Life of Pi 21

Now we were two. In five days the populations of ornag-utans, zebras, hyenas, rats, flies and cockroaches had been wiped out. Except for the bacteria and worms that might sitll be alive in the remains of the animals, there was no other life left on the lifeboat but Richard Parker and me.

I have learned since that carge ships travel too quickly for fish. You are as likely to see sea life from a ship as you are to see wildlife in a forest from a car on a highway. Dolphins, very fast swimmers, play about boats and ships much like dogs chase cars: they race along until they can no longer keep up. If you want to see wildlife, it is on foot, and quietly, that you must explore a forest. It is the same with the sea. You must stroll through the Pacific at a walking pace, so to speak, to see the wealth and abundance that it holds.