Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavior May Be Spreading

Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by cowthulhu on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:47PM (#36552019)

The orcas are attacking small sailboats, which tend to have less of an environmental impact… less engine use, quiet, fewer people on board, very small scale fishing (if at all). It’s weird to be rooting against this sort of ship when cruise ships and trawlers are the real problem - and also pretty difficult to attack. Will you count it as a success if people favor larger powerboats over small sailboats?

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by dmvdoug on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:07PM (#36552240)

Oh, I think you misunderstood. I’m rooting for the whales as against all the humans. ;)

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by ThisIsNowhere on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:47PM (#36552808)

I know I'm on HN when someone is explaining why the "woke" ideology of the orcas attacking yachts is ultimately futile.

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by someweirdperson on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:46PM (#36554287)

Try to explain that to the Orcas. They are killing those baby boats before they grow into big evil loud adults.

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by cowthulhu on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:29PM (#36555441)

I’m not explaining any ideology… definitely don’t think of Orcas in terms of “woke” or not. Just stating that rooting for the orcas is rooting for something fairly self-defeating.

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by sh34r on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:57PM (#36552114)

Gaia is fighting back. Nature is healing.

As the great George Carlin said: the planet isn’t going anywhere, we are!

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by isoprophlex on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:38PM (#36552681)

Our burden raised the world set free

The earth returns to land and sea

Our buildings burned and highways gone

I love my friends and everyone

But we've had our chance let's move aside

Let time wash us out with the tide

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by nyolfen on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:59PM (#36552997)

as leonard cohen once said: you won't like what comes after [humans]

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by Scarblac on Saturday July 01, 2023 @01:38PM (#36552671)

Just to be pedantic: orcas are dolphins, not whales (despite also being being called "killer whales").

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by Tepix on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:02PM (#36553028)

"The orca (Orcinus orca), also called killer whale, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member."

So it is both a dolphin and a whale.

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by jamiek88 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:26PM (#36556831)

Is a crow a corvid?

Ah, unidan. Back when Reddit drama was low stakes.

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by ethbr0 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:31PM (#36554840)

I too support our proletariat whale and dolphin brethren.

Why should the richest humans sail on personal gilded craft?!

Down with yachts! The hour of revolution is at hand!

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Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavi... by deanCommie on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:43PM (#36554975)

I love whales.

But never forget that Orcas aren't called Killer Whales because they're "Whales That Kill", but because they're "Killers Of Whales".

Orcas kill other whales, sometimes for fun not for food. And they have such a reputation in the cetacean kingdom as brutal murderous assholes, that whales will help seals escape from them, to their own detriment/risk.

So yeah. In Humans vs. Orcas, it's hard not to root for the orcas, especially considering how we've treated them in captivity for the last 100 years. But on a more broader mammalian scale, we're both kind of the intelligent assholes of the animal kingdom.

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