Messofanego
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Dumbasses, the lot of people who watched Finding Nemo and for some reason took the exact opposite message from the movie to just grab clownfish from the ocean and make them their pets in a home aquarium without sea anemone and more likely to die quicker.
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Biologists and conservationists are worried Finding Dory might do the same thing for the royal blue tang.
So they've set up the "Million Kisses For Nemo" campaign (#fishkissfornemo) in hopes that Ellen Degeneres (who voices Dory) gets word of it and raises awareness.
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Apparently, 101 Dalmatians caused a 300% increase in dalmatians being dropped at shelters which became overwhelming and made homeless after buyer's remorse.
There's Harry Potter fans fucking with owls by dumping them cause hey some animals aren't the easiest to care for once you're past the novelty. And of course, TMNT fans buying turtles leading to increased illegal smuggling of turtles because that's 90% of how turtles get into pet stores.
Parents, come on. Kids, come on. Adults, come on. Do your research! Think ahead before you wreck animals' lives, which is the exact opposite of these movies' messages.
Washington Post: Finding Nemo wasnt so entertaining for real clownfish. Now conservationists worry about Finding Dory.
Finding the message of many films can be challenging, but the moral of Finding Nemo seems pretty straightforward: Leave fish in the ocean, where they belong. In the childrens movie, the father of a young clownfish treks across the Pacific looking for his son, who has been fished out of the deep blue and dumped into an aquarium in a dentists office. The movie ends spoiler alert with young Nemo finding his way out of the glass prison and back to his home.
Pretty simple, right? The movie did well, too, making $936.7 million worldwide at the box office, according to IMBb. And with the success, sales of clownfish, which are often taken from the ocean, rose by as much as 40 percent, according to Hakai magazine.
Thats right. Fans were so taken with the films titular character, they decided to find their own Nemo(s).
I think it was a big surprise, because the message from the film was a very good one about conservation, Karen Burke da Silva, associate professor in biodiversity and conservation at Flinders University in South Australia, told The Washington Post in a phone interview early Wednesday morning. It was about not taking Nemo out of the sea, but the opposite happened.
Pretty simple, right? The movie did well, too, making $936.7 million worldwide at the box office, according to IMBb. And with the success, sales of clownfish, which are often taken from the ocean, rose by as much as 40 percent, according to Hakai magazine.
Thats right. Fans were so taken with the films titular character, they decided to find their own Nemo(s).
I think it was a big surprise, because the message from the film was a very good one about conservation, Karen Burke da Silva, associate professor in biodiversity and conservation at Flinders University in South Australia, told The Washington Post in a phone interview early Wednesday morning. It was about not taking Nemo out of the sea, but the opposite happened.
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According to the Saving Nemo Conservation Fund, which da Silva helped found, more than 1 million clownfish are taken from reefs for home aquariums each year. Da Silva told The Post that more than 400,000 are shipped into the United States.
America is the biggest country in the world that purchases these tropical fish, da Silva said, and its an increasing problem. Clownfish have gone locally extinct in the Philippines, parts of Thailand, parts of Sri Lanka.
The fund helps breed the species in captivity, but trying to introduce new clownfish into the wild isnt easy. As anyone familiar with Finding Nemo might already know, they rely on a symbiotic relationship with stinging sea anemone. The fish live in their toxic tendrils, which keeps predators away. But clownfish who are bred in captivity havent acclimated to those toxins, and they tend to avoid sea anemone when released back into the oceans. Again, as anyone who has seen the movie might remember, when the fish leave those anemone, theyre at a much greater risk.
America is the biggest country in the world that purchases these tropical fish, da Silva said, and its an increasing problem. Clownfish have gone locally extinct in the Philippines, parts of Thailand, parts of Sri Lanka.
The fund helps breed the species in captivity, but trying to introduce new clownfish into the wild isnt easy. As anyone familiar with Finding Nemo might already know, they rely on a symbiotic relationship with stinging sea anemone. The fish live in their toxic tendrils, which keeps predators away. But clownfish who are bred in captivity havent acclimated to those toxins, and they tend to avoid sea anemone when released back into the oceans. Again, as anyone who has seen the movie might remember, when the fish leave those anemone, theyre at a much greater risk.
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Overfishing due to pet demand, along with rising ocean temperatures and ocean acidification, has all led to the Center for Biological Diversity to petition the National Marine Fisheries Service to put clownfish on the Endangered Species List, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2012.
Biologists and conservationists are worried Finding Dory might do the same thing for the royal blue tang.
The bigger concern is now with the royal blue tang, which is the species that Dory is, because 100 percent of the fish are being taken from the wild, da Silva told The Post.
At the moment, she said there are about 300,000 blue tang imported into the United States each year, and she wouldnt be surprised if that number has risen simply based off the new movies ubiquitous promotion.
At the moment, she said there are about 300,000 blue tang imported into the United States each year, and she wouldnt be surprised if that number has risen simply based off the new movies ubiquitous promotion.
So they've set up the "Million Kisses For Nemo" campaign (#fishkissfornemo) in hopes that Ellen Degeneres (who voices Dory) gets word of it and raises awareness.
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Apparently, 101 Dalmatians caused a 300% increase in dalmatians being dropped at shelters which became overwhelming and made homeless after buyer's remorse.
There's Harry Potter fans fucking with owls by dumping them cause hey some animals aren't the easiest to care for once you're past the novelty. And of course, TMNT fans buying turtles leading to increased illegal smuggling of turtles because that's 90% of how turtles get into pet stores.
Parents, come on. Kids, come on. Adults, come on. Do your research! Think ahead before you wreck animals' lives, which is the exact opposite of these movies' messages.
