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To: ScubaDiver
That's a clever strategy for pods not to compete with one another while limiting the overall total population of apex predators. Probably produces a more stable equilibrium of the total number of orcas.

Wonder if the fishing boats mainly catch the fish these orcas eat?

22 posted on 04/13/2021 9:16:15 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Wonder if the fishing boats mainly catch the fish these orcas eat?

Orcas are smart. They’ll hunt as a team. There are videos of them rocking a small ice floe to dislodge a seal sitting on the floe.

I think they’ve figured out these boats are taking their fish and they’re pissed.


23 posted on 04/13/2021 9:26:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: pierrem15

That is an interesting question. I’d be curious too.


24 posted on 04/13/2021 9:26:59 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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