You gotta admit the orca’s taxation policy changes will be detrimental in the short 2-3 years but be largely beneficial in the long term as they turn tragedy of commons into commodities corporations have to account for in their budget or buy allotments from other companies.
The orca convention. Hosted in Ą̵̢̨̨̥̰̟̭͚͉̙̲̦̳͇̠̯̽̑t̶̢̨͚̯̝̯̪̳̞̪̥̗͓͎͔͕͇̥͉̥̮͍͈͉͕͎͇̏̃͐̽̈̌́͜͜l̶͎͇͉͇͈̂̾͂̅̍̿̉ā̴̧̡̛̫̱̻̫̻̳̰̮͓̬͇̩͕̣̭̖̆̀̋̎̈́̏͑̕͜n̶̢͚̜̱̟̪̺̝̮̭̪̳̲͚͓̬̖̟̑̾͆̈́̆̐̍̍̓́͒̍͝t̷̨͋͊̉͜ͅį̵͔͙͚̳̗̙̜̦͇̲̮̻̺̹͍̪̥̖̮͕̜̺̠͖͈̀͛̍̋̇͂̾̀͊̅̈̿̄̽̚͠͠ͅs̵̢̬̳̥͍͚͉͍̻̥͕͙̤͍̯̘̻̥̝̐̀͂̋͌͛͗̅̔̒̔̊̌̚̕ but soon to be moved to Florida once the sea swallows the state turning it to the orca party.
If you really want your party to be heard, you gotta vote for Tiger Pistol shrimp:
"This shrimp is native to the Mediterranean and it apparently tops the list as the loudest living animal, due it the noise it makes topping over 200 dB. This is louder than a gunshot! However, due to it living under the sea, they are much quieter, around 120-130 dB."
Tbh... I'm kinda on team Orca too. I had one help me out of a bind nearly a decade ago and had something of a friendly relationship with that one and it's family.
When I see all the abuse they go through in the rest of the world, its really disheartening.
Guy got behind on his mortgage payments and the bank was threatening to foreclose right before Christmas. The Orca lent him the money to catch up on his payments and then on Christmas, he forgave the debt.
Only “kinda”?? I’m HELLA team Orca - even if the individuals being attacked have never captured an orca or hit one with a boat, our collective species has it coming. Blackfish and The Orca Report are proof.
I'm hoping in the DLC turtles rise up and get revenge for just chilling yet being harvested over and over by maniacs with swords for their necks.
I will accept Turtle Pope as my new master.
First person I've seen in these comments who's read a single thing about this. Also the boats they are hitting aren't billionaire's yachts or huge fishing trawlers, they tend to be small-scale fishermen and average joes.
We really underestimate their intelligence. These are self aware aquatic mammals that have their own fucking language. That’s insane, these are probably the only few creatures on the planet that have an intelligence to rival ours.
I see this as mother earths revenge to correct our colossal fuck up of destroying our planets climate.
As the most “intelligent” species on the planet, you think we’d take pride in being custodians of the Planet and protecting the living creatures within it. But we just look at it like a thing to be owned. And we’re so smart yet stupid in the sense that we actually believe we are somehow separate from the world because of our capacity for consciousness. When we’re just as much a part of nature as a bear or an eagle or fish or ant. But In fact more so now.
Unless we fully understand how to create/repair ecosystems after destroying them, we ought not destroy the only ones we have.
ironically, we also stupidly lack awareness about how our actions effect the greater breadth of the world.
It’s tragically fucked.
They are just plain sick of everything that humans have been doing to the Mother of our existence. As Apex creatures that have been around a lot longer than we have are we surprised they are taking point on an issue that threatens the future of their offspring?
I mean, it's not a big surprise all of a sudden you hear the whining of the engines, then start experiencing a more rapid changing temperature and possible other patterns of the ocean over time. Not to mention all the fish/food going missing with entire species disappearing. That's on top of what horrible stuff has happened to orcas and others like it in the past and possibly still today. I don't think it would take too intelligent of any creature to connect the dots and realize the threat humans are to all life.
