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Mr. Garrett. No, I didn't say that. Certainly not. Where was this ? 

 Mr. Keith. I would say it was near the end. 



Mr. Garrett. That was about the time I was hurrying along to get 

 over the testimony. 

 Let me see. I say here : 



If the term intelligence is used in an interspecies context as a synonym for 

 humanness, it is clear that no living creature can possibly be by definition, as 

 "intelligent" as we are. 



I may have coined a word there. 



But are we justified in supposing because a whale or a walrus represents a 

 different evolutionary history, does not have hands, and cannot manipulate, 

 manage or, of course, destroy its environment, that its awareness is necessarily 

 less significant than our own? 



Mr. Keith. I have often wondered about the communications be- 

 tween mammal and the species. Maybe it is entirely possible. From 

 my observation of various kinds of waterlife, I would say they have 

 sophisticated means of communication. 



Mr. Garrett. Dr. Tayler down at Port Elizabeth South Africa has 

 been watching dolphins teach the infants dolphin language. He main- 

 tains that he now knows about a thousand dolplun "words." Dr. Lilliy 

 conducted a study of dolphin communication through the 1960's. I 

 don't know really what became of that. Several years ago Dr. Lilly 

 was calling for fmiding, for breaking the interspecies communica- 

 tion barrier. Other than liis work and the work done by Colin Taylor, 

 I don't know of anything significant. 



Mr. Potter. If you have scientific papers or supporting material 

 that you would like us to look at, we would be delighted to have it. 



(After the close of hearings, the following material was supplied to 

 the committee by Friends of the Earth for inclusion in the record:) 



Whales of the World and Friends of the Earth, a REa>0RT 



On Monday, July 26, a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee 

 met to hear testimony for and against a proposed 10 year moratorium on all 

 whaling. The legislation, H.J. Res. 706, would instruct the Secretary of State to 

 call for a 10 year international moratoriiun on the killing of all species of whales. 

 My testimony as six)kesman for the Friends of the Earth supporting the mora- 

 torium is appended below. The arguments used against the moratorium are both 

 interesting and absurd. They are presented here with the hope that Friends of 

 the Earth will be able to coimter them effectively in the struggle to save our 

 cetacean brothers of the high seas. 



The spokesman for the State Department admitted that . . . "The (International 

 Whaling) Commission has been, to say the least, an imperfect mechanism for 

 the conservation of tlie whale stocks." Why did he not admit that there have 

 been no changes what-so-ever in the organization and oi>erating methods of the 

 Commission? That would be an admission that the Whaling Commission can be 

 no more effective in the future than it was in the past. 



The State Department spokesman expressed the opinion t2iat the U.S. should 

 work to strengthen the International Whaling Commission. To advocate a 10 year 

 moratorium would be considered as a rejection of the Commission, and should 

 not be undertaken now that there is hoi>e for future success. He stated that the 

 Whaling Commission took on new life in the 1960's with a leading role played by 

 the U.S. He stated . . . "There is no question, however, but that substantial 

 progress has been made over these years. During that period . . . prohibitions 

 have been added against the killing of blue whales and humpbach whales." What 

 l^erverse and malicious nonesen.se ! Under the so called protection of the Inter- 

 national Whaling Commission the blue whale and the humpback whale were 

 slaughtered not only to the point of commercial extinction but to the verge of 

 biological extinction. When no morewhere to be found the Whaling Commission 

 banned future killing. To take pride in such a ban is like pride in a touching 

 prayer uttered at the funeral of one's own homicide victim. 



