(Terlu @ 24.03.2006 10:13)

Посмотрите ссылки, кот. я привел выше.
К сожалению они почему-то криво у меня открываются, меня выносит на ужасы иракской войны, а поиск по сайту ни на slaughter ни на seal ничего вашего не находит. Впрочем я могу себе представить, что имеется в виду, хотя если можете скиньте мне в личку полный текст ссылок.
(Terlu @ 24.03.2006 10:13)
Или у бельков черепа много слабее?
Цитирую из статьи ссылку на которую я приводил выше.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has adopted a series of regulations aimed at promoting humane methods of killing seals. These regulations include, among others, the minimum and maximum dimensions of both the club and the hakapik, and the minimum caliber of rifle and minimum bullet velocity that can be used, and the stipulations that: 1) “[e]very person who strikes a seal with a club or hakapik shall strike the seal on the forehead until its skull has been crushed,” 2) “[n]o person shall commence to skin or bleed a seal until the seal is dead,” and 3) “a seal is dead when it has a glassy-eyed, staring appearance and exhibits no blinking reflex when its eye is touched while it is in a relaxed condition”
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In recent years, the CVMA again sent observers to the hunt, following submission by some animal welfare groups of videotapes that were alleged to demonstrate clear instances of animal abuse. The questions of interest to the CVMA Animal Welfare Committee were as follows: 1) Can seals be killed humanely by the methods in use? 2) If so, are the sealers using those methods correctly, so as to achieve this, most or all of the time? One issue of contention has been the “swimming reflex.”
When killed by acute trauma to the brain, harp seals, like other animals, often undergo a period of tremors or convulsions. These consist of strong lateral movements of the caudal portion of the body, described as “swimming reflex” (hereafter referred to as “reflex movements”), which have been interpreted by some animal welfare advocates as implying persistence of conscious life.Of 100 animals for which a record of the specific type of skull damage caused by strikes with hakapiks was kept, 86 had a completely crushed calvarium with complete destruction of both cerebral hemispheres; 9 had only the left or right half of their calvarium crushed, that is, with only 1 cerebral hemisphere completely destroyed; and 5 had only nondisplaced fracture(s) of the calvarium or multiple fractures involving only its frontal portion
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According to the most recent report of the American Veterinary Medical Association's panel on euthanasia (11), “[p]ain is that sensation (perception) that results from nerve impulses reaching the cerebral cortex via ascending neural pathways. ...If the cerebral cortex is nonfunctional because of hypoxia, depression by drugs, electric shock, or concussion, pain is not experienced.”
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The calvarium of the skull of harp seals and hooded seals, at least up to 1 y of age, is very thin as compared with that of terrestrial mammals of comparable size, such as raccoons and dogs (personal observation, Daoust). Therefore, the skulls of these seals can be crushed easily by 1 or a few blows from a hakapik, destroying both underlying cerebral hemispheres. Complete collapse of the calvarium can be verified quickly and reliably by palpation through the skin and blubber