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The news finally broke that the slaughter in Taiji is coming to an end. My hands are shaking after all this time but we actually reached the finish line together. Keep watching the coastline because we have to make sure they stick to their word.

February 26, 2011

STOP THE BRUTAL KILLING OF DOLPHINS IN TAIJI (JAPAN)

STOP THE BRUTAL KILLING OF DOLPHINS IN TAIJI (JAPAN)

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Started by Anonymous 15 years, 6 months ago

STOP HET AFSLACHTEN VAN DOLFIJNEN IN TAIJI (JAPAN)

(English text below)

Elk jaar, van september tot maart, worden duizenden dolfijnen zinloos en brutaal afgeslacht in Taiji (Japan).
Dit moet stoppen.
Teken de petitie nu en breng ook uw vrienden en familie op de hoogte. Hoe luider onze stem klinkt, hoe moeilijker het wordt om ons te negeren.
Hou ook de media in de gaten, u wordt deel van een krachtige campagne!

Eind februari gaan we samen met Tom Waes de petitie afgeven aan de ambassade van Japan in Brussel

Dank je!

Met de geapprecieerde en erg geëngageerde medewerking van Tom Waes en Dirk Draulans, Günther Brants (hln.be) en Annelies De Becker (demorgen.be)

Stand van de teller: 21 februari om 23u40: 60.407handtekeningen!! - Verspreid de link!

PS: nadat u tekent zal er een scherm openen waarin u geld kunt doneren. DEZE DONATIE IS NIET VOOR ONS, maar voor de ontwikkelaars van de petitie-software. U hoeft niet te doneren om te kunnen stemmen!


(English)

Every year, from September until March, thousands of dolphins are brutally slaughtered in the bay of Taiji (Japan)

THIS HAS TO END NOW.
Sign the petition and invite your friends and family to do the same. The louder our voice sounds, the harder it gets for the Japanese authorities to look the other way.

At the end of February we will hand over this petition to the ambassador of Japan in Brussels.

Thank you very much for your support!

PS: after you have signed, you will be redirected to a donation page. This donation is not for this campaign. It is a donation for the developpers of this free petition site. You can sign the petition without donating.

Updates

February 14, 2011

The counter just ticked past fifty thousand names. It is exhausting work to keep pushing against this reality but seeing this level of support keeps me going.

Reached 50,000 supporters

February 11, 2011

February 8, 2011

We just hit one thousand signatures and the weight of this task is starting to sink in. It is a draining process but seeing people respond gives me the energy to keep pushing through the resistance.

February 7, 2011

We just crossed ten thousand signatures. It is exhausting work to keep this momentum going but knowing so many people refuse to look away keeps me moving forward.

Reached 10,000 supporters

February 7, 2011

Reached 1,000 supporters

February 7, 2011

589 Comments

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Hilde H.
15 years ago Featured

Dolphins are highly intelligent mammals with extensive family structures and a sophisticated communications system. They belong into the ocean and not into an aquarium to perform tricks for food, like a circus animal. Close these unethical and inhumane institutions now.

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jan dicharry
12 years ago Featured

Please stop this inhumane and barbaric act on these dolphins!This is not Japan culture nor tradition! It is the greed and money that keep this going.It's the selling to marine parks,zoos,etc that keep the hunts alive.Please condemn this practice now!

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Jill Vickerman
12 years ago Featured

The rest of the worlds population is sick to death of Japans continuous disrespect and cruelty to Dolphins. You can see that lack of empathy and compassion when you see how a nation can do something like this.

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Jackie crew
11 years ago

Stop the slaughter!

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sadiedickinson
11 years ago

Leave our beautiful angels of the sea alone to swim free.

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Bob Rodenburg
11 years ago

Stop the madness! Think! of the future

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Bob Rodenburg
11 years ago

Stop the madness! Think! of the future

Kvas

STOP THE BRUTAL KILLING OF DOLPHINS

Kvas

STOP THE BRUTAL KILLING OF DOLPHINS IN TAIJI (JAPAN)

Joyce

Please stop!!!!!!

