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This is the first § of the article: > Reports of orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar have left sailors and scientists confused. Just what
by bambax 6y ago
This is the first § of the article:
> Reports of orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar have left sailors and scientists confused. Just what is causing such unusually aggressive behaviour?
We don't know if orcas are "stressed" or if they're having fun, or if they patiently, rationally decided to wage a war against humans on boats.
Adding "stressed" in the title is a judgment call, and a condescending one.
- mediaman 6y agoThe rest of the article goes on to detail the collapsing population of orcas, and the reasons why. It's not a stretch to say a population with catastrophically declining population is likely stressed.
- oska 6y agoI'm the submitter. The whole second half of the article details the ways in which this orca population is stressed. It describes how their population has rapidly declined, they have much less food and there is evidence of them suffering injury from fishing nets and lines and possibly attacks from fishermen. Not to mention the noise and pollution generated by the heavy traffic in that stretch of water. Stressed then is an objective description and not 'a condescending one'. Anyway, the title has been changed now. I don't mind but I don't think adding stressed was unfair, given the details of stress described in the article I have outlined above.