www.ibtimes.sg/yacht-sinks-after-being-rammed-by-orcas-strait-gibraltar-again-74590
Yacht Sinks After Being Rammed by Orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar, Again
I'm on team orca too
So a few WAGs:
- Sea temrperarure rises are pissing them off.
- Some sonar weaponry is pissing them off.
- They view boats as a new competitor and try to take them out. I bet their food sources are becoming more scare due to pollution or noise or over fishing. The orcas have made a correlation with the boats and work together to take out the predator.
——- Apparently it started with one or a a few years ago. It appears they are learning this behavior from each other. The wildlife we’ve organized and are starting to fight back.
Not to mention the noise of global shipping. Can you imagine trying to think with that cacophony?
- They enjoy it. If you have ever seen video of orcas tossing a dead seal around, you know that they like to party.
No joke, this is the prevailing theory.
They are not angry or trying to hurt us. They have developed a game where they specifically try to break rudders on ships. It seem they are challenging themselves and going after rudders as big as possible for them to break. They don't seem to go after smaller vessels and they obviously don't fuck with big cargo ships.
So they go after yachts and other large pleasure craft.
As I recall, the overarching theory of evolutionary biology is adaption. I’m not sure how this game is adaptive (maybe for hunting practice) because they get no food or reproductive advantage, but whatever.
Also, I imagine the marine insurers are not covering these claims based on “act of nature” policy exclusions. If the orcas had a better understanding of maritime law, perhaps they would change their behavior.
Orcas are highly intelligent. To a degree we don't yet understand, but they seem to have a culture that they pass down.
From what we can tell, this game is a new part of their culture. No one is sure how it started, but some theorize that a pod mother was maybe injured by a vessel and retaliated by breaking the rudder. Whatever her reason was, she kept doing it.
Then the pod saw this behavior and the young adopted it as a game. Probably not really understanding the original reason it started.
It's super weird and we don't know much about it, but it doesn't seem to have any meaning or goal. They are not trying to accomplish anything with this. They do not seem agressive towards boats or humans(thank god).
It just seems to be a game to them. They like to break rudders.
Anthropomorphism much?
they get no food or reproductive advantage
same with my dog and a tennis ball: no food, no reproduction -but he goes after it every time. my neighbor's dog does the same. there have been studies of that specific behavior and it is enlightening but the points are much more complex than what a simple evolutionary review would elicit.
i don't think there's definitive evidence why these whales are behaving this way but over-rationalizing evolutionary theory isn't going to shed light on behavior that may well be purely fashionable.
Be like orcas.
I think they are trying to help
They must be angry with us humans...
Lets fucking go!
direct action
Apparently these killer whales communicated with the Samolian pirates :)
Who knew orcas were NYMBY's! Get that yacht of my lawn! It sucks that orcas have to resort to this to get some piece and quiet, but rich people gonna do rich things 😕.
Oh no! Anyway.
Boy did I read a lot of that incorrect for a moment.
“Yacht stinks after being rimmed by orcas…”
It’s late.
They spoke to the ones we released from captivity
Team Orca ✊🏼