Veronika Malchevskaya

Please stop killing dolphins !!!

Cécilia SPOERRY

Stop the slaughter !

Dominique

Stop the slaughter !

Luksen

awfull!!

De Laet Margareta

Barbaars, Japanse produkten boycotten !

Irina

save the Taiji dolphins

clive

stop this brutality now

Natalie Allana Hodgkins

Stop this disgusting act of evilness! We are all living things we are all equal. These vile people not even humans need to stop this once and for all. I hope these people who do this die the same way they kill these innocent dolphins.

Henk Hollebeek

Stop this brutal horror killing of dolphins IMMEDIATELY!!!

Anonymous

You would surely not like to live in a cage, would you? So why should a dolphine live there when there is a sea waiting for him or her ... they deserve freedom too.

Amanda Keattch

This must be stopped!

Victoria Such

I support 100 percent!

Gilly Baker

PLEASE don't let this happen again! It is a source of shame to the whole human race.

Albert

please stop this cruel and unnecesary slaughter

Marlou w

Gruwelijk dit! Het zijn zulke mooie, vriendelijke zoogdieren die geen vlieg kwaad doen. Echt verschrikkelijk.

CM

Stop the killing of these beautiful animals.

Estie Kretschmer

"It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else." --Maimonides

clive

stop this brutality

Ksenia

save dolphins

Nailya

STOP HET AFSLACHTEN VAN DOLFIJNEN IN TAIJI (JAPAN)

Ferne

I've run out of things to say about how cruel and unessary this is

Olga Gourianova

The extermination of dolphins - a monstrous hardness measurable with the extermination of people. It has to stop on the entire planet!

Luka

Please share this

Alla Antonenko

Because I love dolphins and don't want them to suffer

Rose

STOP the slaughter!

Monique

Stop killing these innocent and intelligent animals!! They are so full of love...please don't hurt them anymore!!

de koker wilfried

Dit droever verhaal van flipper en andere dolfijnen kende ik nie.aangrijpend moet ik toegeven.succes!!!!

Alison

C'est honteux degueulasse faut à tout pris que se massacre s arrête

Vasilisa Tkaceva

Stop killing dolphins

Елизавета

Stop killing the dolphins!

Kristina

Help save the Taiji dolphins

Jean Olsen

The time of brutal slaughter and inhumane capture of dolphins is over. Please help to stop this. Thank you.

Aksana

I am against violence!

machteld de schrijver

Dolphins are one of the most clever animals, they hale feelings and they live in a community, like us... we as human beings with brains have to respect the nature and our cohabitants, so pleaue stop the horrible slaughter

Elena Goncharova

Please help to save the Taiji dolphins. They are killed so violently, what is the reason for such cruelty? No reason!!!! Please, stop it.

Natalya

Я верю в победу!!!!!

Antonina Burdonova

DOLPHINS SHOULD BE ALIVE!

noofar

Fight for those who can't.

todd dejulius

stop the killings.

celia souto

Sickening treatment of beautiful mammals that actually save humans lives.. shame on the murderers.. hope you get the same back at you scumbags

elaine gerbe

Stop this madness.

Brenda Lynch

this cruelty is totally unacceptable

Abhishek Chauhan

If a dolphin becomes trapped in the killing cove at Taiji, his fate is uncertain. He's at risk of suffering the cruellest of deaths — being slaughtered in what can only be described as a bloodbath. Please stop this annual brutality!

Diny

Stop

Michele kohinka

To be their voice.

Paulina

Horror.

Pauline Jones

Stop killing all of our animals! What is going to be left of the animal kingdom if we continue to slaughter them and decimate their habitats? Please Stop the Greed, Cruelty and Insensitivity!

nancy

Shocking

tammy guess

The brutal killings and captures of dolphins in #Taiji#Japan are unconscionable. People need to wake up and see the horrors of these needless drives. #IStandWithRicOBarry #DolphinProject #StopTheTaijiSlaughters

Heather Friedli

Please find compassion to do the right thing. Thank you.

Elizah ferris

This is disgusting and needs to stop!!

