Orcas are persevering with to confront yachts and fishing boats, leaving scientists with extra questions than solutions and plenty of on social media rooting for what they see because the killer whale revolution. However is that this actually a case of nature combating again towards people?
Since 2020, teams of orca whales have been colliding with boats in waters primarily off the coasts of Portugal and Spain. Most encounters have been innocent however the ones producing headlines have been described as aggressive, coordinated “assaults” the place orcas repeatedly ram the perimeters of boats or chunk off whole ship rudders.
Such incidents are up from 52 in 2020 to greater than 200 final 12 months, and three boats have been sunk by orcas, in keeping with the Atlantic Orca Working Group. Different ramming incidents have been reported off the coast of France and extra lately off the coast of Shetland within the North Sea.
Orcas are extremely smart and social animals that journey collectively in pods. Though they’re usually known as “killer whales”, scientists emphasise that orcas are usually not recognized to hunt people. Some researchers assume one whale could also be instructing fellow whales a behavioural fad that is spreading to different pods. The confrontations may maybe be resulting from overfishing, elevated boat visitors or different invasive human actions. Different scientists assume boat ramming is probably a misunderstood show of adolescent playfulness.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll hear extra about orcas and their current encounters with people.
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