We should Grant Rights on Cetaceans.

Cetaceans do deserve rights. You may just say that cetaceans are just like any other animal, however, they're actually very intelligent because: They can recognize themselves in a mirror and are one of the only animals who can do that. Their brains are almost as big as humans (which shows how they're intelligent) Cetaceans can communicate with each other and grieve for their death. They should might as well be called animals that are similar to humans, but like in the ocean.Cetaceans are not like any other animal. They're like your dog, too, if you ever had one. Check out this story, by The Guardian "At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the dolphins help to keep their pools clean. Kelly has taken this task one step further. When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on. This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly has a sense of the future and delays gratification. She has realised that a big piece of paper gets the same reward as a small piece and so delivers only small pieces to keep the extra food coming. She has, in effect, trained the humans.""Depending on the level of rationality, intelligence, and pain sensitivity an animal has, the more rights it should have. Under this ethical framework, a whale or a dolphin would more or less be the moral equivalent of a young child, the mentally handicapped, and possibly a fetus, depending on the latter's stage of development. Cetacean rights and fetal personhood advocates could become unlikely allies in the years ahead."~ Nick Sibilla, from Reason.com >Cows are not the same as cetaceans. I will on from con's arguments. " what would need to be done is more policing of the international waters, which not only presents a question of who owns the waters and who would police them, but is also quite impossible. The ocean is a big place. Giving Ceteceans rights will not stop cruelty.">Yes, I agree that the ocean is a big place, however, I'm not saying that we need to watch the ocean. We just need to watch the beaches and coastlines. Everyone needs food, stuff, and fresh water so when they come back on their boats, they would be caught and they will be punished."If people aren't allowed to take whales in to be researched, then we will not gain any further knowedge about these beasts. Researchers need to be able to tag and track them so we can know the existing population."> The people who are "researching" these whales aren't real researchers. They are just trying to find out about what was already solved. They're not tagging the whales either because all of them are dead and found in meat shops, days later. The number of whales are decreasing and there is no reason why they would "keep track" of the existing population if they're not going to use the information and they're the ones who are decreasing it.Well this is all for now.