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
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