these whales are like people-smart and deserve rights too and maybe this is gonna mess them up
captured war slaves
did you guys know that whales started attacking whaling ships when that kinda stuff was going on? like, the only time they were violent.. fighting back.. because.. they totally could… and had a right to
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
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so terrifying!!!! ;-;
I kept reblogging scary whale pictures on my other tumblr, so here’s my apology.
MY GOSH I WOULD DIE I have this weird fear of anything bigger than about one foot long that lives in the water.
what am I doing looking at whales at midnight when I should be in bed not shivering in terror at my computer in the dark omg
