Is it possible that the Associated Press has no knowledge of Animal Planet’s outstanding reality series Whale Wars , which documents the Southern Ocean battles between Sea Shepherd conservationists and Japanese whalers? It certainly seems like that, because in a story about Sea Shepherd finding the whaling fleet —before they were able to start whaling—the AP’s Kristen Gelineau writes, “Every year, Japan and Sea Shepherd make claims of aggression against each other, but the accounts are generally impossible to verify.” Impossible to verify? The series, which is not mentioned at all in the article, makes it very possible to see exactly what happens during many of those confrontations. Producers Lizard Trading Co. haven’t been able to get whalers to agree to allow cameras on board their ships, so the perspective is limited to what the cameras capture aboard the Sea Shepard ships and helicopter, but with, for example, the collision with the Ady Gil , the footage made it very clear what ha...