Almost no one in the US wants to EAT whale meat, but lots of us like to go out in a boat and try to spot these wonderful creatures. To see a huge eye rise up out of the water when a whale breaches and slaps its tail loudly on the ocean surface is one of the thrills of a lifetime.
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The Japanese have an insatiable appetite for whale meat, but environmentalists have a new weapon in their fight against whaling–in another nonmilitary use of the same drones we use as a weapon in Iraq.
Japanese whaling ships tried to block anti-whaling ships sent by conservationist agencies like Greenpeace to chase the whalers so the whale hunters could escape, but the activists repeatedly launched a drone to track them.
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Before we turn them all into whale meat, we need to understand why both human and whale societies need grannies.
Why do female primates (like humans) and whales go through menopause, instead of dying shortly after their reproductive days are over (and thus saving their society the cost of feeding them)? It turns out that grannies are vital to rearing of their grandchildren.
In BBC News, Victoria Gill quotes researcher Michael Cant as saying that both humans and whales have balanced “the costs and benefits of breeding with the costs and benefits of switching off breeding.”
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When we hear about some countries refusing to stop killing whales because they like whale meat, we can at least be happy to know that most of it is TOXIC, because sperm whales have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals such as cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury and titanium–all of which are poisonous to humans.
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