The Clickety-Clack of Bleating Hearts
The Clickety-Clack of Bleating Hearts All is well on earth. Aye aye Captain. Good Citizen There was no scheduled bleating for today but then I strolled the beach from Flamingos to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle and back and as the sun rose through the final third of the journey a pod of dolphins emerged not far from shore and clicked at me. When I finally rounded the bay I knew what their clicks were meant to communicate. It all translated into one searing image in my mind’s eye of a sheep, bleating out in pain. Did the dolphins recognize a kindred spirit in this fluffy ram, blindfolded and muted? Were they holding up a mirror and demanding I take an honest look? They say dolphins can sense the pain of others and are capable of communicating empathy. Maybe this is simply human researchers seeing what they want and anthropomorphizing a mammal they were told from birth was the smartest. A Dolphin trainer and Mammologist in Miami arrives to work after some brief time off due to her husband’s sudd