The Monterey Bay Aquarium released the great white that they have been caring for the past 6 months. I have been listening to NPR a lot on my drive into work and they just had a panel discussion on the subject a few days before with biologists from the aquarium as well as a shark field researcher against the captivity of this animal. Its funny that while I agreed with almost everything the field researcher said, his lack of tact and his hostility toward the other scientists put me off. It was hard to tell if he cared more for the animal or being right. In the end he should be happy, it only took a couple of days after his remarks for the shark to be released.
The debate made me think of elephants I had seen at the San Diego Zoo. As much as I admire the work that the zoo keepers and biologists do, you can't look at the elephants walking in circles or standing in place, rocking back and forth, and wonder if they wouldn't be better off in the wild.
