Orcas sink sailing yacht in Strait of Gibraltar
Orcas sink sailing yacht in Strait of Gibraltar
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain's maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.
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Orcas are normally docile towards humans. They felt like they had a reason to sink that ship.
The world could do with fewer yachts anyways.
I've heard of a couple sinkings lately. Not that that contradicts your statement about docility, in fact I intend to add to it. Multiple little pods / small groups of species with similar cognition / intelligences (especially elephants, but also whales and often corvids) have been known to get fed up with humans' shit and go on targeted rampages. They don't think too dissimilarly from us, and revenge is certainly a pretty big human motivator.
The way elephants traditionally landscape the savannah, using long-term planning, makes me think attempting to weed out rogue humans might also be a pretty rational decision for high cognition animals.
This is a sailboat though isn't it? It's not like a billionaire mega yacht (unfortunately).
Well, it's a submarine now.
Orcas are one step closer to eating the rich as we all wish
nature is fighting back
Go whales!
Can’t Elon or some other millionaire/billionaire be onboard for the next ones?? Too much to ask?
There's a similar account from the 6th century CE Roman Empire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrios_(whale)
Could be a whale, or a large orca. The story goes that it was a single creature, but I think a series of Orca attacks that got attributed to a single creature fits the evidence as easily.
Word.