Quokk.auWhy do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250701020…
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It’s great how we’re finally acknowledging the intelligence of other animals as the default rather than isolated and unusual occurrences. Before the work of Doctor Goodall, we basically acted as those complex social dynamics were impossible or exceedingly unlikely.
Religion has for ever tainted morons' (read: most people) minds. That is the only place I ever heard how special and unique humans are supposedly.
SuperiorOnePlot twist: The handed fishes are highly contained with inorganic arsenic, and they're trying to kill humans with more sophisticated methods.
davelDon’t be fooled by their seeming friendliness: they’re just trying to fatten us up.
I got to the same conclusion but I was thinking of the orcas as grannys, complaining that we are too skinny and won't survive without a good layer of blubber.
Øπ3ŕFerreal, though. They already rank among crows & wolves (as far as we can tell, ahem), and if their world is rapidly turning into acid, I can only imagine what they must assume that our, much smaller home biome must be doing...
Now, if they knew that it was us behind it all?! 🥲 It'd likely be a much different story — and I wouldn't blame them a bit. 🤷🏼♂️
Hey, waitaminute... If the oligarchs are building bigger and more numerous yachts while the landmasses crisp to fund their puny, plastic existences... Can we use LLMs to share that info with these seawolves? (How do you even say "luigi" in orca?)
Yacht evokes images of sail ships but those billionaire yachts are more like ferries. I don't think the orcas can take them out (unless you supply the c4).
NGL, if orcas can deploy c4, I feel it'd only be neighborly to figure out how to supply it.
I mean, *sheeyit*. We gotta step it up as a fuckin' species if *they're* out there, more than capable of planting high-tech explosive devices invented by self-important monkey-cousins who generally can't even *swim*. 😅😶
Foresterfun fact, the US military maintains and employs many aquatic non human mammalians.
thenextguyBecause they want a fucking truce. Leave them alone.
Greg ClarkeOrcas have never given me anything! Why don’t they like me? Is it because I pooped in the ocean that one time?
They're paying tribute
So..they’re researching us?
After humans have been genociding them and jamming their frequencies, their instinct in research is to gift humans food
The wolves of the seas. Ten thousand years from now, everyone will have a pet killer whale.
That's ridiculous. We won't have oceans that far in the future.
The only time orcas see humans is when we’re flailing practically helplessly in the water—they’re probably trying to save us from extinction.
I think it could actually be more like the "horse's head in the bed" warning from the God Father.
Whales and dolphins have speech, too.
We absolutely should be working harder on building a translation imo
Has anyone tried playing fetch?
probably bait to lure more humans into the water 😆
Game recognizes game.