politics

There's many cultures of orcas with wildly different documented hunting practices. I honestly feel like you can't generalize orcas in the same way you can't generalize humans, e.g. blanket statements about human nature as evil because of the actions of some cultures

It's even more complicated when you consider they have literal sub-species, such as Transient Orcas (mammal-eating) and Resident Orcas (fish-eating), with the latter usually being more social, empathetic, & tight-knit. Residents and Transients tend to steer clear of each other and have unspoken beef, with some Transient pods occasionally kidnapping & eating calves from Residents when no one's looking. Even among Transients, some pods regularly cruelly play with whales or seals, while other pods don't appear to do anything of the sort