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Baby Dolphin Dies After Argentinos Pass It Around For Selfies
too long? too truthful.
Can you blame them for trying to blame it on tourists?
Japan is like "What, it was probably research, just like us they wanted to see how long it could live out of the water. Purely scientific... although we cant let it go to waste. amirite?"
I don't get any of this now with the claims they didn't kill it. There was a video of an alive dolphin swimming, a guy took it from the water and it was moving, alive, and put it on the ground and everyone went over and swarmed around and starting taking pictures.
That wouldn't happen on parts of the California coast, and the Pac NW. There are volunteer organizations devoted to patrolling the beaches to keep an eye out for stranded cetaceans (whales, dolphins), to protect them from the public, make sure they get proper assistance, and to educate the public about them.
Which makes them tourists...just like when people come to my beach town for vacation in the summer, they are tourists regardless of whether they live 30 minutes away or 2500 miles. What on earth is your definition of a tourist?
Take a chill pill.
I don't know why you are asking me "what on earth" is my the definition of tourist when I said that they were probably all tourists. People mentioned other countries, I just said I only heard argentinian accents, simply implying they were not international tourists.
The dictionary definition of the term tourist is so broad it could include anyone that goes to beach for pleasure. The practical definition of the term is quite different, no reasonable person would call someone from Philadelphia that travels for the day to the Jersey Shore, or from Denver that travels for the day to Vail, to be a tourist. And there is a certain affluence implied by the term Tourist.
The use of the term tourist implied it was a first world problem, the ugly American (or euros) taking selfies at the expensive of local wild life. The tourist characterization made the story more viral. If the title of the story was "Argentinians Kill Rare Baby Dolphin Taking Selfies" we would not have a thread about it. fwiw, I don't think the use of the term tourist was a conspiracy to shame Americans or euros, just a typical media effort to increase a story's shock value.
I personally believe they were argentinian tourists, not locals driving a few miles to their nearest beach.
I think the way these vacations work is not just like going to the beach for the day. People have to drive hundreds of miles and they stay in resorts and hotels. I believe this place is more than 200 miles from the capital, Buenos Aires.
I am from another country in South America and that's how our vacations went. We used to read a lot of argentinian magazines and comics and I recall it was the same way for them.
And what you think it's shock value I think unfortunately it's the truth. These people were probably affluent and more frivolous than we wish they were. The dolphin was at the wrong place with the wrong people, a bunch of idiots who happened to be all at the same place by chance. I doubt they represent the average Argentinian, they just represent the average self-absorbed social media user.
Well if it was already dead, I guess that's a relief, unfortunately. If it was alive, it probably would've been going in shock being tossed around and surrounded like that. That and well the fact that it was out of water.
Looked lifeless and dead from the get go to me. What's all the hub-bub about?
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