The Insane Biology of: The Orca

YEAH!!

communicating with gorillas was such a big break through.

"YES...I can understand you!" - human
"Great...now can you guys get your shit together please?" - Orca

You obviously haven’t seen the documentary, Free Willy

love that thought

I think they'd say "stay away from those parasites they're dangerous " in reference to us.

Not sure. I conpare then to like early human tribes around the world. Each orca "tribe" has their own language and own ways of doing things taught down by their elders. Sound familiar?

"So, we were reviewing the accounts, and it looks like someone is getting more fish for less work than ...."

I'm convinced they do. Sperm whales are believed to have language capacity as intricate or even more so than humans. They're hoping to create a translator one day.

I think it speaks to their intelligence that they have never been recorded in eating humans. This story is fascinating to me because he could have easily eaten you, but instead out of some strange perhaps respect or reverence for its long distant cousins decides to tell you to get out of the way/stop scaring the food. It’s a nice idea to entertain they have some very basic level of folklore/story telling they pass down. Probably deriving from a don’t eat this don’t eat that sort of perspective. A question also, did it look you in the eyes?

@hamalpov It really felt like he was looking me in the eye, because he stopped about twelve feet in front of me and was facing me for what seemed like a very long minute. He might have been using echo-location, but I couldn't hear anything, the silence seemed to make it worse, it was like he was coming to a decision. They are very intelligent. Sometimes I think they have come to an agreement not to harm humans because they know they would be persecuted if they did. Seventy years ago, it wasn't so rare that people would shoot them for fun! But there are cases of Orca ramming and sinking sailboats.

“Ey! Our seals… go away >:T”

@Funfair Ordnance Exactly!

@Charles Justice What's interesting to me is that unlike humans they never seem to act on impulse, you said that long ago humans used to shoot them for fun; while Orcas seem to have made up their minds to not attack humans and they mostly don't violate that decision (neither young or adult), even though they're known to be curious and playful.

Most often , when an orca is in captivity its because it is disabled and un able to survive on their own.
Not the case at marine land ofc .
You you released these captive beings back into the wild, they’d be dead in 2 days tops.
It would be the equivalent of throwing a disabled toddler into a suburban ghetto and expecting them to survive completely on their own.
Unfortunately, in some circumstances it is 100% necessary to keep them captive, or they will die.
Idk about you, but i rather live in a huge “tank” surrounded by nets several kilometres apart .
Protected from poachers or possible predators and often don’t even realize they are captive . Unlike at aquariums, captivity isn’t the same.
Also, more often than not
These animals are born in captivity from their parents giving birth from being raised there and have NEVER. Been out in the actual wild
Again, that would be like sending a chihuahua out to play with wolves.
They’d stand ZERO chance.

I've spent my entire life around orcas in the Puget sound
I have watched calves grow up. They come up to us when we fish.
I can't imagine keeping them captive unless they have been injured

They are normally not able to live in the wild. Shows are cool tho.

@Root_Test that must be a beautiful thing to witness

All life is made by the force.

Like she said, they’re smart af.

RETURN TO OCEAN

If I'd the choice, I'd return there too ...

Funny thing some of them now hunting seals that are trying to go to land

Too some degree, they can "see" better than us. If it didn't work really well, it wouldn't have happened so much.

@Grimble They just have better resolution, we got better refresh rate.

@tiaraguy7705 yeah, but anything over 60fps is wasted on our eyes anyway

@mybike1100 you don’t really need a refresh rate faster than that, 60fps is good enough to adequately react to stimuli, as far as all animals go, human eyesight is pretty strong, it’s only when you get to owls & hawks & other busted builds where the human eye can no longer keep up

@Just a Dummy builds 💀

doesn't surprise me. there are humans kept in crates and small rooms for the pleasure and labor of other humans. of course we'd do that to another species....

It's because those places make money which is funneled sadly into politicians.

That’s really adorable….

Well I hope you can get over the fact that an orca once spent 17 days carrying her dead calf - a dramatic saga of apparent mourning - has become a mother once again. The orca, identified by researchers as J35 and also known as Tahlequah, became a symbol in 2018 of the plight of the Southern Resident whales, which were 88 in number when they were listed as endangered in 2005 and have dwindled further since then. The birth of the new orca, which was seen for the first time by researchers on Saturday, brings the population to 73.

