Introduction to the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Whales and Dolphins

摘要

In the first half of the nineteenth century, a white sperm whale of impressive size and strength daunted whalers off Chile. Mocha Dick, as the whale came to be known, retaliated with audacity and cunning when attacked. On one occasion, he suddenly breached to come to the aid of a mother whose calf had just been slaughtered by the whalers. When, aged and half-blind, he was killed, his body, about 21 meters long, bore 20 harpoons.