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Anthropomorphism — "a fast route to empathy" is rejected by many scientists but maybe it's "exactly the right response."

Writes Susan Casey —  author  of “Voices in the Ocean: A Journey Into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins” — "The Orca, Her Dead Calf and Us."

... Tahlequah, also known as J35, a 20-year-old female orca... gave birth to a female calf, who lived for just 30 minutes... Tahlequah kept the body at the surface, supporting it on her head or holding it in her mouth... [for] 10 days and counting, on what social media observers and orca researchers call a “tour of grief.” ....

While we can never hope to fully grasp another species’ experiences, orca behavior and neuroanatomy point to a complex inner life.... So orcas feel emotions, however exotically, which in turn strikes an emotional chord in us.....

Heartbreak for Tahlequah is an appropriate starting point. In a way, it’s the easy part. What’s harder is turning our shared sense of grief for this mother into an impetus to solve the problems plaguing the dwindling southern resident orca population....

Is Casey saying that anthropomorphism is "right" because  it's useful in winning support for doing something that needs to be done for reasons disconnected from the animal's resemblance to a human being? If anthropomorphism is a substituted false reason that works in one case, what will you do about other things that need to be done that do not happen to make sentimental humans think that animal is like me?

What if another orca was so smart that it made noises that translate to "I'll never let go, I promise"...



... and then let the baby drop down into the depths of the waters because it understood that never letting go means never letting go of the memory of the life that no longer exists? That more human Tahlequah would not create a heart-tugging visual of its similarity to humans. The orca must showboat its resemblance to us — to our idea of who we are — to get the anthropomorphism. It's so inaccurate. And yet, ironically, it's this absurd inaccuracy that make us human.

Speaking of inaccuracy, an orca is not a whale. It's a dolphin. I wonder if the author of a book about the "Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins" is troubled that at one point the phrase "These whales" is substituted for "orcas." I presume the editor is to blame, and my heart goes out to Susan Casey... but my heart will go on.

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