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Seems mind-boggling to me that the article mentions, but makes no comment whatsoever on, the fact that in every case the boat was turned around. Like not just t
by rdiddly 6y ago
Seems mind-boggling to me that the article mentions, but makes no comment whatsoever on, the fact that in every case the boat was turned around. Like not just turned, but turned 180 degrees or close to it. Just in case you've been locked in a geometry classroom since birth, 180º is what we out here might refer to as "back the way you came." Orcas be like: "Hey, nice to see you, welcome to our feeding area, too bad you can't stay, here's your coat & hat, don't let the door hit you etc etc!"
I certainly wouldn't want to imply in the slightest that huuu-mons are narcissistic or focused only on themselves (like "ouch the kick from the shotgun hurt my thumb" is how we might summarize a shot that ruined the lives of an entire pheasant family), but would we be sad to find out that things like "attacking us" and "scaring us", "and making us feel totally powerless by breaking our rudder," all of which figure prominently in the human experience of the encounter, don't even merit a mention in the orca newspaper article about it? Could it be that the orca newspaper article (just bear with me for chrissakes) simply says "Another Boat Found in Feeding Area" and goes on to describe how so-and-so and his crew followed procedure and first broke the rudder, which they've figured out seems to be a prerequisite for taking over steering, and then turned the intruder away?