Wild Orcas Offer Food to Humans, Leaving Scientists Puzzled

Greek Reporter ^ | July 4, 2025 | Nisha Zahid

[piasa]

My cat likes to bring me rodents...drops the darn things-alive and kicking- right at my feet. Then she gets all disgusted and gives me the stink eye when I can’t catch it as it races off.

[Dr. Franklin]

Dogs are known to regurgitate food for others. I think it’s a mating ritual.

[GOPJ]

Lots of sea creatures caught in nets etc are saved by humans. This could be a recognition of ‘sameness’...

[tumblindice]

Stacy Abrams has been observed doing this at Golden Corral.

[packagingguy]

My mother’s cat would present little offerings on the back steps, perfectly arranged in a little row of dead bodies of mice.

[Bob434]

Maybe they aren’t sharing but rather showing the scientists what will happen to them if they don’t stop messing with them

[Bullish]

Maybe some Orca’s are trying to get some action with a dingy?

[M Kehoe]

My cats used to do that all the time.

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[FlingWingFlyer]

When I was living in Alaska, I had one offer to sell me some Girl Scout cookies.

[SunkenCiv]

Something that I’m curious about though — “Wild Orcas” — are there tame ones? 🤔

[SunkenCiv]

Richard Kiel... was also in Happy Gilmore, and I think he played “Jaws” in one of the Bond movies...

[TLI]

They are just checking on which bait works the best...

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[Pocketdoor]

That’s not food, that’s bait.

[Nachoman]

This is nice. After they sink your boat, they’ll bring something to eat to your life raft.

[Uversabound]

Hold on, Fetterman?❤️

[RitchieAprile]

Sea World had tame ones..

[PCPOET7]

my thought is that over the years divers have remove hooks and netting that the orcasa have been tangled up in....they communicate with each other’s I would not be surprised if it turned out they were trying to communicate with humans in a substantive way.....think of how humanity has been trying find and communicate with aliens. the orca’s behavior is akin to the same human behavior. We are the alien encounter.

[skr]

The whales were testing us. Not sure if we passed or failed.

[Palio di Siena]

When Stacy goes to the beach - people try to push her back into the water

[ponygirl]

My semiferal cat that lived on my patio would bring me birds, sometimes even big, fat street pigeons, lizards, huge locust/grasshopper things, and big moths. One day I was having lunch out on the patio when she showed up and dropped a live lizard on my foot, which ran up my leg.

There was. much screaming and thrashing about, salad went everywhere.

You should have seen the look of disdain she gave me.

Every morning after we had a big thunderstorm, she would show up with a bird. I have no idea what the connection was, but without fail, a storm = bird on the patio and she would be meeping at me through the sliding glass door to come out and look at it at 3 am.

One morning I was able to save a baby mourning dove from her and had to drive it 30 minutes to a wildlife rehab.