Science

Orcas almost never attack humans, as to be essentially anecdotal, and most of the times attributed to error. The attacks on boats have often ended in the crews bailing out and ignored by the orcas, who were clearly attacking the boats, not the humans.

Woa. I had first read "Orcas feed ON people" and was like..... And then I read it again and all was good

For some reason...I find this wildly depressing.

I can't quite figure out how to word it... but these magnificent, highly intelligent, apparently compassionate creatures are offering us food and we're just...

gestures vaguely at the world

this.

Orcas make the best news headlines. Change my mind

You know shits bad when even the wild animals are like, "here, have this salmon. You look hungry."

They had a screening of Free Willy and changed their minds.

Thanks for all the fish, but... Y'all need to eat somethin', honey.

I don't blame the orcas - have you seen a human? Those things are, like, 1/3 of the size of an orca; they're clearly malnourished, some good ol' seal meat will fix'em up real good!

Serious now. I think it's interesting how they're interacting cooperatively, with an animal of a different species. And it isn't like either side domesticated the other (unlike, say, humans vs. dogs and cats); they don't even live in the same environments, at most you have some humans doing short trips into the sea and that's it.

“What I think in a sense is more impressive is that humans basically give no credit to any other creature for having a mind,” Safina said. Yet many other creatures, including orcas, understand implicitly that humans have minds. “So they understand us, and give us more credit there, they seem to comprehend the world better than we do, in our self-imposed estrangement.”

I feel like this is a step beyond theory of mind already.