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Crafty Killer Whales Are Harassing Alaskan Fishing Boats
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoI wonder if this isn't "harassment", exactly. It sounds like they've learned that they can collect a whole lot of fish for not much effort. The fact that doing so ruins the fishing is a side effect. I heard about a similar thing with bears in Yosemite. They had a back-country steak fry. They had 700 steaks there. A couple of bears (mother and adolescent cub) showed up. The people scattered. The bears ignored the people, because they had found 700 steaks. They put the mother down, and transplanted the cub several hundred miles away. The next summer, the cub - now an adult - showed up for the steak fry. Those bears weren't trying to "harass" the steak fry. They didn't have anything against such a gathering. They just learned, "Hey, free food".