# Bet you wish YOUR river had one of these...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 4, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bet-you-wish-your-river-had-one-of-these/267425 "2004-10-04T05:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bet-you-wish-your-river-had-one-of-these/267425/1 "2004-10-04T05:23:50Z")

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> **[Canada's whale of a dilemma](https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1004/p09s01-coop.html)**
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> It is said that your right to swing your arm ends where your arm meets someone else's nose. And, I might add, your right to believe your late relat

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> Luna, now five, is a Southern Resident killer whale (an endangered species) who, in July of 2001, showed up in Nootka Sound, off Vancouver Island. The youngster had lost contact with his pod, or family unit, and wandered until he found a food source…
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> …He traveled further inland toward Gold River, where he became famous. By the summer of 2003, tourists were traveling to Gold River to see him, touch him, and sadly, to abuse him…
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> …Meanwhile, the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations people, a native Canadian tribe, raised concerns about moving Luna, whom they call Tsuux-iit. Their late chief had said he would return in the form of a whale. Shortly after his death, Luna appeared.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bet-you-wish-your-river-had-one-of-these/267425/2 "2004-10-04T16:04:57Z")

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[wet blanket on]

No, actually, I don’t, because Luna is far too dependent on humans now to ever be successfully re-introduced into the wild–all attempts to do so, so far, have failed. They’ll have to take her (him?) into captivity again. It’s kind of sad ☹

[/wet blanket off]

Killer whale? In Lake Ontario? Surely you jest. 😃