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Orcas also have extremely strong matriarchal communal values, diverse cultures and practices, and complex emotions & grief rituals, with a whole new brain region we don't have but is assumed to be for higher-level emotional/social processing

We assume lack of civilization and invention = lack of capacity, but you can't build without opposable thumbs (or make fire underwater), and maybe they don't see the point in overcomplicating shit in the first place. Orcas tend to live long lives and rarely die from starvation, and starvation has only become somewhat common due to human overfishing, overhunting, and chemical waste. Modern humans under capitalist overindulgence wreak havoc to everyone's food chain, including our own.. Meanwhile different orca communities go for different foods, almost in a shared agreement type way to intricately balance their ecosystem and reduce tribal competition