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To: C19fan
Here's the problem: Orcas (killer whales) are among THE most intelligent mammals on Earth outside of humans. As such, they figured out really fast how to get essentially a free meal. And since Orca pods can communicate with other pods over long distances, it won't be long before when the fishermen go out to catch halibut for the first time during the fishing season the Orcas are waiting out there already.
10 posted on 06/20/2017 1:33:16 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Because the orcas have marked it on their calendars.

Some kind of shielding fence might be the only possibility. Big enough mesh to let the halibut through. Small enough to shut out the orcas.


12 posted on 06/20/2017 1:35:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RayChuang88; HiTech RedNeck
One of my favorite anecdotes I read about intelligent animals involved crows.

There was a hunter who lived on a large parcel of land, and every year when deer hunting season opened, he would go out the door, trudge into the woods behind his house, and bag a deer.

He noticed that, for some reason, on the exact day deer hunting season began, crows would just appear outside his house in the trees. The trees would be barren, but on that day, they would appear in flocks even before he left his house. As he gutted his deer, the crows would swarm it and feast on the gut pack.

This really puzzled him, as if they somehow knew exactly what date it was.

He figured out after a while that the crows were watching him through his windows in the days leading up to the season...bringing his gun out, cleaning and preparing it, getting all his gear together. And it somehow got communicated to all the other crows in the area that deer hunting day was here.

As for orcas...this video really highlights how smart they are. In this video, a penguin is being pursued by a pack of orcas who patiently try to cut it off, bit by bit, even going under the raft, until the penguin leaps out of the water with the orcas hot on his tail, and takes refuge inside their zodiac. The penguin then placidly walks on the edge, as the Orcas, only a few feet away looking at him, and he nearly seems to be taunting them!


Link to Youtube Video: Penguin escapes Orcas by leaping into a zodiac!

What I found interesting is that those orcas could have easily made short business of those boats, but it is almost as if they knew that if they began messing with humans...their days would be numbered, so they just swam away to look for other prey!

17 posted on 06/20/2017 1:54:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals are in a state of constant cognitive dissonance, which explains their mental instability.)
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To: RayChuang88

Didn’t an Orca make a movie? I wonder if he gets residuals?
If not, he wasn’t too smart....


24 posted on 06/20/2017 3:06:32 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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