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[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah capitalists separated orcas from their loved ones to imprison them in a fucking swimming pool, and then acted shocked when a couple seaworld trainers got mauled. Not a single non-captive orca has killed a human: divers actually regularly swim with them (and there's several cases of orcas charging at distant lone swimmers before turning away when they see it's a human)

There's videos of them uncannily mimicking human words to seemingly attempt communication, as well as offering us gifts of their captured prey, and even seaweed after we refused all the meat

They also seem to have a pretty good idea that humans have diverse morals and practices. They distinguish individual humans as well as larger groups, and the matriarchs seem to remember and pass a library of information across generations. Historically, they knew to recognize and flee from settler Japanese and the Europeans who hunted them, while maintaining proximity to indigenous Japanese Ainu and certain Native Americans, who revered orcas and developed a symbiotic hunting relationship (and believed to have a deep spiritual friendship with them)

At the peak of orca hunting, they adapted extremely quick by sharing knowledge across pods, such as the locations of boats containing hostile cultures of humans, as well as evasion strategies. We found out that they literally figured out sailboats moved in the direction of the wind, and that they just needed to feel the wind and migrate the opposite way of that.