I love it so much lol

Maybe look into bioethics then? When I was an undergrad some 20 years ago, I was horrified by the treatment of lab mice. All mammals are wired to care for their young, Orcas are no exception there.

It's pretty sad. It's basically kidnapping someone and removing them from their family. Orcas can certainly grieve. A few years ago an orca from the Southern Resident orca population who belonged to L pod lost her calf, and she carried it's body for 17 days, almost like she was distraught and displaying her grief in a bizarrely human way.

@Kyle Englot its not bizarre, feelings arent uniquely human. It helps quite a bit evolutionarily if a mother cares about her offspring, the more complex the creature the greater the depth of their feelings. You think humans are bestowed feeling like magic but the rush off hormones to a mothers brain to make her fall in love with her baby is pure raw evolution.

I saw Blackfish right when it was released and I am still broken after hearing that . utterly sad 😭

Great comment, I'll study her delivery and practice.

Aside from the blatant mispronunciation of the scientific name of an orca within the first minute of the video……….

As a normal person, I honestly found their pace robotic, soulless, and empty of personality. I wonder if that's why.

But are you a cunning linguist?

@Daniel Fox 😂

Yup, the researchers probably know and account for this as well, it'd be weird if they don't.

It’s really not much more difficult than trying to translate between human languages and orca languages to begin with. The hardest part is even getting a foothold in translation, afterwards it becomes much easier with various dialects. We already have thousands of our own languages that vary by culture, time, and now even technology and already had to bridge that gap numerous times to translate (one of the most significant was learning how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics). The real challenge is the fact that for the first time in human history, it’s a language from an entirely different species. There’s a chance it could actually be impossible for us to comprehend whale languages and vice versa due to the drastic biological differences. We’d have this same problem trying to communicate with an alien species. If there is little to no common ground between the species then it becomes an insane task

@Clown World the interspecies thing is a big deal indeed. With humans we can point at the same object and keep repeating words for it until we have a basis of shared words to build off of. But this runs into the issue of does the apple represent "round", "red", "apple", "fruit", or "food". Additionally concepts like hunting, time, compassion, and directions may not exist in both languages meaning some words may truly be untranslatable or just very hard to convey what you mean.
Now, apply these difficulties to a 1 sided effort to learn 1 pod's language and it becomes way worse, what concepts do orcas have in their language that we don't, what do we have they don't. Can we explain the difference between "fish", "food", and "chinook salmon"? Are we even 100% they have a communication best described as a language at all vs something else? Assuming we can actually decode and talk to them, would they even be willing to talk back to us? Do we actually want to know what they will say to us? (They have every right to call us monsters)
Overall i think the effort is worth it, but I'm sure that our first true interspecies language translation attempts will be very difficult. (I believe our closest feat is teaching other primates sign language, and more generally commands to other species. But i wouldn't consider this a translation effort, more of a teaching/training effort.)

I agree. It sounds as if each tribe has their own language.

I imagine it would be akin to stepping back to Neanderthal days and expecting to get one solid language from many different tribes of them that have never even met one another.

They can learn other species' language. Captive orcas Shouka and Ulises learned bottlenose dolphin vocalizations. Wikie can copy a variety of human sounds on command. She can mimick words such as 'hello' and 'Amy,' and count to three.

@Persephone's Pomegranate That’s fascinating!

@Taxtro 😂

@Jakub Grono Orcas are mammals, not fish.

I chuckled imagining this [artificial intelligence interpreting for its human programmers the "truth" about something with serious fact checking limitations].

ai is literally the key to the future. It's supergenius at your fingertips.

Do you believe there may be some truth to the stories and oral traditions of various indigenous people throughout the Pacific Northwest and their relationship and reverence for the orcas? I've loved orcas as young as 6 and studied every book, research article, and documentary I can think of. Learning how to two orca pods are the same, there's so much variance and diversity among the various populations. Like you mentioned the northern and southern residents. Typically found in larger pods than transients, have some physical characteristics that distinguish them to those who know of those differences. Shape of dorsal fins on females, residents tend to have open lines on the saddle patch that sits directly behind the dorsal fin. I remember reading a book featuring some indigenous stories, one in particular is Natsilane known by the Haida and Tlingit people. The end of the story is quite interesting when he seeks revenge by having the orca he carved to take them to the bottom of the sea. He tells the orca to never harm a human again... And it seem at least in the wild orcas have maintained this golden rule. Captive orcas are a sad situation, but I don't blame them for lashing out in aggression and frustration when they are reduced to what they are in those environments.

