Posted on 05/18/2023 12:55:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
Orcas have mainly directed their efforts at sailboats, making a beeline for the rudder. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Orcas have attacked and sunk a third boat off the Iberian coast of Europe, and experts now believe the behavior is being copied by the rest of the population.
Three orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, struck the yacht on the night of May 4 in the Strait of Gibraltar, off the coast of Spain, and pierced the rudder. "There were two smaller and one larger orca," skipper Werner Schaufelberger told the German publication Yacht(opens in new tab). "The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the ship with full force from the side."
Schaufelberger said he saw the smaller orcas imitate the larger one. "The two little orcas observed the bigger one's technique and, with a slight run-up, they too slammed into the boat." Spanish coast guards rescued the crew and towed the boat to Barbate, but it sank at the port entrance.
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They needed a bigger boat.
What a gas! You gotta come and see
Crows. Crows are the spies. Geese and Seagulls will be the shock troops.
Orcas are upset at being labeled “killer whales” by ignorant humans.
Search for “high anxiety bird scene” and you can see it on YouTube.
Okay, do you have a citation of a fatality by an Orca attacking a human (not a boat) in the wild?
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Why ?
So you can move another goal post
and add a
“dwarf human with one green eye, one blue eye and half a left foot with freak/sicko for pronouns “ ?
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Typical.
Stupid question. Why wouldn't they? They're intelligent creatures, and there might be some tasty snackage onboard. It's just taken this long to work out the how of it.
We know the KWs off the SoCal coast are teaching their little crumbsnatchers the trick of knocking out great white sharks by flipping them on their back (so then then can munch on them at leisure), so why wouldn't pursue any activity that will benefit their next generation?
Call me Ishmael.
Uh, billy boy gates. Hello!
Wolves, cougars and bears are far more likely to kill humans. Outside of captivity, there is no record.
I noticed you didn't mention sharks. Sharks will attack humans, even though the number of shark fatalities is pretty low.
Rudders just really upset orcas.
Orcnato will blow shark week out of the water. Once they have air supremacy there is nothing to stop them.
“Teaching Others to Do the Same”
How do they do it? Pod-casts!
In that Sea Hunt they did.
killer whale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBLp7aCGKA&list=ELntQUnWvpAdXzhdt8KaDSFg&index=11
Obviously global warming, er, I mean, climate change.
Hull of large enough sailboats (24 plus feet at waterline) may have an appearance of being the body of a whale - from the water depth perspective.
Some rudders may appear to be similar to the whale fluke(s).
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