Ger vd Hooft

Japan stop killing dolphins!!

Winnie Lisowski

Taiji Cove in Japan is a sad sad place, blue seas turn red & dolphin families are torn away slaughtered & some kept to live a miserable life in captivity in Marine Lands doing tricks for the rest of their lives. This has to stop as they are highly intelligent animals who need freedom in the ocean

Debbie Hiltner

STOP

Karen Barr

Stop the dolphin genocide

Birgit Guhlstorf

cruel you should be ashame

[email protected]

Killing Dolphins Is Disgraceful!!!!

Christine netwal

Stop please

Laurel Brooks

The killing of dolphins is SO WRONG!!!! it needs to stop NOW!!!!!!!!!

Rachel Hart

Oh please no more!

Anonymous

this has to end please

Louise Tangri

Barbaric and unnecessary

Jen lord

End the slaughter!

Sharon Rousseau

How does a civilized country defend this year after year?

Biancazen

Spero tanto ke le firme possano fermare tanta CRUDELTÀ...

steve robertson

Senseless, disgusting butchery. What utter rubbish to mask it under the banner of science

Patrick Sutardjo

Stop the killing of Dolphins!!!

Trudie Beverloo

Stop the Slaughter in the water.

Jayne Cooper

It just must stop

Marianne van Beusichem

This horror most stop!!!

Susan cowling

Stop the dolphin slaughter please

Beverley Morreale

Stop the Slaughter in the Water It's INHUMANE and unnecessary!

Tiharu Nagatani

動物を自由にしてあげて下さい。

Anonymous

私は日本人です。日本に住んでいます。 ですが、私はイルカやクジラを食べるような風習はありません。 イルカやクジラを狩る事に嫌悪感を持っています。 必要ないと思います。 子供の世代には残したくありません。

Kate

Please help to stop this cruelty.

Manuela van Hall

please ban dolphin hunt - and dolphin and wale for meat!!

lennie rodoff

This must stop!!

Margherita Giuffrida

Basta violenza

Miss-candy Lefebvre

Stop

Kate Foley

These beautiful creatures befriend us and rescue swimmers in trouble, and they deserve better from us in return.

Lizette

Stop killing these beautiful intelligent beings please.

Sandeepa Bhambri

BAN Dolphin slaughter

Kathleen Frederiksen

This has got to end.

Elo regis

stop that killing madness and cruelty against other sensitive beings ....NOW is the change to come ...

Annette wessberg

Stupid evil crazy people. SAVE the dolfins

Ramona Fridley

disgusting

wanda carthy

please stop the killing !!!

constance

Shame on you Japan! We will never stop and by detaining Ric OBarry the whole world is watching!!!

Bonnie Spielman

“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.~ I feel that the hunters in Taiji enjoy what they do because they are brutal, cruel men. They have to be stopped!!!

Julie Abse

This should have been ended--don't wait till tomorrow!

kristen tan

Please end this unnecessary slaughter as you already have alternative food. Imagine your own happy free family torn apart. What goes around comes around. Amituofo

Toni Lethbridge

Stop this unnecessary slaughter immediately. It is all about the money. The greed and cruelty of some so called humans is overwhelming.

michaela blasch

Stoppen sie diese abscheuliche TreibJagd von Taiji sofort

Virginia Jacques

Shame on Japan!

Ana Maria

This horror must end now!

Sherry Stock-Stamper

STOP killing the gorgeous, loving creatures. They are a sailor's best friend. I've had the incredible ability to swim with dolphins in the wild and they are docile, friendly creatures. They have the ability to save a human life. STOP! STOP!! STOP!! You're brutally murdering one of God's precious creatures for NO GOOD REASON!! STOP YOUR BRUTAL MURDERINGS!!!! JOIN THE HUMAN RACE AND PROTECT THEM!!!!

Clare Greenhalgh

I cannot believe how barbaric people can be. These creatures are as intelligent as we are, if not more so. How can we kill them like this?

michaela blasch

Stoppt die TreibJagd von Taiji

lindia ward

THIS HAS TO END NOW.

