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Killer Whales Are Making Tools To Scratch Each Other’s Backs, And It’s Blowing Scientists’ Minds
Study Finds ^ | June 23, 2025 | Michael Weiss, Center for Whale Research

Posted on 06/23/2025 12:23:26 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 06/23/2025 12:23:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Dolphins chew on pufferfish and then spit them out. Marine biologists think they do it to get stoned. The pufferfish secrete a neurotoxin and apparently the dolphins get a buzz off of it.

CC


2 posted on 06/23/2025 12:30:33 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Pedisequus parasiticus es popularium!)
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Climate Change Puts Killer Whales At Risk

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not as bad as seismographing for off shore wind farms

3 posted on 06/23/2025 12:31:14 PM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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could be threatened by climate change

Because what else would you expect.

4 posted on 06/23/2025 12:31:59 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger

I live on high-bank waterfront on Whidbey Island, in Washington State. I have seen Orca whales come right up to the shore to scratch their backs on the rocky beach. Quite a sight to see!


5 posted on 06/23/2025 12:32:03 PM PDT by rexthecat
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I have the soundtrack nomination right here.

Scratch My Back by Slim Harpo. #1 on the R&B charts for two weeks in 1966.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x7NIqga8M&list=RD-5x7NIqga8M&start_radio=1


6 posted on 06/23/2025 12:35:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Sounds like a first date thing...


7 posted on 06/23/2025 12:44:01 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Article:

“Climate change poses another threat”

This could have been a decent article—but could not resist throwing in insane leftist propaganda.


8 posted on 06/23/2025 12:45:57 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s nothing.

My basset hound, Georgie, pushed a chair from the dining room, through the living room and into the kitchen so he could use it as a ladder to climb on the countertop to eat $12 worth of homemade bread I got from the farmer’s market.


9 posted on 06/23/2025 12:48:03 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Using tools is not unique to humans and not even to hominids.

All sorts of species make and use tools.


10 posted on 06/23/2025 12:49:11 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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Scientists’ shock at orcas’ kelp tool-making reveals their anthropocentric bias. Even corvids bend twigs into tools, and orcas, with larger brains and complex social structures, are far more cognitively advanced.

Most shocking is that these scientists are unaware of this bias, which hinders the scientific method and risks skewing their conclusions.


11 posted on 06/23/2025 12:50:17 PM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Call me when they create a tool box.


12 posted on 06/23/2025 12:54:01 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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13 posted on 06/23/2025 12:56:36 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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Killer Whales Are Making Tools To Scratch Each Other's Backs, And It's Blowing Scientists’ Minds

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which just goes to show...

..orcas are smarter than current day academics and “ scientists “.

soon the average fruit fly will be smarter than the regressive academics and “ scientists “

see what Godless reprobate secular humanists, marxism and DEI does to the brain ?

;-)

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14 posted on 06/23/2025 1:09:38 PM PDT by cuz1961
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In almost every documentary or nature article these days, all is very informative when, (as in documentaries) with about 10 minutes to go, there is mention of climate change or the human’s threat to the animal. As in this article, it never fails to happen.


15 posted on 06/23/2025 1:09:59 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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>> Because what else would you expect.

We’re all gonna be fried (or drowned) in 4.67 years... to heck with the allokelping whales. In fact, since our time is so short, I say let’s EAT those orcas! I have grilling tools and I know how to use ‘em for socializing!


16 posted on 06/23/2025 1:11:39 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: llevrok

I just ignore that stuff....................


17 posted on 06/23/2025 1:13:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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They don’t chew on them.

https://youtu.be/vwF2p626su4?feature=shared


18 posted on 06/23/2025 1:19:47 PM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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Um...it says right in the video that they chew on them!

CC


19 posted on 06/23/2025 1:27:32 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Pedisequus parasiticus es popularium!)
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“Um...it says right in the video that they chew on them!”

It says right in the video that they hold them gently in their mouth and rarely hurt them.

This is confirmed by the video feed. Nowhere are they seen chewing on them.


20 posted on 06/23/2025 1:31:49 PM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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