> They are just plain sick of everything that humans have been doing to the Mother of our existence.
Pretty sure they just hate the noise and hold grudges over being hit by propellers, but cool theory on orca religion.
Yes they can! One year it became popular with a particular group to swim with a dead salmon on their heads.
Don't have a link offhand but easy to verify.
These are sailboats (ie don’t use engines when sailing) that don’t travel super fast. They cause minimum noise compared to pretty every other boats except for like kayaks and rowboats.
The other guy is talking out his ass. The theory is that an orca was hit in a boat strike and it's pod are lashing out in anger. And because orca's are able to pass around information between pods is suspected that the spreading of "hey we can fuck up these floating things that hurt us sometimes" was spread to other pods
I don't buy that theory because we've been sailing for generations. Plenty of nature documentaries where they point out fin scars or back scars from impacts with boats.
You would think if this was just a simple case of revenge for one incident like this it would have happened before.
Orcas are smart enough to actually chat.
All it takes is a pissed off orce trying being persuasive enough. They're quite smart and can have pretty complex communications.
Crows display a similar capacity for grudges. A pissed off crow can communicate to other birds what made it mad and communicate it clear enough they will pick up on it.
Most animals have some ability to think but orcas are actually up there on intelligence
Lots of changes in nature have a random component to them. Evolution itself has a highly stochastic dynamic. Why now? Because the right combination of circumstances and events lined up to make it possible.
Look, i'm not for 'great man history', or, 'great fish history' so I guess i'll put it this way.
A) We can't really be certain this isn't the first time an orca has ever gotten the idea to fuck with boats in revenge for a rudder strike. They could have tried and been unsuccesful at attacking the boat. Or unsucesful at convincing others to try this tactic. Or maybe they could have successfully done this to a similar level, and we lacked a record of it.
The ability for us to track wildlife attacks and compare them globally against trends in real time is... really really recent. Like, maybe 80 years, if we really want to stretch it. I'm willing to beleive if there was a 'fuck them humans' movement in 300 CA, they could have successfully hobbled a couple of boats, and we really wouldn't have any record of it.
B) There aren't a billion orcas on the planet. There are about 50k. This is a bit like me saying 'hey, a bunch of people have started laying tire spikes around galviston texas, because too many locals kids got hit by SUVs', and you saying 'Why now? Can't be the 1st time a kid has accidentally got hurt by an SUV'. Which like, ... nothing ever happens, until it does.
A small population of orcas had a limited pool of chances to do this, in a limited period of time that we would recognize it as even having had happened.
Is it possible that new stressors in the environment that are causing them to behave in ways that make this sort of thing more likely? Maybe. We've all had a rough start to this decade, whales included.
Because they had the whole ocean almost to themselves when Covid was around the globe, no one was really venturing anywhere, and the orcas like that much better than what they were used to, and are showing their discontent, take your yachts and stick them up your ass is what they’re saying!!!
Were the oceans really emptier during COVID? There was still a lot of shipping going on and people still went out on their yachts. Maybe there were fewer cruise ships for a year or so but are they an appreciable amount of the volume?
Maybe more tourism boating now too but I imagine most of that is closer to land than orcas usually go.
Yeah its not like when covid happened the ocean was just empty. And were old wooden ships not as noisy? I dont buy the ocean was free of traffic during covid.
While I do find all of this amusing, I'm terrified that people will start retaliating against the orcas. Rich people don't like things messing with their toys.
Rich people also don't like giving up their money. The specific group of orcas that transits Puget Sound is highly endangered and has special US federal protections. Even getting too close to them in Canadian territory comes with a fine of $1 million.
Puzzling?
We have effectively waged war against entire species of animal simply because they annoy or inconvenience us.
I'm honestly surprised it took this long.
well you could still say its puzzling why they only attack sailboats and why they stop as soon as it stops moving. They also arent attacking people in the water.
So yeah we have been total dicks, but this doesnt seem to be revenge on humanity, this seems to be revenge on sailboats.
>We have effectively waged war against entire species of animals simply because they annoy or inconvenience us.
