THIS MEANS WAR!!!
/SARC
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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Maybe they are making a statement about the inherent lack of seaworthiness of the spade rudder.
They’re not whales, they’re dolphins. Look it up. Killer dolphins.
Wind turbines over water...
Wind turbines over water... or they just hate the corrupt ‘elites’ like the rest of us.
This didn’t work out well for Bo Derek in 1977.
Maybe they’ll save us from the globalists.
I came here to say the same thing; Snacks.
You’re wrong about a lot.
Brancheau and Alexis Martínez are the two SeaWorld trainers killed by an orca. Brancheau was the third fatality associated with Tilikum and the fourth by a ...
Survive the savage sea
was a book about a family sunk by an orca.
Yes, orcas kill humans, as do wolves, cougars and bears .
Watermelons lie about that.
Just last week we had a cougar wandering around redding.
Well, not yet...
“Just last week we had a cougar wandering around redding.”
My wife and I spotted a cougar at the bar the other night.
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...and hamsters turn on frequently,
what a gas!
I know of four fatalities in captivity, and three of them were by Tilikum.
Yes. And to get to the chewy center, the outer shell has to be cracked.
Common thread for all these trouble makers, mental illness. “Tilikum is basically psychotic,” the marine biologist Ken Balcomb told Outside Online in 2010. “He has been maintained in a situation where I think he is psychologically unrecoverable in terms of being a wild whale.”Mar 9, 2016
THIS MEANS WAR!!!
/SARC
Once you’ve been pounced on by a claws out Cougar, nothing else compares. Limp home and dress your wounds.
Indeed. We felt sorry for the poor thing so we brought it home.
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Unfortunately no...................
Climate Change is causing it./..
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