[docdeek]

Are the white-sided dolphins that are at issue here endangered? Wikipedia says they aren’t, ranked as ‘Of Least Concern’ on the conservation scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_white-sided_dolphin

[mcculley]

https://hwdt.org/atlantic-white-sided-dolphin says there are only 300,000 of them. Killing 1,400 at a time seems like an easy way to endanger the species.

[Grustaf]

Not if you only do it once every few decades. Normally they kill much much fewer.

[pvaldes]

Yep, they said the same with the great auk

[Grustaf]

It's a statistical fact, last time they killed this many was before the war.

[musha68k]

Endangered or not, cetacean intelligence is likely on par with ours. As we get more and more certain that this is the case there will also be increasingly more moral implications here.

I’m not saying that a pig in comparison has less worth by the way. Quite the contrary.

[pvaldes]

They are very pelagic and don't get close to the coast, so difficult to study. I had seen two in my life.