Whales in the news. July 12, 2009. "Watching Whales Watching Us"

The following quote is from a current news article in The New York Times which can be read in it's entirety here. This article discusses current whale research and a recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision.

Whales, we now know, teach and learn. They scheme. They cooperate, and they grieve. They recognize themselves and their friends. They know and fight back against their enemies. And perhaps most stunningly, given all of our transgressions against them, they may even, in certain circumstances, have learned to trust us again.