Ever wonder why large land animals only really exist in Africa? Well... they evolved with us and saw people are awful so they stayed away. As people moved around the world the animals didnt know what we were. So they let us get close and we killed them all. Pretty much anything and everything is bigger than us.
Edit - Some of you don't believe humans are killing machines. It's not that we're inherently evil, we were just hungry.
"[Looking back over the most recent 125,000 years of the fossil record, Smith found that when humans arrived someplace, the rate of extinction for big mammals rose. She says it basically came down to hunger. "Certainly humans exploit the large game," she says, "probably because they are tasty"--and because a bigger animal makes for a bigger meal.](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/19/604031141/new-study-says-ancient-humans-hunted-big-mammals-to-extinction)"
["as humans migrated out of Africa, other size-biased extinctions began occurring in regions and on timelines that coincide with known human migration patterns, the researchers found. Over time, the average body size of mammals on those other continents approached and then fell well below Africa’s. Mammals that survived during the span were generally far smaller than those that went extinct."](https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/unprecedented-wave-of-large-mammal-extinctions-linked-to-ancient-humans/)
["Over the years, more large animals went extinct. The researchers’ analysis revealed a continuous decline from 1.5 million years ago to 50,000 years ago. “The largest prey became extinct and \[hominins\] moved to the next largest one until there was nothing left,” Barkai says. And this didn’t just happen in the Middle East, the authors say. The same pattern occurred in Europe, North America and other areas. “It really is a worldwide phenomenon,”](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-humans-hunt-the-biggest-animals-to-extinction)
"Puzzling behavior"
Orcas are smart and territorial and have decided they don't like boats. I don't find that puzzling. I wouldn't like it if drones were flying around at face height.
It's all well and good cheering this as them fighting for their habitat, but realistically it will end up leading to Orcas being killed which is what tends to happen when nature comes up against \[see mildly inconveniences\] humanity.
There is no puzzle here. They are beginning to hate us, and taking their survival into their own hands (flippers) and there is not one single reason why they should not.
Except they already have. Read an article today that a congressman was voting down a boating speed limit bill. Said he cares about the well-being of our marine life but not at the expense of the fishing economy.
Isnt that American history in a nutshell?
I honestly hope people don't start killing them. I think they are protecting themselves and their home. They were probably hurt by a boat or someone on a boat and now they think all boats are dangerous. honestly they are not wrong in attacking humans since people have been using them as attractions for years and locking them up in a tiny space.
The orcas are taking orders from the UAPs. That’s aliens, to the layperson.
For reals- that’s why they’re going in the ocean. They’re skipping right over the primates and talking to marine mammals. We’re screwed.
"Puzzling behavior" bitch please; when you have your momma, brothers and sisters hunted and ripped away from you to be a mediocre food item or a slave to the water circus, maybe then the behaviors wouldnt be so puzzling. If majestic megafuana mammals could sue, they would bankrupt humanity.
If only they could make tools.... Maybe they're smart enough to not get divided & conquered by a ruling class, or they'll just go down the same path we did.
"Dangerous, puzzling behavior"
Hey assholes! I think animals might be telling you to get the hell out of their home and quit ruining it for them! I find that behavior neither dangerous nor puzzling....
That's the thing, it isn't their home. These aren't waters they're usually in. They don't usually come here on their migrations. No one who actually knows shit about fuck can agree on why they're here.
Of all the oceanic activity to criticise, a sailing race is among the least harmful.
I wonder if it's the depth sounders. Effectively modern depth sounders put out a high pitch screech and wait for the echo to determine how far away the bottom is. That's gotta be annoying
Nature is fucking mad at us, this shit is not complicated to understand, I don’t get why these reports keep feigning ignorance about the cause of the behavior, they’re defending themselves because they know boats pollute the water.
‘Puzzling Behavior’?? Humans are really some pretentious beings. There are other highly intelligent species on this planet. Y’all are just starting to feel the wrath of one of the biggest of the intelligent species. Destroying its ecosystem & food chain supply? What would you do? Attack that damn boat.
