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Katılım Eylül 2014
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
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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Le doigt-bite de Boris Vallaud
Le doigt-bite de Boris Vallaud@QuintuplePote·
Svp lisez la bio mdrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Laurent de Béchade@LaurentDBE

C’est confirmé, des poursuites pénales sont actuellement envisagées par le gouvernement pour les propos tenus sur CNews visant le maire de Saint-Denis. Que le nouveau maire LFI @BallyBagayoko adopte une posture victimaire, cela n’étonne personne. En revanche, que le gouvernement s’engouffre dans cette polémique, en instrumentalisant le combat antiraciste à son avantage, c’est vraiment malsain et immoral.

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Clémence Guetté
Clémence Guetté@Clemence_Guette·
Le détroit d'Ormuz est toujours bloqué. Partout en France, le litre dépasse 2 euros à la pompe. Le gouvernement et le RN refusent toujours de bloquer les prix du carburant. Pourquoi ? Parce que pour une fois, ça ne serait ni à l'Etat ni aux Français de payer, mais aux multinationales. Hasard de l'histoire : 14 députés de la majorité Lecornu sont actionnaires de Total. RN, LR, Macronistes, PS : ils préfèrent protèger leurs intérets.
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Muslim
Muslim@Muslim·
🇮🇩 Eid prayers in Indonesia was full of COLOR! MashaAllah
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guppies!
guppies!@guppiesz·
i was just trying to move Gyarados from his tiny little pond yall wtfffff
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Luna M
Luna M@tiredfeminist_·
The Corgi was the one leading them home The German Shepherd was injured The dogs kept a protective formation around the German Shepherd The Corgi stopped often to make sure they were still okay It took them 2 days to get home They are neighbourhood friends I’m going to cry😭😭😭
Dexerto@Dexerto

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping their captors and making their way home The group is believed to have travelled around 17 km together led by a corgi across highways and fields

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