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Authorities recommend caution to navigators after several incidents have been reported in May between small ships and orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar, while the aggressive behavior of the orcas remains unexplained.
Source: https://jalopnik.com/killer-whale-orca-yacht-attack-20th-in-one-month-1850510399
Authorities recommend caution to navigators after several incidents have been reported in May between small ships and orcas in the Strait of Gibraltar, while the aggressive behavior of the orcas remains unexplained.
Source: https://jalopnik.com/killer-whale-orca-yacht-attack-20th-in-one-month-1850510399
Both native Northwest species are endangered, and a unique private-public partnership hopes that by saving orcas and salmon, they can preserve local ecosystems, Tribal treaty rights, Indigenous culture, and local fishing.
Dorsal fins can be seen breaking the surface as the orcas make a beeline for the shark - with one witness declaring: "That shark is scared."
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/killer-whales-swarm-chase-great-31618812
Footage shows orcas repeatedly targeting boat rudders in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2023/05/26/orcas-boat-attacks-whales/
Invited to suggest his own hypothesis for the strange attacks, which were first noted three years ago, Dr De Stephanis, who has spent 27 years observing these orcas, said he was prepared to explore them all, however outlandish they might seem.
Jamie said: "Despite all the suffering there were beautiful moments - being followed by penguins, whales, orcas and seeing enormous icebergs the size of towns."
Most orcas seen off California are spotted near Monterey or farther up the coast, Askari said.
Nuria Riera, an artist who lives in Tarifa on the southern Spanish coast, and who volunteers with the conservation and whale-watching organisation Firmm, says the language that has been used to describe the orcas' behaviour is simply unfair.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66384045?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Second, beware the comrade orcas.
Source: https://jezebel.com/solidarity-orcas-are-sinking-the-rich-1850470136
The event was sponsored by the Edmonds Marsh Estuary Advocates, an environmental organization made up of local volunteers who are concerned about the condition of the Edmonds Marsh and its potential to support orcas and salmon.
Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/life/edmonds-marsh-painting-contest-winners-announced/
The Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF) said "the prohibition of the active approach to groups of orcas by maritime tourist vessels," was now in place.
Their appearance Monday “was when they were going up the coast,” Askari said, adding that subsequent reports indicated the orcas were headed back south.
Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-14/palos-verdes-peninsula-orcas-sighting
The lucky folks aboard a Monterey Bay Whale Watch tour encountered 30 orcas who were apparently working off the calories following a lavish sea lion buffet.
Source: https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.8/humor-orcas-insects-and-other-roadside-attractions
The Lummi Nation, a Native American tribe based in Washington state, refers to orcas as тАЬqwe ‘lhol mechen,тАЭ which means тАЬour relations below the waves.
The pod of eight orcas included one called Splitfin, because of its distinctive fin, which had also sighted off Eden in 2009.
There are other kinds of behaviour that do appear to bring rewards – for example, captive orcas learning to regurgitate fish to use as bait for gulls, which they apparently prefer to eat over the fish.
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/29/why-are-killer-whales-attacking-boats-18860619/
There were at least 30 individual orcas known that collaborated with the Eden whalers from 1840 to 1930.
Three orcas, the large black-and-white dolphins also known as killer whales, worked in tandem; a large orca rammed the boat from the side while two smaller ones gnawed at the rudder until it was destroyed and the yacht was taking on water.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-of-the-orca
While orcas are considered the apex predator of the ocean, there's no record of one ever killing a human in the wild.