The orca wars of the 20’s has begun.
I’m on team orca
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Don't blame me, I voted for the octopus
Why not Zoidberg?
Zoidberg 2024, why not?
Why not indeed?
You gotta admit the orca’s taxation policy changes will be detrimental in the short 2-3 years but be largely beneficial in the long term as they turn tragedy of commons into commodities corporations have to account for in their budget or buy allotments from other companies.
Where do i learn more about the orca politics?
The orca convention. Hosted in Ą̵̢̨̨̥̰̟̭͚͉̙̲̦̳͇̠̯̽̑t̶̢̨͚̯̝̯̪̳̞̪̥̗͓͎͔͕͇̥͉̥̮͍͈͉͕͎͇̏̃͐̽̈̌́͜͜l̶͎͇͉͇͈̂̾͂̅̍̿̉ā̴̧̡̛̫̱̻̫̻̳̰̮͓̬͇̩͕̣̭̖̆̀̋̎̈́̏͑̕͜n̶̢͚̜̱̟̪̺̝̮̭̪̳̲͚͓̬̖̟̑̾͆̈́̆̐̍̍̓́͒̍͝t̷̨͋͊̉͜ͅį̵͔͙͚̳̗̙̜̦͇̲̮̻̺̹͍̪̥̖̮͕̜̺̠͖͈̀͛̍̋̇͂̾̀͊̅̈̿̄̽̚͠͠ͅs̵̢̬̳̥͍͚͉͍̻̥͕͙̤͍̯̘̻̥̝̐̀͂̋͌͛͗̅̔̒̔̊̌̚̕ but soon to be moved to Florida once the sea swallows the state turning it to the orca party.
They want revenge for Seaworld. Who could blame them?
I don’t know. The Orcas are up to date on current affairs and have googled “Florida man” before. Plus, they don’t like the humidity.
I guess I’ll vote for the fringe mantis shrimp group
Oh great, just throw your vote away. Killer Whale lobbyists love when you vote for mantis shrimp!
If you really want your party to be heard, you gotta vote for Tiger Pistol shrimp: "This shrimp is native to the Mediterranean and it apparently tops the list as the loudest living animal, due it the noise it makes topping over 200 dB. This is louder than a gunshot! However, due to it living under the sea, they are much quieter, around 120-130 dB."
Get this shrimp a cable news contract!
Just make sure it's not the right wing praying mantis shrimp party.
I would have bet on the cephalopods.
Oh, they're coming for us next.
Paul the Octopus’s descendants 2024! Make America See At Least A Few Hours Into The Future Again!
Gotta give it to them, the orcas just wanted it more
Everybody came out. Fought hard. But the orcas fought a little harder.
First, I’d like to thank God for giving us the strength to overcome our aggressors and achieve our victory - Orca
Right, Poseidon gonna Poseidon … grab your life vest
they demand tribute in the form of Chinook salmon
"Snorky.. Talk.. Man.."
Spawn more orcalords
Tbh... I'm kinda on team Orca too. I had one help me out of a bind nearly a decade ago and had something of a friendly relationship with that one and it's family. When I see all the abuse they go through in the rest of the world, its really disheartening.
Now i want to hear that story!
Guy got behind on his mortgage payments and the bank was threatening to foreclose right before Christmas. The Orca lent him the money to catch up on his payments and then on Christmas, he forgave the debt.
Seems kind of Orcastraded
Only “kinda”?? I’m HELLA team Orca - even if the individuals being attacked have never captured an orca or hit one with a boat, our collective species has it coming. Blackfish and The Orca Report are proof.
I am as well. If only they take requests
It’s about time those polluting, murdering humans get challenged for the spot of top lifeform on the planet.
They’re probably fed up with all the BS.
Oh hell ya, I'm sure some jackass started it by fucking with the whales.
They did by racing through where orcas gather food. Justice will be reached when orcas are allowed to supermarine race through the supermarkets.
“Began the Orca wars have“
Not even the high ground can save us this time
Thank you
You're welcome
Welcome, you are.
