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u/IchBinEinSim 12h ago
Orcas are only mildly scary due to their size and placement as a apex predator but its mostly cancelled out by the fact that wild orcas have never been known to attack or harm humans and have actually protected humans on tens of dozens of occasion. Which is funny considering we have been known to protect their prey from them, like they do with a great white lol.
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u/Character-Q 11h ago
I have a theory that orcas are somehow aware that we are at the top of the food chain in this world, hence why they don’t attack.
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u/Traditional-Music363 11h ago
I have a theory that they are more spiritually evolved than humans
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u/Late-Application-47 9h ago
The old time shrimpers I grew up around in Coastal GA believe that about Porpoises and Dolphins. It's considered bad luck to refer to them as anything other than "fisherman," out of respect for them sharing their hunting grounds.
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u/Additional_Bank_2124 11h ago
Have you seen the way they torture and play with their food? I dont think so
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u/Bigchunky_Boy 6h ago
100% I have been around or as for many years watched them killing many creatures, I have had very close encounters a couple feet away. I think our small brains can’t understand that each one could be different with very different personalities and perspectives on prey whether they play with their food or investigate it .
If you want to get in the water with them go right ahead I will take a pass .1
u/perfect_insanity93 10h ago
Damn.. I wish I had that kind of blind faith in humanity. but I have seen far to much..
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u/Character-Q 10h ago
IDK about that I just saw a video of one slapping a pregnant sting Ray so hard it ruptured its stomach and… well I’ll end it there. Point is orcas have been known to “torture” and kill animals for seemingly no reason, sometimes they don’t even eat them. Scientists are still trying to figure them out so we’ll just have to wait for an answer. Still fascinating animals nonetheless and definitely not as cruel as some of the crueler humans out there.
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u/XExcavalierX 5h ago
For that specific video, I read that the orcas were hunting the school of rays for food, and orcas also risk dying to their stings.
Smacking it hard enough so they are disorientated is a hunting strategy, not cruelty. The orcas probably didn’t know that specific ray was pregnant too.
Not saying that they can’t be cruel on other occasions, to be clear.
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u/OneDimensionalChess 55m ago
Orcas engage in creative play which is a sign of intelligence which is probably what they were doing. They like to play volleyball w fish sometimes
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u/OneDimensionalChess 57m ago
They're just picky eaters and have better vision than sharks who often test things out by biting first
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u/lollipop1233a 11h ago
Orcas have been known to follow fishing boats. So they probably associate humans with food, but they also probably don’t view us as food. After all, if you eat the human, then they won’t be able to show you where the all you can eat buffet is.
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u/NoViolinist6623 11h ago
Orca never hunt humans in the wild
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u/UnderstandingTop1579 10h ago
Oh my word please stop saying this absolute twoddle. They will eventually eat someone in the wild if they haven’t already. They cunt seals miles into the air for a laugh, they will certainty do the same to a person.
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u/Roguescholar74 10h ago
I mean sorry if you don’t want to hear it but there’s never been a documented case of them hurting a human in the wild. And there’s even evidence of them working with humans to accomplish a cooperative goal.
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u/UnderstandingTop1579 10h ago
They hurt someone in 1972 in the wild soooooo there is that. Hans Kretschmer. Sorry if you don’t want to hear it
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u/Roguescholar74 9h ago
Yeah that’s not proven. In fact after a forensic review that attack has actually been reclassified as a shark attack and updated in the incident logs of the global shark attack file.
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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 7h ago
It was an orca attack with witnesses.
The iffy part is that he wore a black wetsuit and was surfing among sea lions.
Like all near misses. It’s always been mistaken identity
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u/Roguescholar74 7h ago
I dunno what to tell you. Forensic investigators examined his wounds (bite patterns consistent with sharks) and determined from the way the attack was reported (bite and release common to sharks not orcas) that it was a shark attack.
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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 7h ago
Oh well. I stand corrected.
And anything that’ll put this understandingtop guy back in his box is a win.
Thanks for the new information.
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u/UnderstandingTop1579 2h ago
There’s major defence issues for killer whales, it baffles me why you lot are so protective. They kill things for lols, what makes you truly think they wouldn’t do it to a human, mistaken identity or not. Poke the bear enough and someone is going down, literally!
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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 1h ago
There’s a difference between poking the bear and being in the same vicinity observing.
There are no defence issues. It’s simple observation. There’s been no recorded wild attack on humans. Those cases you try and use as a gotcha have been confirmed as either another animal attacking, or mistaken identity.
Did an orca eat your pet fish or something? You seem to have a rage Bonner for the big black and White Sea buffaloes
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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 7h ago
“Because Kretschmer was wearing a black wetsuit and several sea lions were spotted in the area where the encounter took place, experts believe it was a case of mistaken identity.”
I notice you conveniently left out this part of the story.
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u/OneDimensionalChess 52m ago
Wrong. Did your wife leave you for an orca? You're hell bent on proving something that there's no proof of lol
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u/UnderstandingTop1579 11m ago
Right. Google it. I’m not hell bent at all, it’s common sense that the most apex predator of all would toy with us for a good laugh, when the right opportunity comes along. If you seriously think you’re forever safe swimming with them then you’re deluded.
