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Angel the Albino Dolphin in Taiji Whale Museum
Published on Jan 27, 2014
Cove Monitor Karla Sanjur took this footage of Angel, the baby albino dolphin, in her newly captive situation at the Taiji Whale Museum, a stone's throw from where she was forever separated from her mother, family and the ocean. She is displaying unnatural behaviors - not swimming with the other dolphins, infrequently coming up for air - it looks as though she is suffering from the enormous trauma she has just endured. Read more at dolphinproject.org
* If you haven't heard about this the mother "committed suicide" when separated from her baby when rounded up
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“But Angel doesn’t deserve a life sentence to captivity,” he adds. “Angel was torn from her or his mother, which she still depends on. And her mother will be slaughtered and sold for meat, while Angel will sit in a tank to be a freak on display.”
Sadly, according to Sea Shepherd, the calf’s mother may have already died.
“There is widespread speculation that the mother of the albino calf committed suicide after her baby was violently taken from her.
“Our volunteer Cove Guardians documented and witnessed the grieving mother repeatedly spy-hopping, looking for her calf, before lowering herself into the water, never to resurface.”
And this is just once instance of separation and death that has been playing out in the killing cove over the last week – a hunt that O’Barry described as “one of the most violent dolphin captures that I have ever witnessed in my 45 years of working with dolphins.”
To support of the organizations on the ground working around the clock to bring awareness to this year’s hunt, the Internet has started rallying around such symbols as Angel.
A Facebook page titled “The Angel of Taiji” has soared from some 250 likes yesterday to more than 2,200 today. The international “hacktivist” group Anonymous also rallied to briefly take down the webpage for Wakayama Prefecture, where Taiji is located and the site for the Japanese Aquarium.
https://www.facebook.com/theangeloftaiji