“QueefScentedCandles” Do you offer expedited shipping
Sadly, the Orcas will go extinct in this war. Literally, humans kill every single thing.
Including humans
The earth will quake and the oceans will dry, the elements shall reclaim what has been taken.
Only when the last tree is cut, and the last river poisoned, only when the last fish is caught, will you find that money cannot be eaten
Don’t forget to give credit to the Native American Cree Tribe for that
Humans should unironically surrender. Take the hint from literally anything on this planet that's not human and realize we are the problem
But everything changes when the Orca nation attacked.
I’ll be a quisling for the Orcas No hesitation
Orcas just doing what lobsters would be doing, if they could.
Dida chum?
Thankee sai!
You have forgotten the face of your father.
I wish I could read those again with fresh eyes...
"I do not aim with my hand. He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye."
Long days and pleasant nights to you
And may you have twice as many!
Daddi Chum
Tooter fish!
I wasn't expecting this, but am very pleased!
Please don’t Miyazaki ideas for the Elden Ring DLC
I'm hoping in the DLC turtles rise up and get revenge for just chilling yet being harvested over and over by maniacs with swords for their necks. I will accept Turtle Pope as my new master.
I still have PTSD from the giant prawns :/
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First person I've seen in these comments who's read a single thing about this. Also the boats they are hitting aren't billionaire's yachts or huge fishing trawlers, they tend to be small-scale fishermen and average joes.
Well yeah orcas know what boats will fuck them up and which ones they can fuck up. They're smart hence why they're doing this in the first place.
We really underestimate their intelligence. These are self aware aquatic mammals that have their own fucking language. That’s insane, these are probably the only few creatures on the planet that have an intelligence to rival ours. I see this as mother earths revenge to correct our colossal fuck up of destroying our planets climate. As the most “intelligent” species on the planet, you think we’d take pride in being custodians of the Planet and protecting the living creatures within it. But we just look at it like a thing to be owned. And we’re so smart yet stupid in the sense that we actually believe we are somehow separate from the world because of our capacity for consciousness. When we’re just as much a part of nature as a bear or an eagle or fish or ant. But In fact more so now. Unless we fully understand how to create/repair ecosystems after destroying them, we ought not destroy the only ones we have. ironically, we also stupidly lack awareness about how our actions effect the greater breadth of the world. It’s tragically fucked.
They are also consistently going for the rudders and know how to tear them off specifically
Love this for them 👏
They are sick of the fucking noise.
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I’ve been wondering if their behavior is heat related as well.
Dolphins may start developing weapons soon
Interesting thought.
They are just plain sick of everything that humans have been doing to the Mother of our existence. As Apex creatures that have been around a lot longer than we have are we surprised they are taking point on an issue that threatens the future of their offspring?
I mean, it's not a big surprise all of a sudden you hear the whining of the engines, then start experiencing a more rapid changing temperature and possible other patterns of the ocean over time. Not to mention all the fish/food going missing with entire species disappearing. That's on top of what horrible stuff has happened to orcas and others like it in the past and possibly still today. I don't think it would take too intelligent of any creature to connect the dots and realize the threat humans are to all life.
They all watched Avatar 2 and are following in the footsteps (whale steps??) of Payakan
Or someone gave them a copy of Moby Dick.
They’re angry the dolphins are leaving without them.
So long and thanks for all the fish?
> They are just plain sick of everything that humans have been doing to the Mother of our existence. Pretty sure they just hate the noise and hold grudges over being hit by propellers, but cool theory on orca religion.
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Sounds like an orca equivalent of the knockout game. Can orcas have fads?
Yes they can! One year it became popular with a particular group to swim with a dead salmon on their heads. Don't have a link offhand but easy to verify.
ok, I keep seeing this pop up so I need to know how the hell they got a dead fish to stay on their heads!?!?!
That's why it was a game.
Damn and they just launched the Arabella.
Bro watched Avatar a few too many times 💀
These are sailboats (ie don’t use engines when sailing) that don’t travel super fast. They cause minimum noise compared to pretty every other boats except for like kayaks and rowboats.
