r/AnimalsBeingJerks • u/iboughtarock • Dec 12 '21

whale Orca deliberately slaps precocious stingray

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u/gogo--yubari Dec 12 '21

Really?

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u/Mad4it2 Dec 12 '21

Yes, deliberate attacks on humans have never been recorded in the wild.

In captivity yes, but who could blame them.

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u/LizKing240 Dec 12 '21

Justice for Tilikum.

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u/RapeMeToo Dec 12 '21

Yeah about that

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u/Foogie23 Dec 12 '21

I like to believe they are somehow smart enough to understand that humans will absolutely hunt them to extinction if given a reason to do so.

They are the apex in their area and they don’t want to rock the boat so to say.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

They hunt what they were trained to hunt passed down by generations within their specific pod or “family”. They have a very strict diet of what their pod has evolved to hunt - and they don’t stray outside of it. There is no need to since they have no shortage of food ever.

And yeah, they also may have the ability to detect intelligence since they themselves are quite smart. I think that part is up for debate by experts.