Gladis is latin for 'sword.' There's a militia of a dozen angry boat-sinking orcas with a badass SpecOps nickname, preying on the material resources of the yachting class.
When do we post this one to wholesome news?
Good orcas
My spirit animals.
Nature is healing
Evolution adapts to multiple problems at once.
A pod of orcas that vigorously defend their food supply, get to eat, and train their offspring to also defend their food supplies.
Orcas that don't, either die off, or adapt to a different food source.
Thus why climate change is becoming a problem as nature is adapting to food sources becoming less abundant.
and wildlife becoming unfriendly or inedible to adapt to the changes.
I hate it when wildlife becomes inedible
Can confirm, this wildlife is not sitting well.
My only worry with this is that we start hunting them to eradicate or at least contain a threat, like we do to most wild animals who could potentially, perhaps, maybe, harm a human intruding on their habitat and territory. Like wolves in europe, we carefully reintroduce them after almost eradicating them entirely, they do what wolves do and prey on some livestock here and there, and people immediately ask for them to be culled.
We have likely killed most of their normal food sources
That's basically the intro from The Swarm
Theory that just poped in my mind, orcas have been hurt by large boat are now attacking small ones to kill them before they grow.
There is a theory I read that said that it was indeed a boat that accidentally killed a female's infant. She attacked and figured out that hitting the rudder would make them stop and then she proceeded to teach the pod.
Another I read was that it started as juvenile Orcas just fucking about and now it's turned into a preferred pastime. AKA, Orca hooligans.
Both seem anecdotal and not scientifically provable though.
The play thing seems to be the favored hypothesis by biologists at present.
And I kind of love it. Rich people lose their boats because orcas think they're fun to sink.
The owner's of a 49ft sail boat isn't exactly the kind of "rich" that needs to be targeted.
While whale watching in Sea of Cortez, they were saying one small pod of juvenile orcas are straight up dicks. They will attack anything and everything, including taking down blue whales.
I can absolutely see this as hooliganism.
juvenile Orcas just fucking about
Youths
Y00tz
Was there any evidence of any of those or are those theories just fanfic?
They were able to trace the start of the behavior down to a single female. All the pods that are doing this are related to her. The "why" did they start is the mystery.
Eat the rich.
Ew. Junk food worse than McDonald’s.
Team Orca
We should arm the orcas.
... with frickin laser beams attached to their heads!
They have acquired the taste for the sweetest of man-flesh.
I wish them well on their hunt.
From all the reports I've seen so far, they are in fact not attacking humans, just the boats. Unless this has changed.
too bad. I thought they were literally eating the rich
Give them time. They haven't figured out how to open the can yet.
I just read that as well. Or there's just no witnesses. Also read something that they stop attacking if the boat stops.
Well I'm interested in this world (sailing/ living on a sailboat) so I've been following fairly close. I don't believe there's any known non aggressive way to stop them. Stopping hasn't been shown to help that I've heard/seen
The orcas gave us enough time bring down the bourgeoisie. Now they're taking things into their own flippers.
A 49ft sail boat is not exactly a yacht. The orcas need to move up to bigger targets like the mega yachts of the oligarchs. Time to arm the orcas.
There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use. To be termed a yacht, as opposed to a boat, such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and may have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht
That said, I'm all for training and arming the cetaceans.
The vessel, Alboran Cognac, [...] encountered the highly social apex predators
The highly social orcas were clearly aware that the only true Cognac comes from the Atlantic coast, not the Alboran Sea.
underwater castle doctrine
Save the whales has regularly been my own personal credo. Who knew it was the whales that would save us.
Arm The Whales!
We need to make them metal armor with Naval Rams on them.
Good praxis
LOL nice
A theory I read about the genesis of these attacks reads a lot like the plot of that terrible 1970's B-movie. It sounded far fetched TBH.
Based orcas
lmao
Welp, it's been nice knowing ya orcas. See you in the extinct animals wiki
How did they manage to break the hull?
According to the Cruising Association, three yachts were sunk in 2022 and 2023 after orca interactions. As Fantini says, breaking the rudder completely can open a hole, and water can rush in, sinking the boat. Even those sailing in sturdy racing boats, with back-up rudders and rescue services close by, can find the experience frightening.
There's a video on the source page of the orcas banging against the rudder. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230626-why-are-orcas-suddenly-ramming-boats
I'm guessing fiberglass not a steel hull. So ramming it with the momentum of a small whale would delaminate or crack it.
That’s why im surprised. The laminate on those boats is pretty damn thick. It takes a lot of force to break it. Blunt meat impacts don’t sound like enough but maybe at this scale it is.
Fucking yeet
Hahaha
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