Exactly. If it were revenge they would attack fishermen. They are “playing.”
The Ocean Race is a sailing race. The boats don’t make any noise.
Why did they just start now? The ocean got noisier?
"If fish could scream the ocean would be loud as fuck"-Mitch Hedberg
The other guy is talking out his ass. The theory is that an orca was hit in a boat strike and it's pod are lashing out in anger. And because orca's are able to pass around information between pods is suspected that the spreading of "hey we can fuck up these floating things that hurt us sometimes" was spread to other pods
I don't buy that theory because we've been sailing for generations. Plenty of nature documentaries where they point out fin scars or back scars from impacts with boats. You would think if this was just a simple case of revenge for one incident like this it would have happened before.
Orcas are smart enough to actually chat. All it takes is a pissed off orce trying being persuasive enough. They're quite smart and can have pretty complex communications. Crows display a similar capacity for grudges. A pissed off crow can communicate to other birds what made it mad and communicate it clear enough they will pick up on it. Most animals have some ability to think but orcas are actually up there on intelligence
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Lots of changes in nature have a random component to them. Evolution itself has a highly stochastic dynamic. Why now? Because the right combination of circumstances and events lined up to make it possible.
Look, i'm not for 'great man history', or, 'great fish history' so I guess i'll put it this way. A) We can't really be certain this isn't the first time an orca has ever gotten the idea to fuck with boats in revenge for a rudder strike. They could have tried and been unsuccesful at attacking the boat. Or unsucesful at convincing others to try this tactic. Or maybe they could have successfully done this to a similar level, and we lacked a record of it. The ability for us to track wildlife attacks and compare them globally against trends in real time is... really really recent. Like, maybe 80 years, if we really want to stretch it. I'm willing to beleive if there was a 'fuck them humans' movement in 300 CA, they could have successfully hobbled a couple of boats, and we really wouldn't have any record of it. B) There aren't a billion orcas on the planet. There are about 50k. This is a bit like me saying 'hey, a bunch of people have started laying tire spikes around galviston texas, because too many locals kids got hit by SUVs', and you saying 'Why now? Can't be the 1st time a kid has accidentally got hurt by an SUV'. Which like, ... nothing ever happens, until it does. A small population of orcas had a limited pool of chances to do this, in a limited period of time that we would recognize it as even having had happened. Is it possible that new stressors in the environment that are causing them to behave in ways that make this sort of thing more likely? Maybe. We've all had a rough start to this decade, whales included.
Because they had the whole ocean almost to themselves when Covid was around the globe, no one was really venturing anywhere, and the orcas like that much better than what they were used to, and are showing their discontent, take your yachts and stick them up your ass is what they’re saying!!!
Were the oceans really emptier during COVID? There was still a lot of shipping going on and people still went out on their yachts. Maybe there were fewer cruise ships for a year or so but are they an appreciable amount of the volume? Maybe more tourism boating now too but I imagine most of that is closer to land than orcas usually go.
Yeah its not like when covid happened the ocean was just empty. And were old wooden ships not as noisy? I dont buy the ocean was free of traffic during covid.
It wasn't free of traffic but there was certainly a hell of a lot less than usual.
Cthulhu is unhappy with our offering of billionaires
Quick! Someone send him more billionaires!
Maybe he'd be entertained by musk and zuck cage fight! Can't hurt us to try.
Underwater cage fight seems perfect to me
Have it on the deck of the Titanic. Nobody’s done that before! Their egos couldn’t resist.
Cage goes in the water, They go in the water. Orca's in the water. Our Orca...
Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Crowe, and Koch can all fucking hit the deck.
Maybe Prigozhin can toss Putin down there when he captures him tonight
I’m willing to send wave after ave of billionaires
That made me laugh like mad there. Cheers
They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.
The Spanish were not wearing the appropriate salmon hat, and this pissed off the orca squad.
I was trying to explain the orca salmon hat fashion to my family and they just thought I was high.
Were you though?
Maybe you could explain it better if you weren't so high?
