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late AO-4 and currently-alive Angel by Dark-Little-Darkling

late AO-4 and currently-alive Angel

Dark-Little-Darkling

SAI's selection tool went crappy on me, maybe 'cause I made about 25 or more linework layers for this before merging 'em, and now whether I make the lines with linework layers or normal layers, it keeps ending up looking like you used MS paint's bucket fill tool thing, and it's very time-consuming and annoying to carefully try to make it look better... Well, I suppose I didn't have to make the background black, but I felt like it, in an attempt to make a dark mood. Also, their markings probably aren't exactly how they should look, but hopefully close enough...

AO-4 (I think that's what she was called), the dolphin with an extra pair of fins (obviously, an extremely rare mutation, causing much news all over about "a dolphin with legs" even though this dolphin didn't actually have legs, just these small pectoral-fin-like things where the legs of dolphin ancestors would have been), was captured by fishermen in 2006 while many of her family and friends were probably butchered. Back then she was about 5 years old (probably still a juvenile, she could only have just reached sexual maturity or might not even have reached it yet or for years!), and she was held captive in the Taiji whale museum until she died in 2013, 6 1/2 years later. 11 1/2 is obviously a hell of a lot younger than a bottlenose dolphin should be able to live. Even if she was a freak of nature and might not have lived long in the wild either,... well, what an awful life this poor thing did end up being forced to live... she most likely would have been happier in the wild than in a place like that, and she might have even gotten to live longer...

And now, in January this year, poor little albino calf Angel has been captured... I'm sure most, if not all, cetacean lovers on this site must already know about it, so I won't ramble any more... but a few more words... I think these two dolphins are much like each other, as well as, of course, much like all other dolphins, really, inside (metaphorically at least), beneath their unusual appearances... no dolphins deserve this... well, no animals deserve this, really... that's my two cents, anyway...

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