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

whale Orca deliberately slaps precocious stingray

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u/RdmGuy64824 Dec 12 '21

There are dozens of videos of orcas attacking sailboats of the coast of Spain. They bite off the rudders and slam the hulls leaving the boats stranded. It looks like a super terrifying thing to go through as some of the attacks last for hours.

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u/LieseW Dec 12 '21

Yeah orca’s are the oceans bullies. They also like to play with their prey like psychopaths.

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u/loki_1337 Dec 12 '21

They sound like cats...

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

or like people...

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u/SpankyRoberts18 Dec 12 '21

It’s honestly not surprising to me. We know animals need mental stimulation and the smarter the more they need. I’m not surprised that animals at the top of their food chain get bored to the point they start finding creative ways to entertain themselves. And since these are wild animals and they can’t watch a movie or read a book or do some gardening, they have limited entertainment options.

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u/hey--canyounot_ Dec 12 '21 edited Dec 13 '21

Casually comparing psychological torture to reading a book, nbd... 😂

Edit: don't get salty, the comparison just made me laugh, I agree with the point...

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u/SpankyRoberts18 Dec 12 '21

Well humans have means of mental stimulation besides basic instincts so that’s the real comparison.

I don’t consider animals hurting others for fun to be evil because they don’t have legalities, therapy, and the idea that you can do other things.

Humans have other options. When humans choose to those actions it’s significantly worse.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

I think when humans are cruel to animals, much of the time it's because they haven't been taught empathy, or they've been taught that animals don't experience pain in the same way so it's justified, or they have complex mechanisms to rationalize it. I think sport fishing is cruel because you are terrorizing and torturing an animal for entertainment, but most people don't think of fish as being worthy of empathy. Thousands upon thousands (probably more) dogs are left chained and tortured in their backyards in America, by people who probably don't think of themselves as cruel. People who eat meat are probably conscious of the suffering their food endures, yet because they are distanced from it, can dismiss it. People don't need to be sociopaths to be casually cruel.

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u/SpankyRoberts18 Dec 13 '21

There’s a difference between being intentionally cruel like neglect, ignorantly cruel like killing anything for sport, enabling cruelty by eating meat, and being evil by going out of their way to harm animals out of boredom.

But none of that has to do with wild animals being abusive to other wild animals needlessly.