So far, animal rights' ideology has not been too visible in the campaigns against whaling and sealing. And even more widespread is the dogma of whale rights. This is explained by their intelligence, abilities to communicate, social life, etc. From a purely scientific point of view, there is little or no evidence to indicate that seals or whales deserve such status. Some of the arguments submitted to this end, for example that whales are monogamous, are myths quite removed from reality.
Whales are different.
They live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs but as a source of encouragement to mankind. We oppose commercial whaling because whales have an intrinsic value as mammals of great intelligence, whose behaviour and language set them apart. Parallels between a whale's life and that of our own make whale deaths even more disturbing. Whales live in family groups.