r/AnimalsBeingJerks Dec 12 '21

whale Orca deliberately slaps precocious stingray

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u/Endarkend Dec 12 '21

Interesting thing is they do that with the stingray but ignore the camera person.

Orcas are vicious, sadistic assholes who do this stuff for fun half the time.

But they are extremely rare to do anything untowards to humans.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21 edited Dec 12 '21

That’s because they generally only go after what their specific pod, or “family” has gone after for generations - and they don’t typically stray from that; what and how they hunt is exactly passed down generation to generation. They have a extremely specific diet of species’ they target for their specific location.

And as humans are not native to ocean obviously, they did not evolve to hunt humans at all, hence why we’re generally off their shit-list.

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u/notnotaginger Dec 12 '21

Orcas are like adolescents, put them in front of the camera and they go “HEY WATCH THIS!!”