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It think it was an orca, I saw this yesterday also. We're all curious what it's trying to communicate, but I like the idea of it repeating back to us what is a
by telesilla 2y ago
It think it was an orca, I saw this yesterday also. We're all curious what it's trying to communicate, but I like the idea of it repeating back to us what is a very annoying sound to them.
- rtkwe 2y ago"This is what you sound like idiot, those aren't even words!" -That Orca Probably I've been highly amused at the tales of Orca's attacking yachts over the last few years too.
- cess11 2y agoYacht in this context typically refers to a rather small sailing boat. It affects small-scale fishers and things like that, not the large motor yachts rich people have.
- dkarl 2y agoI remember watching a nature TV show as a kid in which the presenter waxed lyrical about the way a group of dolphins took one dolphin's vocalization and repeated it and riffed on it, claiming that they were improvising musically together like a jazz group. I remember thinking that it was a very optimistic assumption, and it was just as likely that the rest of the dolphin were mocking and bullying the first dolphin. That train of thought probably says something about what I was going through at the time, but given other things we've learned about dolphins, I wouldn't discount my idea.
- cess11 2y agoOrcas are dolphins.
- lioeters 2y agoThanks for pointing it out, I didn't know that orcas are dolphins too. The one I saw was like a "bottlenose dolphin" with the classic dolphin shape and color. > The orca, or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. > Oceanic dolphins include several big species whose common names contain "whale" rather than "dolphin", such as the round-headed whales including the false killer whale and pilot whale). The Delphinidae family also includes the porpoise, beluga whale, and narwhal.