Aikana'Ro
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Aikana'Ro
@Azurahson
Chef, dessert lover, nerd, gamer, kink friendly, primal
Melbourne, Victoria Bergabung Ağustos 2014
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Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.
An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.
The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.
In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.
Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.
In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.
I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.
Nature is Amazing ☘️@AMAZlNGNATURE
One of the biggest mysteries to me is how Orcas, the ocean’s most efficient predators, have never attacked humans in the wild… almost like they know something we don’t.
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@becca_may33 But if the giver is under the blanket they can’t see the receiver’s face
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every blanket is a blowjob blanket this product ain’t shit
𓅃 UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance@FalconryFinance
what the fuck is this product actually for is this a blowjob blanket
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@DarlingMoriVT That is a very sexy 2D model, but lord, your figure is heavenly 😍
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@deadpananne When I rewatch it’s crazy to me how he admits this early on, so they weren’t ever really trying to make him sympathetic, he needed his family to know that he was the source of the money
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The worst part is Skyler got the money for his cancer treatment in episode 1 but Walter turned it down and felt emasculated. It was never about the money and cancer that was the point of the show
Colin McLaughlin@colinthecrabb
Imagine not seeing your tv dad for 25 years and when you do you try to spread the tired manosphere talking points he’s been putting up with since 2008
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Did you know Lickitung has a photographic memory? (Well kind of)
Lickitung's tongue is not just for combat, it's also how it logs things into its memory. The Pokédex says that once it tastes you, it will never forget your exact flavor for the rest of its life.
Some people have a photographic memory, but Lickitung has photographic taste. If it were to encounter a person 10 years down the line, it would instantly remember them after just one lick.
What do you think about Lickitung? Would this be an interesting superpower?
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@Kitten34Mae But pent up will make is so much sexier when you can finally release it 🥵
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My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
BerryVerrine ⬛︎6月〜の絵仕事募集中！@berryverrine
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
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@esjesjesj “Got to break some eggs to make an omelette” is literally the foundation of all evil characters across all works of human storytelling
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He has never understood a single piece of science fiction and is literally the bad guy in all the sci fi he loves
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@LizKatzOfficial One of my favourite “creating your own villain” stories!
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The original Sony PlayStation almost wasn’t a Sony console at all… it started as a secret collaboration with Nintendo. 🎮
Sony was originally helping Nintendo build a CD-based add-on for the Super Nintendo. But in a plot twist worthy of a boss battle, Nintendo abruptly backed out and partnered with Philips instead… publicly. Sony was left standing there like, “oh… it’s like that?”
So Sony took their tech, went rogue, and created the PlayStation as a standalone console. 💁🏻♀️
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@rosemarysboobys By the time there’s an eclair to be had I’ll already be full so it’s all yours to have, but if you insist I will eat
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Shower, sex, food.
Shower should always be before sex, and food should never be, if you want the sex to be any fun.
♡@Elsie_560
Which is the correct order?
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@SmallPyromancer When I first played I thought Renoir looked like Gustav, so when the masked girl appeared I thought there was an older version of all the main expeditioners and there’d be some time travel component
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my theory is the mask girl is actually Alicia and somehow maelle is also Alicia because maelle looks so much like mask girl man
elf yearner@SmallPyromancer
e33 spoilers verso wdym Alicia why did you call maelle that
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