The Island and Other Stories by Peter Watts

Author:Peter Watts
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Pawel Dembowski
Published: 2012-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

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To the untrained eye, it looks like rambunctious play. In fact, the cavorting and splashing and bellyflopping is a synchronized and complex behavior. Co-operative hunting, it's called. First reported from the Antarctic, when a pod of killer whales was seen creating a mini-tidal wave to wash a crabeater seal off an ice floe.

Definite sign of intelligence, that, the first mate's been told. He squints through his binoculars and the intermittent fog until the whales finish.

The first mate pulls open the wheelhouse hatch and climbs inside. The captain throws Dipnet into gear, singing: And they'll know we are sisters by our love, by our—

The mate picks up the tune and rummages in a locker, surfaces with a bottle of Crown Royal. "Good show today." He raises the bottle in salute.

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