Whale Revolution

[Gibbon]

I read in The Times over the weekend that they suspect its to do with a depletion of tuna due to overfishing, so basically they're protecting their food.

[SueEllen]

It's all a bit odd.

It's the whales reclaiming their sea from some annoying creatures....

[NotAllThere]

There was a science fiction story I read where we learned to communicate with orcas. It turned out that some of them were "vegetarian", in that they didn't eat sentient meat. The rest were jerks.

[vetran]

This has been in the sailing press for some time now, but only just seems to have broken through into the mainstream.

There are a few rough tales of attacks happening at night which can't have been much fun.

It's all a bit of a mystery as to why these attacks are taking place... it's not as if anyone's been chumming the waters to see who comes out to play.

It's all a bit odd.

well its not looking good for us, maybe the Orcas are going with the Dolphins?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Lon...r_All_the_Fish

[wattaj]

This has been in the sailing press for some time now, but only just seems to have broken through into the mainstream.

There are a few rough tales of attacks happening at night which can't have been much fun.

It's all a bit of a mystery as to why these attacks are taking place... it's not as if anyone's been chumming the waters to see who comes out to play.

It's all a bit odd.

[DoctorStrangelove]

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.

As quoted by the WWWC in STIV.

[sadkingbilly]

whale oil beef hooked

[SueEllen]

I saw this in the week!

And you didn't post?

Good on 'em.

Whales will take over the world - well the sea level is rising...

[ladymuck]

I saw this in the week! Good on 'em.

[SueEllen]

The fight back has started!

https://www.livescience.com/animals/...e-same-but-why

Orcas have attacked and sunk a third boat off the Iberian coast of Europe, and experts now believe the behavior is being copied by the rest of the population.

Three orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, struck the yacht on the night of May 4 in the Strait of Gibraltar, off the coast of Spain, and pierced the rudder. "There were two smaller and one larger orca," skipper Werner Schaufelberger told the German publication Yacht. "The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the ship with full force from the side."
Schaufelberger said he saw the smaller orcas imitate the larger one. "The two little orcas observed the bigger one's technique and, with a slight run-up, they too slammed into the boat." Spanish coast guards rescued the crew and towed the boat to Barbate, but it sank at the port entrance.


Two days earlier, a pod of six orcas assailed another sailboat navigating the strait. Greg Blackburn, who was aboard the vessel, looked on as a mother orca appeared to teach her calf how to charge into the rudder. "It was definitely some form of education, teaching going on," Blackburn told 9news.

Reports of aggressive encounters with orcas off the Iberian coast began in May 2020 and are becoming more frequent, according to a study published June 2022 in the journal Marine Mammal Science. Assaults seem to be mainly directed at sailing boats and follow a clear pattern, with orcas approaching from the stern to strike the rudder, then losing interest once they have successfully stopped the boat.