[pdevr]

About the female whale whose dorsal fin was punctured: "Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale"

A macabre kinship that involved spearing her calf. And eventually, killing the female whale herself while trying to kill her calf again.

[ianmcgowan]

That is a partial quote:

"Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale, choosing not to try to kill her again. But he had no problem shooting the whale’s calf. One summer, when he raised his spear and took aim at the calf, his spear went askew, hitting the mother instead.

With that, he’d had enough. That was the last time Ólafur speared a whale."

[chefkd]

A mother's love is unconditional like 99% of the time regardless of the species and humans are more or less the same across culture, time and space 99% of the time :(

does anyone ever think about a less vicious world? like I know evolution / survival of the fittest all that is a thing but did it have to be like this? Could we have evolved without killing?