[AnotherUnixGeek]

Only a matter of time. Killer whales kill blue whales and other baleen whales by diving into their mouths to eat their tongues, they deliberately chase and kill dolphins for fun, they eat great white sharks alive, tipping them over to chew their livers out. They’re basically the a***holes of the sea. You knew sooner or later they’d start wondering what we taste like.

[jagusafr]

There’s a NatGeo documentary that shows orcas coordinating to create cavitation that breaks apart the ice flow a harbor seal has climbed onto to avoid them. Scary smart critters.

[rlmorel]

I see it a bit differently...:)

Check out this video (full link below)

LINK: Penguin chased by a pack of Orcas saves itself from certain death

In this video, a penguin is being chased by a pack of Orcas. This spunky little guy manages to save himself by jumping into a boat (an inflatable boat!) full of tourists!

This Penguin became my instant hero!

After he went under the boat and leaped into it from the opposite side to the astonishment of the watching humans, instead of cowering in fear on the bottom of the boat, he leaps up onto the slick side and parades in front of the disappointed orcas, who look at him sideways before swimming away in defeat!

This was how I envisioned the Penguin:

Now, with no effort at all, the Orcas, who are CLEARLY not afraid of the humans in the boat, could have just tipped the raft and had their meal. But they didn't. People may say I am anthropomorphizing those orcas, and I plead guilty, but I think they are intelligent enough to know that mangling or eating humans is not worth the problems it would bring down on them.

I believe they do a calculus, and decide to cut their losses and look for another meal. I really do think they are intelligent enough to understand that.