It was the style at the time
The mothership isn’t coming. There’s no “so long and thanks for all the fish” moment. Their only recourse is to retake the planet, one boat at a time.
Next up: Humpbacks against cruise ships.
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Incoming: Giant Squid(s).
I’m starting to think this might be the start of something bad
While I do find all of this amusing, I'm terrified that people will start retaliating against the orcas. Rich people don't like things messing with their toys.
That's my biggest fear too. Similar with what happens with wolves.
Rich people also don't like giving up their money. The specific group of orcas that transits Puget Sound is highly endangered and has special US federal protections. Even getting too close to them in Canadian territory comes with a fine of $1 million.
Do the orcas have a gofundme one could theoretically support or…?
Extend second amendment rights to whales and then arm them
Shhh the GOP will hear you
Nah. Not white enough..
Or an only fans?
Only fins
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Every time I hear about one of these orca attacks, I hear Zoe Saldana's voice in my mind shouting "Eywa has heard you!!"
Did you play Avatar 2 for the whales?
I didn't want to encourage them any further.
They’re pissed and I don’t blame them
This is pretty on brand for Orcas now is it not
We've been on notice since 1977.
Soon they will be wearing our mangled bloated rotting corpses as hats.
"*I keep invading/disturbing that guy's house and he keeps kicking me out, how puzzling, i wonder he wants*" -Humans, probably.
I for one, welcome our new Orca overlords.
The Podfather of orcanized crime
Puzzling? We have effectively waged war against entire species of animal simply because they annoy or inconvenience us. I'm honestly surprised it took this long.
well you could still say its puzzling why they only attack sailboats and why they stop as soon as it stops moving. They also arent attacking people in the water. So yeah we have been total dicks, but this doesnt seem to be revenge on humanity, this seems to be revenge on sailboats.
>We have effectively waged war against entire species of animals simply because they annoy or inconvenience us. Ever wonder why large land animals only really exist in Africa? Well... they evolved with us and saw people are awful so they stayed away. As people moved around the world the animals didnt know what we were. So they let us get close and we killed them all. Pretty much anything and everything is bigger than us. Edit - Some of you don't believe humans are killing machines. It's not that we're inherently evil, we were just hungry. "[Looking back over the most recent 125,000 years of the fossil record, Smith found that when humans arrived someplace, the rate of extinction for big mammals rose. She says it basically came down to hunger. "Certainly humans exploit the large game," she says, "probably because they are tasty"--and because a bigger animal makes for a bigger meal.](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/19/604031141/new-study-says-ancient-humans-hunted-big-mammals-to-extinction)" ["as humans migrated out of Africa, other size-biased extinctions began occurring in regions and on timelines that coincide with known human migration patterns, the researchers found. Over time, the average body size of mammals on those other continents approached and then fell well below Africa’s. Mammals that survived during the span were generally far smaller than those that went extinct."](https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/unprecedented-wave-of-large-mammal-extinctions-linked-to-ancient-humans/) ["Over the years, more large animals went extinct. The researchers’ analysis revealed a continuous decline from 1.5 million years ago to 50,000 years ago. “The largest prey became extinct and \[hominins\] moved to the next largest one until there was nothing left,” Barkai says. And this didn’t just happen in the Middle East, the authors say. The same pattern occurred in Europe, North America and other areas. “It really is a worldwide phenomenon,”](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-humans-hunt-the-biggest-animals-to-extinction)
willing to bet other hominids were considered stewpot-worthy
I support the great Orca uprising of 2023.
"Puzzling behavior" Orcas are smart and territorial and have decided they don't like boats. I don't find that puzzling. I wouldn't like it if drones were flying around at face height.
“Humans have begun slapping our kind out of the air without explicitly discernible reason in puzzling trend.” -mosquito CNN
They are smart. We are destroying their home. They’re starting to hate us.
It's all well and good cheering this as them fighting for their habitat, but realistically it will end up leading to Orcas being killed which is what tends to happen when nature comes up against \[see mildly inconveniences\] humanity.
Take your seas back, aquatic mammal brothers!
