TOKYO – Fisherman who were carrying out their annual dolphin hunt captured a dolphin that had human arms!
Fishermen at the Japanese town made famous by the controversial Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove” shrugged off protests by animal rights activists on Tuesday to carry out their annual dolphin hunt.
One of the first dolphins they captured shocked them; in fact, it had human arms!
The first hunt of the season took place on Tuesday in the town of Taiji, as reported by Japanese broadcaster TBS; however, the number of dolphins involved was not mentioned.
Fourteen dolphins were reported killed, while another six—mothers and calves—were spared, at least temporarily. No news emerged regarding whether the dolphin with human arms, nicknamed Luka, had been killed.
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Western activists were chanting, “Mama dolphin, baby dolphin.At the time of Luka’s discovery, people said ‘No! Actually, the activists were the first to notice because Luka started clapping along to the chant – using his human hands.
“It was incredible. The Japanese fishermen pulled Luka into the boat and he punched a few of them with his human fist,” said Rainbow Williams, an activist from San Francisco. “Luka has a strong punch and I think he knocked out two or three fisherman with his punches.”
It became something of a brawl between the quick-jabbing dolphin and the Japanese fishermen; consequently, tensions escalated. But they eventually threw a net over Luka’s head and subdued him with a tranquilizing dart.
Despite the activists’ attempts to get involved in the fray, Japanese fishermen managed to hold them off by firing gunshots over their heads.
What will the Japanese fisherman do with Luka?
“We will be bringing Luka to a marine biology research center in Osaka. We will keep him safe and study him there.”
“Bullshit!! They are going to kill him,” said Williams. “We need to free Luka. Free Luka! Free Luka!” There are hundreds of protesters outside the research facility waiting for the Japanese to release Luka – but it doesn’t seem like it will be happening anytime soon.
No international treaty is claimed by Japan to ban killing dolphins, furthermore they assert that the animals are not endangered. They argue that culling dolphins is necessary to protect fishing grounds.
Free Luka!!!
incredible!
another photoshop?
Does this dolphin have opposable thumbs? Luka would be a very rare find if this was the case .. otherwise I'm not impressed. Throw him in a cage with Mike Tyson and let the two of them fight to the death — ticket sales can go to the Wildlife Conservatory
Are you the sus impostor
Sick that this killing still occurs…human animals are the lowest form on earth and eventually will eradicate themselves…STUPID HUMAN TRICKS…
See, this is the kind of stuff we never hear about on the regular news. Thank God for WWN!
My friend caught one of those and released it, but it wasn't named Luka. Must have been a different one.
your picture is some kind of whale anyway, hope you didnt tink you was fooling anyone dumass
so photo shopped!!
jolene et al…. people seem to think it is photshopped, but this was actually taken by Japanese photographer Araka Nobyoshi. you can say anything is photoshopped, but at some point you have to believe the truth!!
Number one: Nobuyoshi Araki is not and never has been an underwater photographer or a wildlife photographer. He does portraits, some more on the side of erotica.
Secondly, where was this photo taken? If the first they saw of this creature was as it was hauled onto a boat in front of a crowd how come no one had pictures of that event? Why is this picture underwater? This is not explained.
And yeah, you are insulting Nobuyoshi. Not cool.
it is photoshopped but it could b ttrue becuase fish did evolve in the water and grew there limbs in water before they came on land but this is soo fake!!
…Lol.
Could this be an experiment gone wrong or is it an alien?
Hahahahahaha that’s funny
LOL so cool, maybe later WWN will make a news that dolphin has human legs, face, body, etc… LOL
should japan even be hunting dolphins?
I miss the old days of WWN when their doctored photos were truly works of art.
First time I saw this was in the early 90s. I clipped the pic and used it for my crappy xeroxed zine. Glad to see this pre-internet meme lives on.