@Kyle Englot Yes, I believe it. Native Americans and Canadians continue to have strong ties to the local resident pods. It's mentioned in several books - Endangered Orcas : The Story of the Southern Residents by Monika Wieland Shields, Into Great Silence : A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas by Eva Saulitis and Listening To Whales : What the Orcas Have Taught Us by Alexandra Morton are a must-read. Listening to Whales is mostly about the orca Corky and her Northern Resident relatives.

@Kyle Englot Thank you, that was lovely.

​@Kyle Englot I think all cultures of yore basically use storytelling to describe what things that they couldn't put into more scientific words.
So yes I think there is truth to them.

Yup, seen that. One of the most remarkable thing I've seen. Orcas love us. Free Willy.

That's terrifying.

@saltypork101 yup. Almost rather see a shark

@saltypork101 but at least you die quicker with orca. You get hit by a bus at 30 mph you break every bone real quick lmao. Their screams would make me shit myself though

@The Prince Of Tides they did free willy - you should read the book by the guy who ledthe effort to attempt to transition "willy" for the wild return. I won't spoil it but it is horrible. The name of the book is Killing Keiko (WIlly's actual name)

That would not surprise me. It's been known that pacific islanders have been hunting alongside Orcas for millennia and there's a famous story of a Pod of Orcas that is led by a giant Bull called Big Tom that cooperated and hunted with Whalers along time ago in Eden, Australia. They would come in and warned the Whalers that a baleen whales is coming and they actually would cruise alongside the whalers in their boat and would help them corral the baleen whales for the whalers to finish the big whales off. All they want is the tongue and then they R off lol. Orcas R awesome.

I mean, you be flat out wrong in saying this, but then you did quantify with "in their way" which means, probably no more than looking at other fish to kill them best. Then I'd say its accurate. I'd put Orcas as slightly more intelligent than wolves, but thats about it.

they needa study how to repopulate

Yeah like holy fuck. Patiently teaching their babies years in advance step by step how to do it. That takes a serious level of abstract thinking.

Just wait for an orca to do 360 no scope tail whip body slamming a fisherman boat

Lol, Orca SATs for beaching. Degree programs and shit

Different populations of orcas often hunt different prey and have hunting techniques that aren't found in any other population; they're extremely specialized and spend the first few years of their lives mastering very specific hunting techniques, and most populations are restricted to only a limited array of prey (sometimes just one species), save rare cases of dietary experimentation.

They keep that hunting technique up for a couple million years (assuming earth isn’t destroyed) they’ll be walking or galloping on land.

No different than a wolf pack grunting and howling out to each other when they hunt.

@Shawn Robeck Unless they are also using their sonar to not only hunt and send messages, but perhaps send images to each other?
Maybe even complex 3 dimensional images that represent their location in physical space, alongside their podmates and prey?
That could potentially even "animate" by being sent multiple visual messages?
And when wolf packs grunt and howl, it only tells them their location on a flat plane. Wolves cant fly, and are only on the same level everything else on land is. Its alot different when they are suspended in water, and can coordinate attacks in motion.

@Shawn Robeck How do you know? What makes it impossible?
We can send 3D images using radio waves, light waves, etc. Why cant they be sent using sound waves?
And I dont know what makes you think the whistling and clicking they make isnt sonar. Its not like they can silently send messages.

@Paul Deddens I already explained why, dreamer dude. Go re-read until it sticks bruh

Their "language" and intelligence is primitive. Its like trying to communicate with a dog. The video is making assumption that they are as intelligent as human, which is not even close. They simply don't have a need to have humanlike intelligence, so they don't have it

@Egakuro it’s not like trying to communicate with a dog, dogs convey emotions to each other , they don’t have complex communications like orcas do.

@RabbidLenny lets be real, they've achieved more than humans.

