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Killer whales are 'attacking' sailboats near Europe's coast
- bediger4000 4y agoI'm not a lawyer, but if this is in international waters, what's the harm? They're just fish, despite the scary name.
- gardenfelder 4y agoUm...Orcas (whales) are mammals [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca
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- hulitu 4y agoEver heard of PETA ?
- Doxin 4y agoIt may shock you to hear but the law does not apply to fish, or indeed most mammals.
- 11235813213455 4y agoCan't they get hurt by the propeller if the engine is running?
- rightbyte 4y agoThey can yes. It is usually exposed.
- __derek__ 4y ago> Towers points out that such "games" tend to go in and out of fashion in orca society. For example, right now in a population he studies in the Pacific, "we have juvenile males who ... often interact with prawn and crab traps," he says. "That's just been a fad for a few years." > Back in the 1990s, for some orcas in the Pacific, something else was in vogue. "They'd kill fish and just swim around with this fish on their head," Towers says. "We just don't see that anymore." Orcas have their own planking, dabbing, etc. Incredible.
- namaria 4y agoHumans have opposable thumbs, have created civilization and are proud of that fact. Dolphins have no opposable thumbs, have not created civilization and are proud of that fact. (badly) paraphrased from Douglas Adams
- mirko22 4y ago> They were "ramming the boat," Storkson says. "They [hit] us repeatedly ... giving us the impression that it was a coordinated attack." Sounds exactly like the beginning of that ScFi book The Swarm :)