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Related: https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why https://www.livesci
by ayemel 3y ago
Related: https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-...
tldr: orcas are teaching each other how to sink boats.
- causality0 3y agoI love how the article asks "why?" when humans are an apocalyptic plague on their entire universe.
- wudangmonk 3y agoIn the case of the orca this is an easy question to answer. Its for the lulz.
- falcolas 3y agoGiven how orcas were wearing dead fish hats for a year or so, then abandoned the practice entirely, "for the lulz" isn't necessarily wrong.
- p0pcult 3y ago[dead]
- pfannkuchen 3y agoDo orcas engage in an equivalent of intertribal warfare? If not they might not even have instincts for group defense or retaliation (except in the context of one off encounters with predators).
- AlecSchueler 3y agoNot all-out warfare but there can be inter-pod skirmishes. They also hunt in groups and communicate the movement of their prey to co-ordinate their attacks together.
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