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(applause) >> we're back with ric o'barry, the academy award winner for "the cove." what makes a dolphin unique compared to all the other fish and wild life that might be in the ocean? >> well, one thing is they're self-aware like humans and great apes like many, many other animals. dolphins saved the lives of humans, elian gonzalez the human boy saved by dolphins, there's many stories of dolphins saving the lives of humans. we've never heard of another wild animal coming out of the jungle to save the life of a human. this is altruiusm. if somebody in this audience

Wasn't quite what you thought? >> i love japan. most of the people in japan don't bother dolphins. i work for earth island institute we don't support boycott for japan save the whales save the dolphins. it's a blanket indictment against all of the people they are not guilty. there are 13 vot boats in tiji killing dolphins. there are 26 guys basically. there are 324 people who don't kill dolphins. it's a wonderful place. we are hoping to get a thousand people to show up with us when the killing season starts. it's about to end now in the end of march. it will start again september 1st. if we ca...

Suicide? >> well, you have to understand dolphins are not automatic air breathers like we are. every breath is a conscious effort and so if life becomes too unbearable, they have the option of not taking the next breath and i think it's more common than we know about. in the cove, in japan, for example, i see this one there and i go there four or five times a year and i see this happening before my eyes. now, you might not see that because you can't read their body language like he can, but dolphins can commit suicide and other whales. >> and you had this moment where you saw kathy, we know as...

Dolphins, they know better. they know they're self-aware. they look them in the eye every day, they give them names and so for the life of me, i can't figure out what they're doing there. >> so the trainers are obviously selecting the best of them, particularly the ones that look like flipper 'cause that's the one the public is going to want to see. what happens to the rest of them now that they've herded them into the cove. >> we never know the exact details how they were killed because the cove is out of sight so it took some doing to photograph that covertly and that's one of the reasons th...

That's one of the reasons we don't-- i work for earth island institute by the way, we don't support boycott japan, save the whales, save the dolphins because it's a blanket indictment against all japanese people and they're not guilty. there are 13 boats who are killing dolphins, two men in each boats and talking about 26 guys, 3,400 people there who don't kill dolphins and it's a wonderful place and we're hoping to get a thousand people to show up with us on september 1st when the killing season starts. it's about to end now the end of march, but it will start up again september 1st and if we...