I'm not sure what I was expecting but the orca equivalent of lol tiktok wasn't it.
Free time, curiosity and playfulness has led to young orcas bumping boats
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#42>But, sadly, it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda > Following years of research, a team of biologists, government officials and marine industry representatives have released their findings Nevertheless, the "rich" quickly mobilized with a full on multi-year research team alongside government officials, with decent funding to fix the problem. Out of all the current global and local problems, can't have…
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#43The big issue is that we can't communicate to the orcas that this is not ok. We could very easily destroy them, but of course nobody wants to do that. You could try to spritz them with a water bottle but I suspect they wouldn't notice. Same with the rolled up newspaper trick. It would just dissolve in the water. I'm very worried about these orcas ever since I heard about them. It is probably fun for them what they ar…
> You could try to spritz them with a water bottle but I suspect they wouldn't notice.
One of my cats responds well to the water bottle; mostly I just have to pick it up, I don't even have to spritz it, and I certainly don't have to actually squirt her. The other cat though, could care less, if I get him anywhere other than the face, he just is like 'oh, being naughty did make me thirsty, thanks for the drink'
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do the go after the sail boats or is it just motorboats. The propellers are quite loud under the water, I wonder if they are maybe annoyed by the noise and learnt attacking those vessels makes the noise go away
Why wouldn’t the older ones do that, and only the males?
Genuinely I read it as a little cross-species 'boys will be boys' at work.
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#45>But, sadly, it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda > Following years of research, a team of biologists, government officials and marine industry representatives have released their findings Nevertheless, the "rich" quickly mobilized with a full on multi-year research team alongside government officials, with decent funding to fix the problem. Out of all the current global and local problems, can't have…
It’s a public safety issue. Do you also realize that the working class get out on boats to fish and partake in leisure activities?
I am just going by what the article says:
> For four years now, orcas have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters, and scientists have struggled to work out just why these smart
Where are all these plumbers and teachers with luxury yachts going out on leisure activities?
And article authors were the first one to bring in the "rich" joke with the "it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda" phrase so I just went by that, and thought it was funny that it as has nothing to do with that at all, but the proceeded to describe a multi-year research and study effort to eliminate the problem. There was something a bit ironic there.
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#46So this is how being a bored teenage ocean hooligan looks like?
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#47I'm not sure what I was expecting but the orca equivalent of lol tiktok wasn't it.
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#48So this is how being a bored teenage ocean hooligan looks like?
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#49Not exactly new behavior!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK01HhyOGA
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Being a sailor, I've been carefully paying attention to the Orca reports, they seem to like the modern sail boat fin rudders which have no skeg (vertical support attached to hull with hinged rudder behind) and is pretty easy to knock off the boat with little damage to the Orca. I heard about a boat with a skeg-hung rudder that stopped dead in the water in that area, but was able to continue on with a working rudder.…
I wonder if any boats with a traditional long keel have been affected? I'd expect that arrangement to be even less attractive to an orca given there's no gap between the rudder and keel.
I haven't heard of any Orca success with either skeg-hung or long keel boats. A big "new" development in sailboat design is dropping the skeg on rudders for better sailing performance and lower cost even on blue-water sail boats. And also going with twin fin rudders, so more targets on a single boat for Orca's to play with. So faster and cheaper but far less safe.