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Society, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, et cetera, a joint 

 exhibit called the National Panorama for Conservation Action. 



Starting in Arizona, this huge panorama, more than 30 yards in 

 length, has traveled from mall to mall across the length and breadth 

 of tliis land, across Texas, into Florida, up the southern coast, through 

 New England, and now back into the Midwest, heading towards its 

 close in California. This week the exhibit is in Omaha, Nebr. Last 

 week it was in Lincoln, Nebr. 



I assure you, Mr. Chainnan, there are not many ocean mammals in 

 Lincoln, Nebr., nor in Omaha. But I also assure you, Mr. Chairman, 

 that the people there care about ocean mammals. To our exhibit, for 

 example, came thousands of schoolchildren. 



One of them pointed to our seal pictures. They show first the club- 

 bing of the baby seals in Canada, then the clubbing of the adult seals 

 in Alaska. Underneath is written, "Our country, too, clubs seals." 



One child, who could not have been more than 11 or 12 years old 

 looked at the exhibit for a long time. His face clouded. Then, suddenly, 

 there was hope in it. "My goodness," he said. "Mr. Amory, cannot you 

 stop it? Through TV Guide?" 



Seriously, Mr. Chairman, let us thank God that that child had not 

 yet grown up, that he did not yet know of man's infinite capacity to 

 rationalize his own cruelty. 



Mr. Chairman, I have found in my mail, in my travels, and in person 

 something I am sure you gentlemen have found far more, and far more 

 accurately, than I have — something I dare say was directly responsible 

 for these hearings, and this is something which I can only describe 

 as a new wind blowing through our land. 



Only a few short years go, a very small number of people would 

 have been at all concerned with what concerns us here today. Only 

 a few voices were then raised against any animal abuses, pathetically 

 few for abuses seemingly as far removed as those concerned with 

 ocean mammals. But now those few voices have grown into an army. 

 And it is a new kind of anny — the army of the kind. 



Two years ago the Fund for Animals started something off the west 

 coast of California called the Wildlife Protection Patrol — the coun- 

 try's first coast guard for animals, to prevent the ravishing and cruel 

 abuse of sea mammals by so-called sportsmen and others. 



The Wildlife Protection Patrol, Mr. Chairman, had only one 

 power — moral power. But that moral power has, time and time again, 

 proved far more powerful than power power. And something else was 

 proved by the Wildlife Protection Patrol — that, as our friends on the 

 beaches of California learned more and more about our fellow crea- 

 tures of the deep, an extraordinary bond was created. Mr. Chairman, 

 the true horror of what we are talking about today is that some of 

 these mammals are going to be extinct before we even have learned 

 anything about them. 



Let me give you just one interesting case — the experiments of Dr. 

 John Lilly with the dolphin. Dr. Lilly found that, in some cases, the 

 bond between his researchers and dolphin became so deep that when 

 the researchers were reassigned, or when it became clear to the dolphins 

 that, no matter how hard they tried, they were not going to be able to 

 establish real communication, the dolphins first appeared distressed 

 and then, in some cases, they died. In fact, they literally committed 

 suicide. Dr. Lilly then gave up his experiments. 



