that or every human killed by a wild orca was recorded as a generic died at sea
Yeah, was going to say, no wild orca has ever been caught killing a human being.
it's one of those predictions that's shaky enough that I don't want to be the one to test it
not like we find them all the time. Usually don't find them in time to really autopsy given that everything in the water wants to eat them.
I love our oceanic murderpandas, but this scares the shit out of me. Hope the seal made it out of that alive and in one piece, seeing these puppy eyes in that situation is just gutwrenching.
Geez. That takes a heart of stone.
Its like killing a dog by pushing it into the highway
what the fuck. She's just a worker who is stressed out and should have told her boss to fuck off.
As soon as I spotted the first orca approaching I'd go "nope nope nope nope fuck this shit not getting my boat flipped today nope nope nope nope" and move away.
I know it's illegal, but I doubt the seal would snitch
I know it’s illegal, but I doubt the seal would snitch
Shows what you know. Seals are notorious gossips.
Gotta drag totally irrelevant things in when annoyed at someone's actions.
CHUD life
You’re a seal. Do you
a) Hop back into the water to the pod of massive, murderous apex predators who have been hunting you specifically for the past hour or do you
b) stay with the 65 kg human who has displayed nothing but irritation ever since you stepped on her boat but now she’s walking towards you oh god oh no better jump to the literal killer whales
They used to go pretty much exclusively for whales. But then commercial whaling killed so many whales that orcas had to switch to other food sources.
It seems to be a mayo-specific thing where they think lions or orcas or etc don't kill people because they saw a video of one raised by humans in a zoo once
Not sure if you're joking, but the world's only recorded orca attack was from one that had been imprisoned in a water park. Famously, there's never been a record of an Orca in the wild attacking a person. More people have been raped by dolphins.
Famously, there’s never been a record of an Orca in the wild attacking a person
Probably has everything to do with habitat ranges, and nothing to do with orcas "magically loving humanity"
absolutely, it's actually pretty weird to be honest. I've read that in response to depleted fish stocks, Orcas in some areas have started predating recovering Sea Otter populations, which hitherto have been avoided. You'd imagine that an Orca would rather sneak a person, perhaps a fat child, rather than downing something that is mostly oily hair, but we can only speculate on the inner workings of the Cetacean mind.
I think they recognize that it's dangerous. Cus otherwise you'd still see cases of them killing humans for the fun of it like they do occasionally in the wild with other animals they don't eat. If they find something they can kill by won't eat they often will kill it and use it as a toy until they get bored.
But never with humans, not a once even in oral legends from all around the world there's still never been a known case. IMO I think they recognize that we're dangerous and not tasty. They certainly understand the idea of "don't piss off this one animal or it's friends will fuck us up" simply because they do that with each other all the time. If the larger pod finds a small orca from a smaller pod they'll harass the shit out of it many times. But the smaller pod won't do that to a lone orca from the larger pod (usually, sometimes they still do), cus they don't want to start a turf war essentially. I think that's what they're likely doing with us, treating us like the bigger pod that just isn't worth the effort of the fight.
I'm sure they're aware that we are friends with the giant metal things that are like 100x larger than them and they don't want to piss those things off.
That doesn't explain the historical aspect though.
it's pretty clear they've been avoiding us since long before modern fishing, it's likely what I said that they see us as competitors who aren't worth the fight
probably we just dont have enough blubber on us for them to be interested
maybe a particularly large human would interest them
I wonder if they could determine the body composition of a submerged person through echolocation alone.
nothing to do with orcas “magically loving humanity”
did some one claim that, or did you infer it? It's probably not anything related to habitat ranges, for what it's worth. Orcas have a huge range, and they're not really pelagic, they like coastal areas much like people do. this video is clearly from the PNW, where people have been living for thousands of years, primarily from managing these very same waters.
Perhaps Orcas find us disgusting or unpalatable, much like great whites seem not to like the taste of people. Regardless, there's never been a recorded attack of a person by a wild Orca.
Humans also tend to reek of industrial society, like oils, perfumes, cotton, rubber, treated leather, etc.
Imagine if you went to take a bite of your chicken and it tasted like shampoo and denim.
They probably don't like how we have so many bones. Thanks Mr skeltal
So you're saying we're the zucchini of Killer Whale cuisine. ..
did some one claim that, or did you infer it?
people routinely claim that lmao
This is really stupid man....
They've never attacked a human unprovoked. It's a well known thing and has always been weird. It's becoming clear in the last 50 years that they're likely either know we're not worth the effort (too boney) or even more likely they know we are too dangerous to fuck with.
recorded cases do all the work in rehabilitating sea-borne predators. literally thousands of people go missing at sea each year, and an unknown proportion are predated & or cleaned up by fish & sea creatures.
They are killer whales. Do you know any people so bad they need to be named after a crime?
The Norwegian name for them is "Spekkhogger" which basically translates to "blubber chopper" lmao
well I bet an orca can really move if it wants to. also if they don't kill that seal they'll either kill another or starve to death
yeah I fully get that but you also have to think about you're personal safety, it's like how a human is much more likely to drown trying to rescue a dog from drowning than a dog is to drown
If that was me I probably would've panicked and fed them the fucker, sorry but I'm not going down for a seal, no matter how cute
There's a second video she took down of pushing the sea lion off the boat and then illegally starting up the motor to get away.
if you think that boat/raft can accelerate faster than a killer whale you have another thing coming
That sea lion's could easily be 160 - 180 pounds and might drag you with it.
That wave thing or that tipping the ice over thing are both behaviors they have to learn as kids, like all of their many hunting methods. If that specific orca population doesn't usually hunt seals resting on ice, they won't know how to do it. Adult orcas have a really hard time adapting to a new feeding strategy. They may figure something out eventually, but that's not something they pull off in a couple of minutes, it takes so long they're at serious risk of starvation when their normal food source disappears. Maybe neuroplasticity plays a role here, just as humans learn new languages much easier when they're kids.
Oh shit that's a blast from the past, remember seeing this like 30 years ago
I caught it on a late-night showing on AMC when I was up late banging out a paper for high school
Pretty sure I got a solid B and recurring nightmares about killer whales.
Yeah, it starts off pretty gruesomely and then it's just watching a puppet kill other puppets
