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Free time, curiosity and playfulness has led to young orcas bumping boats

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Re: Free time, curiosity and playfulness has led to young orcas bumping boats

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smokel wrote: post #3
agent13 wrote: post #2

TLDR; its the orca equivalent of the latest tiktok trend.

Fifty years ago we would have explained it as religious worshipping behavior, now it's just for fun.

This would be 100 years ago. 50 years ago it would be action against imperialism.

Re: Free time, curiosity and playfulness has led to young orcas bumping boats

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> The report reveals that a combination of free time, curiosity and natural playfulness has led to young orcas adopting this 'trend' of boat-bumping..

> Most of the 15 were male juveniles and teens..suggesting that what started as playful head-bumping on boat rudders has escalated as the animals have grown larger..And no orca over the age of 25 – when males are fully grown – has been seen participating in the tomfoolery.

> The animals are known to be sensitive to trends.. Perhaps most famously, in 1987, a female orca in the Pacific Ocean near Puget Sound was observed carrying a dead salmon on her head; within two months, killer whales from her pod and two others were also wearing 'fish hats.' But it was all a fad.

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