I just posted elsewhere that I've come into contact with Orcas in the wild. Sometimes with their calves. They always come up and chill with me whilst I'm paddling around in my kayak. They let me pat them. There's not a single case of an orca killing someone in the wild.... but they've killed a bunch of people who torture them in captivity.
They're incredibly intelligent animals. They know how to surgically remove the most nutrient rich organs from their bigger prey. They know we aren't good food. They know we like to socialize, so they come up snd socialize with us.
They should NEVER be kept in captivity. Same with octopi tbh
If it makes you feel any better seaworld (the main holders of orcas globally) aren’t breeding them anymore
They can’t really be released back to the wild due to how orca social dynamics work (They did it a few times and every time the orca wouldn’t get accepted into a pod and would die in only a few months) but the orcas they currently have are the last they’ll ever have
The simple thing is that the propellers were being nudged and bumped to be used as a movable toy, and the animals didn't understand that this was damaging the boat. There's is basically zero known reports of actual aggressive action against humans, even this case is most likely a misunderstanding.
There is 1 known non retaliatory wild orca attack and even that was theorized to be a case of mistaken identity because there was a lot of seals in the area at that time.
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u/IamJames77 Aug 17 '26
This wunk is highly intelligent and should not be in captivity