No surprise to me.
The Chinese care nothing about animal cruelty. For some reason they have massive egos that
lead to small hearts. This photo is just
another form of proof. I posted in the text of the story below, but you can
view the story at: http://gawker.com/chinese-tourists-snap-selfies-with-dying-dolphin-514264840?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Very telling too, is this line at the end of the story: “The tourists have yet to be identified in
the press, but it will unlikely lead to any charges as China does not currently
have any laws on the books that protect non-endangered species.”
Chinese Tourists Snap Selfies with Dying Dolphin
Tourists who stumbled onto a gravely injured dolphin while
swimming off the coast of Sanya City in the Chinese province of Hainan are
being blasted on local social networks for manhandling the distressed animal
and posing with it for pictures in lieu of alerting wildlife authorities.
The dolphin later died of "excessive bleeding" at
a nearby marine park, according to Shanghai Daily.
Experts believe the dolphin may have collided with a fishing
boat, as evidenced by the injury to its tail.
A group of men who found the stranded dolphin proceeded to
lift it out of the water and take photos of themselves, which were later posted
to the microblogging service Sina Weibo.
Users were outraged, saying the photos, exhibiting a basic
disregard for life, shook their faith in China.
One user, who noted that dolphins were highly evolved
mammals with "an IQ only a little lower than humans," contrasted that
by saying the "people in the pictures are worse than pigs."
The tourists have yet to be identified in the press, but it
will unlikely lead to any charges as China does not currently have any laws on
the books that protect non-endangered species.
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