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@aakashgupta That makes holding them in captivity somehow EVEN WORSE.
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Orcas have brain structures you don't have.
Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.
Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.
When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.
Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.
Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.
Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.
That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.
Latest in Culture@latestinculture
Something about Orcas watching you is deeply unsettling.
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Just imagine how much better this show would be if they kept these animators
GIL👳🏽♂️🍿@Alhaji_dubaa
Atom Eve was moving mad in season 2,now she’s just a depressed girl walking
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Isn’t it crazy that we live in a world where pedophiles do not fear admitting publicly that they are pedophiles?
TMZ@TMZ
Russell Brand says he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30. 😬 tmz.me/OhxjuOu Credit: The Megyn Kelly Show
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That’s true, and not just in the Epstein files. White people ate Black people during slavery. It’s a fact, and it’s not taught in schools for obvious reasons.
XiaoLongBao@XLB_God
Chinese kids think Americans eat people because of Epstein lmao
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As long as it’s AI, My art beats it.

Aesthetics 𝕏@aestheticsguyy
I dare you to beat my wallpaper 🔥
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just to let yall know i’ve been on @BaddiesHub__ before 😂
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its time for my annual catch up cuz wtf happened to my boy 😭😭🔥
Official Ordeal@OfficialOrdeal
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