A proposal to import 18 beluga whales for popular interactive park attractions in the United States is drawing fierce opposition from animal rights advocates and others who object to their removal from the wild.
Actually, that wasn’t the part I wanted to single out. This was:
At least four of the nation’s largest marine parks, including the Georgia Aquarium, invite visitors to don wet suits and pet or be nuzzled by the animals for $140 to $250. The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago offers couples, for $450, a romantic wading experience that can culminate in a marriage proposal with Champagne, strawberries and the beluga as a de facto chaperon.
To be honest, I’m not sure I’d want to marry a woman who found “a romantic wading experience” with “the beluga as a de facto chaperon” a good idea. I can live with strawberries (though I think they’re the most overrated fruit) and there’s nothing wrong with champagne, but adding a beluga whale to the equation is not romantic.
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Caviar, on the other hand…what? That comes from the Beluga sturgeon, not the whale? Uhm, nevermind…
Glen:
You should know better than to get me started on the continuing caviar crisis.
The beluga is there to make the bride and/or groom look thinner.
“Honey, you look relatively thin compared to a beluga whale. Let’s get married.”
And they say romance is dead.