Whats the difference between a whale and a fish?
The answer, as any school child knows, is that a crumbed whale fillet would clearly be out of proportion to a scoop of chips (fries) and there’s not a sheet of paper in the world big enough to wrap it. Whales are also mammals, but that’s by the by. It’s far from by the by with ecologists and Greenpeace. Whales breathe air just like us, we are told, it’s just that their air intakes are on the top of their heads and ours are at the front. They are also intelligent, we are told. Yep, intelligent enough to be the only occupants of the huge ocean to get lost in it and swim ashore in large numbers to die. Apart from that substantial glitch in an otherwise well-formed system they are indeed creatures of intelligence, and they possess emotions and feel pain. A harpoon in the side would indeed feel similar to what a human would feel if they had a dagger plunged into them. They would know full well they were mortally injured if struck. Some of their species are threatened with extinction, we are