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u/Dub_Coast 10h ago
Well, they probably had in the long past and found out we taste like shit in comparison. Most everything Orcas will eat in the ocean has tons of fats and nutrients. We're relatively bony and low-fat in comparison to seal, so they've probably just communicated through the ages that we're a shit food item and may cause other humans to become aggressive when attacked, so it's a lose-lose situation to attack us. Idk though I'm just stoned and tossing an educated guess out there
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u/BlunderedPotential 10h ago
I think this holds enough water. I've been stoned a lot in my life, but I'm not right now. So there's that.
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u/UnderstandingTop1579 10h ago
I don’t think they want to eat us, but they love to play and have major sadistic tendencies. They’re natures warning colours too, it’s a sign! It’ll be a matter of time
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u/killtostayalive 53m ago
They are specialist hunters. ‘Killer whales’. They spend whole lifetimes hunting and eating a very specific prey and rarely deviate. Liver of seal or tongue of dolphin or whatever. Humans just don’t qualify
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u/DopedScope338 11h ago
There are a bunch or orcas that show up off the coast of Baja in summer every year where I have my little vacation casita. I've been snorkling and diving with them around and they clearly don't regard us as anything but a novelty/curiosity. The only danger would be because they are simply so large that they could hurt a person accidentally while being playful or curious.
I had one swim past me once and catch my leg with a flick of its fluke and the power in that casual little flick was pretty incredible. I actually had small red petechiae over a good sized patch of my thigh where the little blood vessels had ruptured from the impact. It was just the tiniest of tail flicks as it casually swam past. Incredible, beautiful creatures with awesome size and power, but nothing to fear in the way this video suggests.
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u/NJCZSIGSHOTGUNLOVER 12h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/S2LcFEiZKdSElcxTTu
It’s millions of things to be scared of lol
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u/whineyinternetkid 8h ago
Orcas dont care about humans. This is dumb. There are actual things to be scared of in the ocean also.
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u/Still_Selection8719 11h ago
“Thalassophobia is a specific phobia characterized by a persistent, intense, and irrational fear of deep or vast bodies of water, such as the ocean, sea, or large lakes.”
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u/PercentageNice7131 5h ago
Fun Fact: orcas can even adapt 'fads' that they participate in and spread around their communities. The most notable being that they used to wear dead salmon as hats. For no scientific or useful reason at all. They either thought it was cool, or funny.
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u/Evening-Animal-4820 11h ago
my dads a scuba diver and remember the first time taking me snorkeling, sharks everywhere. he said there not going to bother you just curious and would go get a sea urchin to cut up and attract more fish and sharks. never been near a killer whale tho lol. if you've been swimming in the ocean you had a shark swim past you at some point.
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u/mologav 11h ago
No I wouldn’t have had a shark near me at some point, not where I live in Ireland.
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u/Evening-Animal-4820 11h ago
you have Angel sharks and spurdogs rhat are on yiur coast lines, fished on coastlines and are in the threshold of 15-30' off a coastline were you would be fishing. theres several more but do you think theres no sharks on your coastline right off shore? the only place in the world without shore fishing and sharks is Ireland? when theres even a Ireland shark?
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u/Evening-Animal-4820 11h ago
Search instead for ireland costal shark attack AI Overview A 27-year-old fisherman named Sebastian Achim was bitten on the leg by a blue shark on August 11, 2026, off the coast of County Waterford, Ireland.
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u/mologav 10h ago
Yeah blue sharks are common offshore, but they are deep. The guy fishing was shark fishing at the time and not close to land. I don’t go in the water offshore so why would I have a shark swimming by me?
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u/Evening-Animal-4820 10h ago
bro he got bitten on shore not off shore and all my examples are on shore. off shore theres 10x the amount of sharks. then I say swimming and you go dingy racing offshore 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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u/mologav 10h ago
You’ve lost me.
The fisherman got bitten 4 miles offshore.
I never said I sail offshore, I sail inshore.
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u/Evening-Animal-4820 10h ago
ok even with that then your telling me theres not spur dogs, dog fish, bull hus and even tope off your coast that fisherman catch but there not there? go with just this statement and ignore the rest. were talking sharks on a coastline were you would be swimming or shore cast fishing.
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u/Kiki1701 11h ago
There is literally no record of an orca intentionally harming a human in the wild (directly harming us; we're not talking about boats)
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u/bellefeuille1976 10h ago
It’s hard to believe that something that’s looks like big teddy bear will kill something that is one of the deadliest things on earth. I love ❤️ Orcas
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u/nickyler 10h ago
We don’t have those in the southeastern US but if we did we’d say “come here to me!”
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u/Excellent-Age-296 6h ago
He's actually safe at that spot, because no shark is hunting him while orcas are hanging around.
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u/Accurate_Mongoose_26 4h ago edited 3h ago
(Yes I know they aren't documented of attacking humans but just seeing that is still a hell no for. I have this some what of a fear of the possibility something larger then that orca just swim directly up towards me and eats me whole. Another thing is. I'm only floating because of the water but what if that water disappears and I'm falling down into this pit)
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u/BlunderedPotential 12h ago
One of many times I'm grateful to already be on the toilet.