Elena Budarnykh

STOP alla strage dei delfini !

Namrata Kumar

STOP! this senseless slaughter! Dolphins are highly intelligent, more than humans are. For humans to torture and slaughter them like this is a shame on humanity .

Nicki Svanstrom

This must end.

DeLin

stop this crazyness!

Sue Grainger

THIS HAS TO STOP!

Vicki Clelland

Stop the barbaric slaughter of innocent dolphins and whales

Machel Burgering

This is barbaric and insane! Enough of this murderous behaviour towatds these beautiful sentient cetaceans!

Julie Tidball

Stop this barbaric treatment of such beautiful beings

Naylies

STOP killing this most intelligent non humans !

Sharyn

Barbaric, inhumane and shameful. The world is watching!

Kathrena Vega

This is pathetic. Animals are so smart

Rita wooten

pure evil

ariane

Stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop.

Dian Keller

Thinks needs to stop because it is the morally right thing to do

Anna Arnstein

Stop killing animals!

Catherine Latona

Stop slaughtering & kidnapping dolphins. World is watching.

Leonor Ramirez

This is the shame of Japan ...

Blue

Make them stop this animal abuse!

Mandy gisbourne

Brutal treatment not needed. Eating these precious mammals not needed. Stop now for the love of God !!!!

t williams

Appalling that this practice still goes on!

Saskia

Can't we just all become vegan tree hugging hippies? Would solve a lot of the problems we've created......

Ann Jardmark

Stop this cruelty

Moira

This has to stop immediatly

Clare eagles

Horrific - how come people aren't aware of this

Amit unger

I'm in

Roswitha Stubenitsky

ST O P

Candice D

Japan has no honour and a disgrace to the rest of the world. So is the USA and SeaWorld who pay them to do their dirty work!! Both countries are a disgrace!

Jean Gillette

Stop the killing it is barbaric!

Sarah Vuu

Stop killing the water people. Primitive Japanese "people"

Lorna Clark

Beyond sick - what scum!

Suzanne Ursula Lebon Zurich

c'est ATROCE!!!

Geert-jan van Zundert

STOP DE AFSLAGTER

Sonia Bryan

Stop this disgusting barbarity asap. Japan, this is a disgrace to you and your people and you should hang your collective heads in shame foe allowing this sick destruction of dolphins to continue unabated for years. You truly have 'lost face' to the world in one of the worst ways possible. Utterly contemptible.

Brenda Lynch

This cruelty is totally unacceptable and appalling.

Wendy

Stop this animale cruelty!

Yana Kartamysheva

Stop it!!!!!please!!!

Maria

It's shame for Japan!! Stop killing dolphins!!

Romy van der waals

Please let it end soon

Anonymous

Stop!!

freja

that man can sell his big cars and still can buy the dolfins free (the man of flipper) the man that regret it .. know that i know dolfins belong to the see i never want to see shows again! expecially what crualty ppl do (take some and murder the families) no can do!

Inita Snaidere

This sold in slaughter should stop years ago and never should started in first place .your indifference will change planet in near future and one of us will pay price soon.There in no need for such intelligent mammals to saffer becoise somebody could make money !!! You are destroying balance on our planet by closing your eyes on this cruelty and huge problem! Please act and change future for our children !

Elena

Nobody should be killed or trapped in the cage!

Anna

Stop kill!!!!!!!!

Andrey

Убийствам стоп!

Nathalie baudoin

Stop with captur and killing the dolphins

Jennifer Brandt

Stop the slaughter of the dolphins

Jennifer Brandt

Please stop the slaughter

Max Tokar

HELP SAVE THE DOLPHINS

Aleksander Romanenko

Save the Earth

Alfiya Torgunakova

Japan’s international reputation is severely damaged by the continuation of these barbaric hunts that are as disturbing to many Japanese as they are to the rest of the world. Dolphins are extremely intelligent, emotionally complex animals with very real familial bonds, much like humans. Scientists who have reviewed the dolphin hunts indicate that such inhumane killing methods would not be allowed in any civilized slaughterhouse for farm animals, including in Japan under existing law. The terror and suffering of the dolphins as they are being slaughtered is palpable and abhorred by almost all who view it. The Taiji hunts only began in 1969, according to the town’s own history, so the killing of dolphins is not an “ancient tradition” as many Japanese leaders have claimed. Japan has a notable tradition, one that has a deep respect for nature and all the creatures in it. With that in mind, I call on you and others to show true leadership and finally end the inhumane dolphin hunts, protect dolphins, and help restore Japan’s international integrity and support from the world’s public.

