Beautiful Creatures

I glimpsed a news item on one of the breakfast news stations a few days ago. I only caught the end of it but the presenters were interviewing a diver who was telling his story...

He and another diver ( as far as I gathered there was only one other diver with him at the time ) were out in the ocean when , all of a sudden , there was a pod of dolphins completely surrounding them.
And CLOSELY surrounding them , for awhile.
One ( or both ) of the divers then realized that there was a shark ( great white ? ) in the water nearby and that the dolphins had closed ranks around the divers to protect them.
The shark eventually moved on and the divers , with the dolphin escorts , swam safely to shore.

I cannot , cannot , tell you how much I love dolphins. I love animals/mammals/birds/etc in general....

Actually , to note , I feel a huge affinity , respect and love for the feline species ; big & wild and small & domestic....

But dolphins ... oh those mammals are such remarkable, beautiful beings that I almost feel as if we dont deserve such beauty on earth.
It makes my soul weep in anguish to know that dolphins are slaughtered by assholes .... or caught and slowly dying in nets cast by ... you got it ; assholes.

I remember once seeing an article along with photos , showing fishermen in some asian country , in a boat .... and the river they were on was bright red.....
It was as if someone had filled a dry riverbed with red paint.
A river filled with pain.....
And they were slaughtering dolphins trapped in this river , trapped by them.
The dolphins were crying to each other ( and probably to the men ).
These creatures are like humans in the sense that they know they're being murdered. Don't ask me to explain how they differ to other mammals/animals in this respect. They have a high intelligence ( their brains are the same size as a humans brain )but I'll go out on a not so risky limb here and say that the dolphins intelligence is probably higher then a human beings.
So they cant build skyscrapers or write the lyrics to a hit song , or build an atomic bomb....
Doesnt mean we're of superior intelligence because we have the means to act on our thoughts .......

I sat there and cried like a baby , for a long time , after reading this article ( aint the first time I've cried over seeing what we do to other living things....)
My heart just hurt to its depths for them. To be honest , even now I have tears in my eyes thinkin about it.
I cant , cant , cant understand how humans can be so fucking deep-down , rotten UGLY!
These amazing mammals show nothing but love for us and a desire to protect us and men like these fishermen kill them in return.

For a long time , and even now , I wanted to work with dolphins but in order to be able to do that you need to go to college and study science/marine biology etc etc.
Theres gotta be something I can do to help them ....so I need to look into that.

I'll never make any apologies for the passion I feel for things such as this...
I would give absolutely anything to stop what we do to other living things for our own selfish means.

I'm deeply ashamed of part of the human race...

Not all .... just part.