@larissabrglum3856
A few years ago adolescent Hawaiian monk seals are snorting eels and getting them stuck in their noses and scientists came to a similar conclusion
@jeffreywilliams3421
I fully support our glorious Orcan overlords
@edwebb6063
Have the orcas been sinking large luxury yachts? Those huge yachts don’t even have rudders for the whales to play with. The orcas have been sinking sailboats which don’t pollute much at all. Unfortunately, billionaires are not interested in sailboats, so the orcas haven’t been causing them much trouble at all.
@AllTheHappySquirrels
I love the thought of orcan teenagers destroying billionaires' yachts screaming "it's not a phase, mom!"
@davepubliday6410
The orcas are not attacking super yachts. They are often attacking small sailboats and such. Sailboats can be a very green way to travel.
@jed7644
There’s absolutely no relationship between anything at all like a super yacht & Iberian orca attacks. Vulnerable vessels are far more modest sailboats, usually a class of boat that’s easily handled by a couple - professional crew not req’d. In a handful of cases the vessel attacked was a powered fishing vessel, or a sailboat operating under power, but most have been relatively modest vessels running under sail. I say relatively modest because they ain’t cheap & their owners are well off, but they’re not the billionaires w/ climate crushing super yachts alluded to in your opening. On the contrary, we’re talking about sailboats that are worth what a very typical suburban home is worth, & that can sustain months off grid using little or no fossil fuels at all. So if you don’t mind my saying so you’re conflating apple seeds, or the mere potential for an apple w/ endless rivers of apple brandy. I have a recently inherited home to dispose of. In the end I’ll sell it for a mid six-figure number, or a little more if I choose to invest a little & maximize it’s market value. I’ve been suggesting that I’ll then go to Disneyland, the rough idea being to hand a stack of notebooks to the 7 dwarves, then show Snow White what all she’s been missing in life, or some other similarly crazy adventure that I’d never put my own money into. Maybe something involving rail cars full of Skittles or some similarly prudent thing. Buying Orca bait & putting it in the Strait of Gibraltar will be just one do-able option, with substantially less than $1M.
@newfization
The orcas aren't attacking luxury yachts. They're tearing the rudders off small sail boats, often damaging the hull. The billionaires are just fine.
@colinwilson7710
I'm utterly baffled as to what billionaire superyachts have to do with this. The attacks have been on (usually small) sailing yachts, which may be owned by people with more than average income, but usually not by billionaires. The orcas don't have the ability to damage huge 70m superyachts, so it's up to us humans to do something about their polution.
@MP-db9sw
Orcas attacking the stupidly rich would be my favorite thing ever if I didnt know what happens to pretty much anything that attacks the stupidly rich.
@rf159a
"So long and thanks for all of the fish."
@Eric14492
The orcas are not attacking billionaire’s mega yachts. They are not even attacking millionaire’s large yachts. They are attacking small sailboats. According to the paper you quoted, 80% of boats attacked were sailboats under 12m, or 40 ft. Most sailboats this size cost between $10,000 and $50,000, or the price of a car. The owners are middle-class to upper-middle class. Since they are sailboats, they are mainly propelled by the wind and have minimal carbon emissions. Most sailboats rarely use their engines.
@maramé.r
Most of the reported attacks however are against small sailboats, rather than large motor ‘yachts’, mostly the damage is to those made from plastics
@flux.aeterna
Literally cow tipping for orcas
@meikgeik
"Boat" is accurate. They are mostly attacking small sailing vessels under 35 feet long owned by middle class people, not billionaires. There's just this weird trend in Europe to call every sailboat a "yacht." There's youtube channels of people who scraped together money to sail the world on a shitty little 30-35 foot sailboat and they got attacked by the whales. I wish they were actually fucking with wealthy people's boats, but that does not appear to be the case for the most part.
@tomfoolery-4444
If the orcas are ramming the yachts out of boredom, that's self expression and legally qualifies the activity as art!
@larissabrglum3856
So it's basically like in Finding Nemo when they "touch the butt"
@MMuraseofSandvich
Re: Boat v. ship Until rich people start using their yachts in a way that is far more productive to all of humanity than mere self-entertainment, they should always be called "dinghies" or "rafts for small people".
@Erideah
I love the idea that orcas have the dead salmon hat meme and the sabotage billionaire yacht meme. Objectively better memes than the human average
@joaonorberto6282
If a boat is small enough for an Orca to cause it serious harm, its owner is not gonna be a billionaire it most likely wont even be a millionaire....
@jacobl2222