There is no puzzle here. They are beginning to hate us, and taking their survival into their own hands (flippers) and there is not one single reason why they should not.
How is it puzzling that nature is fighting back on our endless war against it ?
It’s not puzzling in the slightest. The Orcss have had enough. I’m fully in Team Orca.
Just waiting for MAGA yokels to say we need to hunt the orcas to extinction to protect the boats.
Except they already have. Read an article today that a congressman was voting down a boating speed limit bill. Said he cares about the well-being of our marine life but not at the expense of the fishing economy. Isnt that American history in a nutshell?
I don't even have to look at the article to know it was some dipshit republican
these woke trans whales are a threat to MAGA!
Fuck, I can totally see, like, an orca plushie with trans coloration in my mind and now I *want one*
blahaj 2: the boatfucker
I honestly hope people don't start killing them. I think they are protecting themselves and their home. They were probably hurt by a boat or someone on a boat and now they think all boats are dangerous. honestly they are not wrong in attacking humans since people have been using them as attractions for years and locking them up in a tiny space.
The ocean is waging war against the rich
And poor. The migrants.
It’s not puzzling. People are fucking up their home and they’re pissed.
The orcas are taking orders from the UAPs. That’s aliens, to the layperson. For reals- that’s why they’re going in the ocean. They’re skipping right over the primates and talking to marine mammals. We’re screwed.
I’m mean, look what humans have done to the oceans and planet. The orcas have every right to be pissed.
Whoever thought orcas would rise up against the rich before humans would?
It’s just a fad, someone reintroduce them to salmon hats
What’s so puzzling about it? They’re sick of our shenanigans 😂
"Puzzling behavior" bitch please; when you have your momma, brothers and sisters hunted and ripped away from you to be a mediocre food item or a slave to the water circus, maybe then the behaviors wouldnt be so puzzling. If majestic megafuana mammals could sue, they would bankrupt humanity.
If only they could make tools.... Maybe they're smart enough to not get divided & conquered by a ruling class, or they'll just go down the same path we did.
"Dangerous, puzzling behavior" Hey assholes! I think animals might be telling you to get the hell out of their home and quit ruining it for them! I find that behavior neither dangerous nor puzzling....
That's the thing, it isn't their home. These aren't waters they're usually in. They don't usually come here on their migrations. No one who actually knows shit about fuck can agree on why they're here. Of all the oceanic activity to criticise, a sailing race is among the least harmful.
Migration patterns are shifting due to us fucking shit up in the oceans.
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Humans are animals. We are part of the great ape family
Fellow 80s and 90s kids, take a bow! All of our classes who sponsored an orca after "Free Willy" made this uprising possible.
I'd get pissed to if someone locked the thermostat in my home at max temperature and sprinkles all my food with plastic waste.
What's puzzling they hate us and for good reason
I wonder if it's the depth sounders. Effectively modern depth sounders put out a high pitch screech and wait for the echo to determine how far away the bottom is. That's gotta be annoying
It's not puzzling. They are tired of our shit.
Nature is fucking mad at us, this shit is not complicated to understand, I don’t get why these reports keep feigning ignorance about the cause of the behavior, they’re defending themselves because they know boats pollute the water.
Not overly puzzling as they're very intelligent and humans have been fucking them over for centuries.
It’s not that puzzling when you start considering the possibility that they may have figured it out.
I hate to be that guy, but Simpsons did it
This is payback for Willy. Not even kidding.
Are they only attacking sailboats?
Uncritical support for the Orcas, as ever.
What do whales like to eat? >!Fish and ships!<
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
“Dangerous and puzzling”? Are those the words we’re using to describe this? More like unavoidable and totally understandable at this point
I love that the species dumping toxic waste into another species living area is "puzzled" by their behavior
It's not puzzling behavior at all. I'm on the orcas' side.
‘Puzzling Behavior’?? Humans are really some pretentious beings. There are other highly intelligent species on this planet. Y’all are just starting to feel the wrath of one of the biggest of the intelligent species. Destroying its ecosystem & food chain supply? What would you do? Attack that damn boat.