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I gather that global orca populations have a variety of spoken treaties they uphold, so only they pass this information on to each right now While the humans d
by yieldcrv 3y ago
I gather that global orca populations have a variety of spoken treaties they uphold, so only they pass this information on to each right now
While the humans don’t know them anymore, except in a couple small hunting populations
Following this theory, I found a similar treaty as the “law” mentioned in this article, amongst some of the Salish people in the Pacific Northwest, a lot of the indigenous groups with their own national identities in North America don’t have organized written records and especially not on the internet to reach the broader collective conscious and I think people assume otherwise.
if this phenomenon in the article was reportedly going on for a millennium in that one region of the world, I could see there being cross-drift to other regions
this is supporting my idea that the orcas still communicate it, and act that way towards us because of it, as opposed to any innate symbiotic relationship or general disinterest in violence towards humans
- marcosdumay 3y agoWell, they seem to innately be disgusted by we as food. They also seem to have some "respect" for we as hunters or something like that (but then, this one is easy to acquire). And differently from almost every other predator on Earth, that "respect" doesn't innately lead to fear. Since both of those are reciprocal, it's as much an innate relation as you can get with thinking social animals.
- civilitty 3y agoTheir usual source of food like seals taste better because they have much more fat to keep them insulated and mariners are generally leaner people. Once they get a taste of the average sedentary American and their corn fed blubber, I’m sure they’ll acquire a taste for manflesh.
- quesera 3y agoIf the Orca can get their evolutionary efforts in gear, there's good eatin' to be had. I'm open to the idea of another species demonstrating a higher position on the food chain. We've been resting on our laurels for too long, ready for an injection of new energy.
- yieldcrv 3y agoif someone genetically modifies octopus to survive sexual maturity, we’d probably have a contender they have a mutation where their digestive tract closes as soon as they can mate, but they reproduce so thats the only thing optimized for in natural selection fix that and we can see where that cognition goes
- yieldcrv 3y agoand yet thats not what we see right now, after a millennium of something different in some regions there isnt so much collaboration only more of a truce