Humans - the Superior Beings?

Losing a child has to be every parent's worst nightmare. The all consuming grief that engulfs the parent, and the awkwardness of friends and family, not knowing what to say or do to help ease the overwhelming sadness.

In the animal world, grief seems to be more accepted, and the animals seem to know exactly what to do to support the grieving parent. Recently, a local orca from a residential pod of whales, gave birth to a female. The baby, for all intents and purposes, seemed healthy. A half hour later, it was dead.

The mother, grief-stricken, has been carrying the baby on her head since July 24, pushing her through the water, diving incredible depths to rescue her when she falls off and placing her back on her head. Researchers have stated that they knew this was normal behaviour for a grieving whale, but never for this long.

They've been concerned about the orca's health, but it seems her son has been bringing her food to keep her sustenance up while the pod has been travelling up to 110 km per day, while she lags behind.

The experts have stated that orcas are an endangered species, and they are at a loss as to why recent babies are only living 3 years at the most, many dying shortly after birth. This makes me incredibly sad, as they are such magnificent creatures, and I wonder, why is it never mentioned that the radiation from Fukushima is still leaking into the water? It's like we can't mention that, as that would be too obvious, and politically incorrect for some reason.

Shortly after Fukushima happened, the government put a ban on any news regarding how much radiation was leaking into the ocean. The same old thing, if we don't talk about it, it didn't happen and it won't affect us.

Well it is affecting the sea life - hugely, and you can't tell me that it isn't affecting the whales and everything else that calls the ocean 'home'. So why don't the researchers ever say, well, we think it's the radiation still leaking from Fukushima? Probably because they can't do anything about it, (or won't), and it would be laying blame and pointing fingers at Japan. So instead, they just play dumb.

It's no wonder that I sometimes feel more empathy towards animals than I do humans. They, unfortunately, are at our mercy, and yet, we're so 'smart' we're destroying our own homes and environment, and that of other creatures.

Tell me again why we're the 'superior' beings?