This is a nature article, not hard hitting scientific journalism - it is designed for a “lay audience” as you so condescendingly put it. It’s accepted that the

This is a nature article, not hard hitting scientific journalism - it is designed for a “lay audience” as you so condescendingly put it. It’s accepted that there are unique “dialects” and cultural artifacts amongst different pods of orcas, for instance. They’ve been observed engaging in highly clever and coordinated attacks on prey (that can differ drastically depending on culture). It’s not really “running amok” to make a conclusion that they’re probably not coordinating and passing along cultural artifacts/hunting techniques by telepathy, but I do acknowledge that we don’t know everything.