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
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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
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I wonder if they could determine the body composition of a submerged person through echolocation alone.
new way of measuring bmi just dropped
Someone call up BigJimbo's son Brunt
there's even cases of orcas actively rescuing humans.