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Are orcas the biggest jerks in the ocean?
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:44 pm
I saw a video the other day of one swimming under a manta ray, and once passing he slapped the ray for no reason resulting in its death. I’ve seen videos of Orcas killing seals and, instead of eating them, just flipping them up in the air right in front of all the other seals on the beach. They’ve killed trainers before by dragging them underwater and holding their until drowning. Freewillie was propaganda.
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Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:44 pm to Demonbengal
Ever since it ran out of you, yeah.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:45 pm to Demonbengal
Jellyfish
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:45 pm to Demonbengal
The don't call them cuddly whales for nothing
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:46 pm to Demonbengal
I saw a group kill a baby grey whale as giant mommy grey wheel tried to stop it
I think just want to it's tongue call it a day
Real douche bags
I think just want to it's tongue call it a day
Real douche bags
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:48 pm to Demonbengal
I said they are dickheads, dickheads. We need to start fishing them and eating them just to put them back in their place. That's for all the baby seals they frick with like assholes. TPOS
This post was edited on 5/17/23 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 5/17/23 at 10:52 pm to Demonbengal
The fact that they had everyone feeling sorry for them after that load of crap “documentary” blackfish is ridiculous.
This post was edited on 5/17/23 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:02 pm to Adam Banks
They are really giant dolphins and super smart and the actual kings of the ocean. (Great Whites are scared to death of them) They have never attacked or messed with any person in the wild.
They do get bored and kill shite just for fun which is true. But from the top of the food chain on land to top of food chain in the Ocean there should nd nothing but respect.
Do not frick with Orcas
They do get bored and kill shite just for fun which is true. But from the top of the food chain on land to top of food chain in the Ocean there should nd nothing but respect.
Do not frick with Orcas
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:07 pm to Demonbengal
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:08 pm to Demonbengal
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killed trainers before by dragging them underwater and holding their until drowning
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slapped the ray for no reason resulting in its death
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Orcas killing seals
Orcas, also known as killer whales for a reason
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:22 pm to Adam Banks
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The fact that they had everyone feeling sorry for them after that load of crap “documentary” blackfish is ridiculous.
fricking "Free Willy" was an inside job
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:22 pm to Demonbengal
I bet the sea monster that former poster saw was a bigger jerk.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:23 pm to Demonbengal
Orcas are tip top of the food chain in the ocean. It’s been documented that great white sharks will clear out of an area if orcas show up.
What I find most interesting is they don’t seem to attack humans in the wild. Maybe they just don’t see us as food…but also maybe they know it’s better not to frick with the only other animal that can kill them. I like to think it’s the latter
What I find most interesting is they don’t seem to attack humans in the wild. Maybe they just don’t see us as food…but also maybe they know it’s better not to frick with the only other animal that can kill them. I like to think it’s the latter
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:25 pm to DeathValley85
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What I find most interesting is they don’t seem to attack humans in the wild. Maybe they just don’t see us as food…but also maybe they know it’s better not to frick with the only other animal that can kill them. I like to think it’s the latter
They're mammals so they have some intelligence.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:27 pm to bad93ex
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don’t seem to attack humans in the wild
Seems fishy.
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:31 pm to DeathValley85
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G?reg Blackburn, an experienced sailor from Leeds in the United Kingdom, felt the bumps to his vessel before he saw the apex ocean predator that caused them.
His crew ?were navigating the Strait of Gibraltar, near Tangier in Morocco on May 2, when something started slamming into the hull - repeatedly.
The Bavaria 46 was already being tossed around by "heavy weather" thanks to 25-30 knot winds and a rolling swell of two to three metres.
Then an encounter with some of the most intelligent animals on the planet started.
"We took a knock to the rudder, and at first I thought we had just rolled down a wave and got a bit of resistance," Blackburn said.
"Then we had a second one, which caused us to jump around, and then the third one we were trying to turn up into a wave and the rudder went 'no you're going the other way'.
"?At that point, we were like 'there's definitely something down there'.
"After that was when we got the first sighting of them."
Two large orcas, otherwise known as killer whales, were responsible for the ramming but Blackburn said four more would join in - causing extensive damage to the boat. ??
"Once the main pod turned up it looked like there was a matriarch with a calf," he said. ?
The Strait of Gibraltar has become infamous for orca "attacks", after hundreds of similar ramming incidents.
These encounters are said to have begun ?July 2020 and have resulted in the sinking of several boats.
Biologists hold different theories as to why orcas seem to be targeting the boats, suggesting it could be either territorial, defensive, or play behaviour.
Blackburn said the encounter didn't feel malicious.
"?You can see in one of the videos the matriarch coming up and attacking the rudder with calf at side of her, then she drops back and then the little calf gets in to have a go," he said.
"It was definitely some form of education, teaching going on."
LINKPosted on 5/17/23 at 11:52 pm to bad93ex
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They're mammals so they have some intelligence.
Some? They can literally speak to each other and have massive brains somewhat comparable to ours..
I’m always confused at how orca/dolphin/whale intelligence is vastly underestimated just because they live in water and we have no concept of that type of living
Posted on 5/17/23 at 11:54 pm to crotiger0307
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Some? They can literally speak to each other and have massive brains somewhat comparable to ours.. I’m always confused at how orca/dolphin/whale intelligence is vastly underestimated just because they live in water and we have no concept of that type of living
Looks like we found the orcafricker, baws!
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:00 am to Havoc
Dying orcas, whales, and dolphins beach themsevles to die peacefully breathing air, instead of sinking and drowning, and humans insist on pushing them back into the water.
Posted on 5/18/23 at 12:14 am to DeathValley85
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What I find most interesting is they don’t seem to attack humans in the wild.
if by don’t seem to, you mean literally zero times, you’d be correct
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