Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction F or weeks now, a humpback whale has been trying to die. Entangled in ropes, it had wandered into the shallow Baltic Sea . Unable to feed, it