philipe buyle

save future flippers

Olga Mankovskaya

STOP KILL!

Richard

Horrible

Dominique B

Let it stop

chelsea

dit mag niet!

Натали

Ни кто не имеет право отнимать жизнь и свободу у дельфинов. Не дельфины отнимают рыбу у японцев, а как раз наоборот, японцы отнимают рыбу у дельфинов. Рыба принадлежит дельфинам, моря и океаны это дом дельфинов и все что в нем находится им принадлежит, а японцы их обкрадывают и еще убивают.

Jasmina Enriquez

Stop met deze gruwelheden

Natalie Verstrepen

Wat een walgelijke mensen. Ik bedoel monsters! Waarom worden die dolfijnen zo afgeslacht? Welk nut heeft dat? Verveling? Frustraties? Belachelijke mensen. De mensen die zoiets doen mogen van mij allemaal ook zo afgeslacht worden, ik zal er persoonlijk bij helpen!!

Jos

Afschuwelijk

van daele sabine

these killings must be stopped

Johan Mangelschots

Stop killing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shokhida Mirzakhidova

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,”- Mahatma Ghandi

Elena Kredina

Stop killing!

clive

JAPAN YOU HEARTLESS SOULLESS SCUM. STOP THIS BRUTALITY!!

Svetlana

Stop such extreme cruelty

schrauwen

STOP MET DE DOLFIJNEN LAAT ZE IN DE NATUUR

Marjan

Geen enkel dier mag uit zijn/haar leefomgeving genomen worden voor het vermaak van mensen!

Marjan

Please stop this brutally killing of intelligent animals!! It breaks my heart to see this is still going on!

Margarita Kirika

Stop killing!Where is your humanity??We are leavng In 21th century!

Wouter Bosmans

Dierenrechten moeten primeren op plezier van mensen

Mathilde

C'est juste inadmissible de faire subir de tel chose à de si beaux animaux

Karel Burrick

Stop now

Chantal

Afschuwelijke praktijken en zinloos geweld!

Joost

This has to end! And also the old traditie Grindadráp

rico

its redicoules

DRUTOWSKI

NON AU MASSACRE DES DAUPHINS A TAIJI AU JAPON

Анастасия

Вы не имеете права отбирать жизнь у дельфинов. Люди по всему миру возмущены. Остановитесь пока не поздно.

Kateryna

Animals must live!

Elya Adel

Don’t killing dolphins

Gulmira

I want to help you

Roman Shcherbakha

save the dolphins!

Merchiers Didier

Dit kan echt niet!! Dit moet STOPPEN.

Moldyr

Please,stop exploiting dolpins

Tlektes

DOLPHINS DON’T BELONG IN CAPTIVITY!

Oleksandr

Stop it, please!

Anonymous

De mens graaft zo zijn eigen ondergang. Echt erg dat wij menen te mogen beslissen over het leven of de dood van zo'n intelligent wezen. En die circusacten in dolfinaria zouden ook al lang verboden moeten zijn... . Zo'n dieren horen niet thuis in een waterbassin.

Simone

please stop killing and torturing dolphins

Anonymous

please stop killing dolphins

Elisabetta Di Gregorio

Free animale

Linda

Apart volk die Japanners! Ik kan niet begrijpen hoe iemand het over zijn hart krijgt deze onschuldige dolfijnen te doden. Mijn hart breekt en hoop dat dit snel stopt!.

Tatyana Perminova

please, stop!

Sara Ouzaiou

Stop abuse and killing against dolphins please

Oksana

Please stop the killing of dolphins

Josh

STOP !

