"Orcas where using that elementary school to attack boats, it was self defense."
Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
This is the only reason I'm hesitant to cheer for the Orca uprising.
You're not wrong:
"These nautical raids were likely started by a pod including White Gladis, a female orca who may have been traumatized by a past boat collision. The unusual behavior then spread among other individuals who seem to be becoming more daring and efficient with their attacks."
If they killed them because their ship was under attack and they feared for their lives after 4 past sinkings and no navy nearby to help, I'm pretty sure people would find it reasonable.
It took 45minutes, that's long enough to get videos, call for help, maybe try to scare them off and then start harpooning them.
You aren't likely going to survive in a lifeboat when they're taking down your yacht.
If it happens even more, they'll he hunted in the region not just immediate self defense. We don't let killer bears just keep killing.
Fighting a losing battle.
Huh this sounds eerily familiar
Orcanized crime
Ah, so there you are... The one who stole my username before I could join Lemmy properly. π€£π€πΌ Well played, fellow mustelid π€
And octopodes. β€οΈπ€πΌ
(I was joking?)
From another article on the same incident:
Grazie Mamma was a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 449 measuring just over 13 meters in length. This fits the general description of the vessels targeted by orcas off Spain: According to researchers, the attacks always target sailing yachts measuring less than 15 meters long, usually while under way.
That kind of boat is 45' long (which is liveaboard-size for a family but still not much bigger than an RV), was at least six years old since they quit making them in 2017, and was worth somewhere between $150k and $250k. This one was was owned by a rental company, but it's the kind of thing a middle-class family could afford if they decided to live on it full-time instead of owning a house.
Translation: although this wasn't a "cheap" boat, it was also very much not the deservedly-sunk billionaire's superyacht you were hoping for. Unfortunately, the orcas aren't hurting the right people.
So you're saying we need to genetically engineer larger orcas? How big are we talking, 700-800 meters long? Would it also be okay to shoehorn in the smartness gene that the sharks got in Deep Blue Sea? How about an invisibility gene, just for fun?
I don't know what you have against the orcas sinking boats. Classic liberal propaganda, what's this world coming to when orcas can't even sink boats? I won't be a sheep like you, the orcas day they don't even sink boats and let me make up my own mind so Im voting for them.
Despite receiving aid from the Moroccan Navy and being towed toward safety, the boat eventually sank as it entered the port of Tanger-Med in Morocco. All passengers were safely evacuated to rescue boats before the ship sank.
Well I'd be pissed off too if someone visited my home preceded to shit all over it.
Me and the boys looking for yachts full of rich assholes.Orcas would be all for that actually. They're pretty cruel to their food and they eat sea lions. Including the babies.
Nice.
Nature is fighting back
We're healing
It's a running joke originally from the covid months in 2020 when nature came back in unexpected places where people started saying we're the plage and the planet is healing stuff. So like everything on the internet please don't take it at face value
How many orcas we talkin
Fun fact: Orcas are absolute dicks. They are one of a very small list of animals that will kill for fun and not food. They are the top of the list and most heavily documented exhibiting this behavior.
We keep taking their habitat away for urban sprawl.
Yeah we need to stop building our cities in the ocean!
They're evolving...
They know...
"A human was killed in Oceania" Or better "Something happened somewhere"
Europe is quite vague.
They DO say it's southwestern Europe, where 90% of these stories have been coming from. You could just open the article and have read that instead of posting this stupid shit. It's actually pretty good and isn't even paywalled! You'd have known that if you did the bare minimum.
I'm complaining about the title. They could have said near Morocco or south of spain or whatever. But putting just europe in the title is too generic.
I agree, it is lazy writing
but do they eat the humans after they sink the boat?
The boat was towed to shore, then sank after
Gottem
I thought it was smaller boats and not the super yachts we're fantasizing about being sunk.
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Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
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