WHALES

Most assuredly whales are not fish,Whales and men trace the same ancient lineage through creatures born in the warm water of the primal oceans who exiled themselves to the precarious environment of the dry land. Although they bear a superficial resemblance to fishes, whales have little in common with the scaly tribe. When they returned to the sea they brought with them an intelligence of a radically new order one that had evolved as a direct consequence of the ferocious difficulties which all terrestrial animals must face in order to survive. On the other hand, the emerging human stock had to battle desperately for survival in a bitterly rigorous environment, not only against an array of other animals which were often physically and functionally superior, but against the organized and warlike competition of their own species. Going out and coming back to the sea enables them to survive successfully as a natural beings yet they were beings who, like protoman endowed with a great intellectual potential.
   Studies suggested that the more advanced whales have brains comparable with and, perhaps, even superior to ours, both complexity and capacity. It is clear that their power to think has steadily increased, even as ours has, over the millennia. There can be one reasonable assumption for all this whales must use their minds and use them fully in some directions, in some manner for some purpose which evades our compensation. So whales and men diverged from the common ancestry, one to become the most lordly form of life in the oceans, and the other to become the dominant animal on the land. The day came when the two would meet. The meeting was not a peaceful one, in mutual recognition of each other's worth. As usual, it was man who set the terms and he chose battle. It was a one sided battle where man wielded the weapons, and the whales did the dying.