Jonathan Vanbellinghen

Stop à ce massacre!!!!

Saar Vanderbauwhede

Het is veel te erg wat ze doen met die dolfijnen, ik vind dit niet kunnen.

Anonymous

Het is heel slecht en moet stoppen en wel nu

Abdel

Stop the dolphin hunt

Roy Egbers

Zooo niet nodig, het zijn prachtige dieren die ook het ecosysteem in tact houden.

Mariia

Stop killing dolphins.

Regime Veenstra

Stop love this intelligent creaters

Марина

Прошу Вас, всем сердцем, умоляю.. Пожалуйста, защитите дельфинов. Их интеллект и чувства слишком подобны человеческим, их горе такое же. В этом мире пусть с трудом, но признали, что загонять стада людей, с их семьями, и убивать палками и копьями одних людей, чтоьы пленить и продать других людей - бесчеловечно и жестоко. Но с дельфинами ведь то же самое. И в этом нет нужды. Это не более, чем проявление недостойной злобы, высокомерия и эгоизма. Неужели экономика Японии пострадает от отказа в этом геноциде дельфинов?

Larisa Jelagina

Save the dolphins

Lisa Kushner

Stop kill smart animals

Juliana Tim

Stop

Vanek

THIS HAS TO END NOW

Cees Berends

This had to Stop at once. What a shame!

Lingg

Stop

Екатерина

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!

Анечка

I love dolphins

Andriy

Don’t kill

Lies Gaethofs

Just stop it already!

jenny

stop IT IT is horribel wat is happening to does por dolfins

Regina Veenstra

Help

Griet Vertessen

I cry.

Koen Ten Dam

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Ella Skuratovich

Stop killing dolphins, they will soon be gone! Why are the people of Japan so cruel? What is left after you exterminate everyone? Who gave the Japanese the right to kill these beautiful animals?

Tatyana

Stop killing Dolphins

Jacqueline Vossen

This should by banned by law worldwide scandalous disgusting people and government how can you as people do such a cruel thing

Kirsten

https://www.demorgen.be/cs-b194a86b Very good article.

Anonymous

Stop the killing

Paul Magrijn

Stop with capturing delphines. We are calling ourselves humans?.

Janny Lebbink

Stop killing

Dennis

Stop

vandermeervivian

STOP

Malou Henry

Just stop

Anonymous

STOP!!!

Nathalie

STOP the killing

Tamara

Save nature

D Veenstra

Zorg goed voor dolfijnen!!!

Anonymous

Deze mensen zijn monsters.

Jo zandstra

Zeer goede acties, heb altijd al een grote afkeer van dolfinarium gehad

Roger Geurts

Stop the brutal killing of dolphins in Taiji (Japan).

Charlotte

Stop the killing of these beautiful and free animals.

Karine J

Save the dolphins

Anonymous

Ik kom op voor de dolfijnen, ze moeten leven in vrijheid.

Jacky

L' ignominie humaine est sans limites ....

Philip De Smaele

Let them live

Xander

All together!!

Saloua

Stop dierenleed inclusief dolfijnenleed! Stop animal abuse included dolphin abuse please

eeman inge

Cruel!!! No intelligent human being should do this!! heartless!!!

Sophia

Stop jt

Jasper

Stop it now

Jacqueline Pijnenburg

Stop killing those beautyful animals!!!

Anonymous

We must not agree these 'business' braking the health of people. For that reason it's unnecessary to kill those dolphins and let them suffer. We have knowledge of the cruel way they die.

Lucia

Laten we liever voor de wereld zijn. Wees bewust.

Geert Willems

Stop murdering the Dolfins, stop murdering our Future. 私たちの未来のためにイルカを殺すのはやめてください

Roxanne

I love dolphins soo much. Stop these stupid crazy people.

Marina Vandormael

Dolfin killers are murderers.

Angélique potgieter

Stop ti kill dauphin !!!

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наташа
11 years ago

я против жестокого и нечеловечного отношения к этим высокоразвитым животным !