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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In completely unrelated news, some whales seem to be attacking boats/yachts. How weird! Why could this be?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you talking about the orcas that are doing it apparently for shits and giggles or is there bigger underwater uprising on the way?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Been a lot of shark attacks in the news too, that checks out...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well yeah that is what I was talking about, though the articles I saw didn‘t mention any reason at all and if they had said "shits and giggles" I‘d be even more sceptical of that, since I don‘t think animals really fight without a reason.

Now here is where we get to my wild conspiracy theory, I think aquatic species may not like boats, who they can see killing their species or hunting their food sources. Then they react to a predator, so either they flee or attack. Orcas being some of the bigger ones are probably the few who stand any chance whatsoever fighting, so they might try sometimes.

Edit: Ok I just googled around and saw the articles you mentioned saying they do it for fun, I also found this: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/the-orca-uprising-whales-are-ramming-boats-but-are-they-inspired-by-revenge-grief-or-memory

Which made me feel a bit more like at least I‘m not the only one who sees this possibility and also gave me more of an idea of why I might want to see this so much (I think there is an injustice happening).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orcas absolutely do shit like that for fun. They play with their food, like throwing a seal around to each other before killing and eating it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

This is new and different from before, though. If it was just for fun this wouldn't be newsworthy because it would have already been happening.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Mister Nimbus has had enough!