@L. King lol

@L. King Meh, if we were to compare human and orcas ~10k years ago then it's a resounding *"yes, we're equal",* but right now technology has advanced too much to be able to say that both species have accomplished the same.
This not to say orcas aren't totally awesome (they are), it's just that the agricultural and subsequent industrial revolution were/are just crazy.

@bibbr Exactly!

Obviously this doesn’t include orcas that have been held in captivity. There have been multiple trainers killed by orcas. But that isn’t much of a shock considering the damage a lifetime of solitude and imprisonment can do to an intelligent creature’s psyche

@Nicholas Wozniakfair warning, haven't watched the video yet so might just be repeating stuff. Just wanted to dump a lot of information that I've heard. Some of it might not even be true so take it with a grain of salt
An orca in captivity is basically the real life equivalent of the indominous rex in jurssaic world. Both are apex predators, both are smart enough that humans can't help but underestimate them even if we think they're smart, both would eat a smaller sibling if kept in captivity and if free willy is anything to go by, both would find a way to trick humans into letting them escape. Kill em with kindness as they say
Also from what I've heard, one of the reasons orcas don't attack humans is because they teach their younger ones that humans will repay their "kindness" doublefold. Like it's not just that they don't like human meat (although they probably don't like it anyways. But a hungry predator is a hungry predator). It's not instinct either. They KNOW not to attack humans because of the consequences. The only other race to do that is humans. Think about it. If you went into a gorilla (or whichever is the smartest monkey) enclosure or met one in the wild and the gorilla decided to attack you then it wouldn't know not to do that because of the consequences. If it has decided to attack you then it would do that. Orcas can go through all their checkmarks of whether they should kill a human and then still be smart enough to show restraint. Some animals know to save food for the winter but other than that there isn't really much care for the future. Most animals just live in the present. Even humans struggle with calculating future consequences of their actions. But Orcas haven't attacked humans once is what you said? My guess is there was probably an Orca attack or a few of them long before we kept track of them which resulted in almost the entire Orca pod being killed by humans and since then they have managed to pass down the knowledge of why not to do that. That's just my theory though
There's also the fact that Orcas will tackle whales for hours by jumping out of the water and landing on them to push them under the water and drown them. The scary thing isn't that they do something like that. The scary part is that they will even attempt to drown one in the first place since that implies it's worked for them before
Orcas are also endangered I think and there's apparently a law that says you have to turn off your boats motor when they're nearby. That means if a seal or something tries to escape by jumping onto the boat the Orcas don't even have to try to push it off, which they can as they can create waves by swimming in unison, they can just wait as the boat isn't going anywhere. And they know they can just wait
I mean, they're so efficient killers that when they kill a shark they only eat... the liver? Because it's the most nutritious. They just leave the rest since it's not as efficient. There were some guys who were doing an experiment down by mexico or something (I think). They were tracking a great white, the supposed "apex predator" of the sea. They got a call from some other research facility tracking another shark 2000(?) Kilometes away that their shark had been attacked by an Orca. Before they could even finish the call, the shark they were tracking dove to the bottom of the ocean and swam to hawaii
Orcas, whales and dolphins have a sonar. Much like a bat they can see through sound and echoes. This was probably mentioned in the video. Bats aren't big enough that you'll even notice it, dolphins sonar is something you've probably heard before (it's that squeaky clicking sound you always hear in documentaries), whales are big enough that their sonar which they use to communicate with other whales will vibrate you to death if you're too close (some studies suggest whales will actually stop using sonars if humans are nearby as they don't want to kill them), and orcas are at just the size and peak of evolution that their sonar will knock you unconscious if they point at you (I think). They use it to hunt groups of fish by paralyzing them and just gulping them down
If anyone's curious about Orcas I recommend the video by Fact Fiend with karl smallwood. That's where I got half of these small bits of knowledgr from. Also Tierzoo but you likely know that one already

Thank you for that comment. That is a topic I have been curious about.

Same reason sharks attacks happen 99.999% near the shoreline. We are terrible.. nutritionally speaking "sorry Edward kemp" 🤮 we have a very low fat content, comparatively speaking, plus Orcas are even picky about what kind of SALMON they like 🤣 they're not a species that likes to try ~new foods 😳 lmao

Civilizing them? I suspect that they would be civilizing us. Lol.

