HWH ClipBoard: WHALES CAN BE ALTRUISTIC. JUST LIKE HUMANS. THE WHALE CHANGED MIND AND SPIT THE HUMAN OUT TO SAVE HUMAN LIFE.

I wonder if the fisherperson will reciprocate and release the lobsters he trapped?

The sign is there if you care enough to see it. STOP EATING FISH.

Remaining true to predatory human behavior, it’s unlikely the human will display the same compassion.

If the whale can change, so can the human.

Just to be clear, Michael Packard is not a lobster diver. He’s a lobster trapper.

• He traps lobsters to sell to humans, so humans can boil them alive and eat them. Imagine what being boiled alive feels like?

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On the other hand, the Whale may have shown the trapper a gesture of goodwill, wanting the trapper to leave the lobsters alone, so the Whales could eat them. That release action demonstrates strategy, which demonstrates intelligence sophistication.

BRAVO Whale!! An intentional teaching/lesson moment strategized by the Whale. Will humans heed the lesson?

What will Michael Packard do next? The ball is in his court.

Packard trapped the lobsters. Then the whale trapped him and released him. There’s only one next move.

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ARTICLE:

Lobster Diver Swallowed By Humpback Has A Whale Of A Tale To Tell

David Moye ·Reporter, HuffPost Fri, June 11, 2021, 5:58 PM  

Michael Packard has a whale of a tale to tell: He survived being swallowed by a humpback whale early Friday morning.

Around 8 a.m., the 56-year-old lobster diver jumped from his boat off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, to check one of his traps.

Packard was 45 feet below the ocean’s surface when he suddenly “felt this huge bump and everything went dark,” he told Boston-based CBS affiliate WBZ.

At first, Packard said, he feared he was the victim of a shark attack, but after noticing a lack of sharp teeth, he realized he was in the mouth of a whale that he believes was trying to swallow him.

“All of a sudden, I felt this huge shove and the next thing I knew it was completely black,” Packard told the Cape Cod Times. “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys, they’re 12 and 15 years old.”

Packard, who was still breathing through his regulator, said he struggled to get free. That apparently caused the whale to shake its head. Within 30 or 40 seconds, he said, the animal surfaced and ejected Packard from its mouth.

Packard’s shipmate, Josiah Mayo, says he saw Packard being expelled from the whale and fished him out of the water.

“My first thought was I can’t believe I got out of that situation. My second thought was for how injured I was,” Packard told the Cape Cod Times.

Although Packard was taken to a local hospital, his injuries turned out to be less severe than he first thought ― just a lot of soft tissue damage.

Marine mammal expert Peter Corkeron of the New England Aquarium told the Boston Herald that whales like the one that apparently swallowed Packard don’t actually eat people: They are “gulp feeders” that “slurp up as much as they can and then swallow it down.”

Corkeron suspects the whale was just trying to get fish and had no intention of turning Packard into breakfast.

He also said there’s evidence suggesting that humpbacks can be “altruistic” toward humans, which may be why the creature swam to the surface before spitting out Packard.

“It’s perfectly believable that the whale was trying to help him,” Corkeron said.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

Source: Lobster Diver Swallowed By Humpback Has A Whale Of A Tale To Tell

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