Hmmm interesting

Truly amazing to think about it. Thanks for the enlightenment. No wonder these creatures have naturally evolved sonar systems in their heads. I mean how much of complex stages of evolution does one have to go through for you to develop a fully functional natural sonar system in your head. Amazing creatures this video made me fall in love with them even more

@YSL The freakier thing is that they are technically hooved mammals, having evolved from an ungulate. This puts them in the same major mammal group as aardvarks, elephants, pigs, giraffes, antelope, wildebeest, sheep, goats, deer, camels, moose, horses ect. It's just too flipping creepy.

Yes that's one of the biggest parts of their brains

At the same time, higher intellect in Orca brains suffers from having a dedication to 3D senses. 3D sense wouldnt benefit humans in modern society, so its far better to have more brain power dedicated to higher IQ.

Humanity deserves to be offed only for this. They imprisoned and separated baby orcas from family. They are animals with twice as much affective capacity as humans. It means much more grief, depressions and loneliness. In a space barely twice their size. Well, no wander went ballistic on their trainers and caretakers. They have the self-awareness to figure they were the show pieces of this people that kidnapped them from their society. How could a creature not go murderous??

It truly is terrible. I often find myself feeling bad about going to sea world to see the show as a kid. Obviously I didn’t know anything about it being wrong and it was my grandparents who took me, but I still feel guilty for contributing to it.

@Bradley Maggard ??? for eating food??

@Dakota a whale stuck in a tank.

I've never gone to see one. I would be thinking about what you said constantly and wouldn't enjoy it 😭

Imagine being a Mammal and ruling the Land.

@Tridib Mondal Or basically ruling whatever we want,,,

Why did ruling the seas just trigger rule brittania to play in my head

Mammals rule basically everything nowadays. Hair and boobs FTW!

@bjboss 111 The opening scene of POTC where captain Jack Sparrow "berths" his boat at Port Royal popped into my head, along with the score and everything. Rule Brittania is more accurate.

You left out chimps, lions, and wolves since they hunt in packs and have high emotional intelligence as well.

honestly humans give themselves too much credit lol

They also teach their young to hunt stingrays without getting hurt.

Excellent

i really want to see this episode

As far I remembered they were not a pod but a duo only. I believe their names were Port and Starboard. The two Orcas who only kill just for fun until all great white sharks of Cape town, South Africa got decimated.

@Parengthony Castillo You might be right. It's been a while since I've seen it.

The Sardine run, of course.

Honestly this and it’s brothers channel real engineering is truly amazing.

Cool did no it had a brother channel

Ya but I still really like more quantity

Kurzegasagt is also one of them

I'm really glad you clarified you didn't learn anything, just so no random passerby will think James McVeigh is an orca noob.

Quite a few reports of them actually saving humans... Living free, off course.
Around the planet and over the centuries.
Sometimes you find yourself in the water unwillingly.
Big love from Spain

Swimming with Orca is a heck of a lot safer than swimming with most other sea life

That’s cause they’ve never left a survivor

There are videos of them swimming with people including a crazy encounter in New Zealand. Orca in Alaska have also tried to feed humans they’re friends with by giving them shark leftovers. They see us and know we are like them, it’s too bad some humans can’t do the same.

Do a search for the "Orca's of Eden Australia".

Miami Seaquarium is even worse with a tiny pen. They had two orcas and one committed suicide out of despair. Greatly despise the owner who should just close it and put her to rest, but his family only cares about money.

@12time12 yea.. heartbreaking

@ashley lol you can say we are locked up in land sea area is 3 times larger than land

@Star Nutron they can swim 100 miles in a day, that’s what southern resident orcas do traveling on the coasts of California. Orca actually need the space.

that’s so sad

:(

Yeah… in human terms it was a “what’s the password”
And he was like … “what?”
So they closed the door and left him stranded.

Bless him, poor baby 🥺

Oh fuck.

good comment thx man :)

what's your source?

@Ohmanzz national geographic has covered this back in 2018

Tahlequah, member of the J pod of Southern Resident killer whales, carried her dead calf for several weeks.

It started out interesting then of course 3 minutes in they had to put their plug in for the science fiction of common descent evolution. Science is about the repeatable portion of reality, not things like common descent evolution that contradict repeatable reality, can only be believed in, and they call reasons to believe in it 'evidence'.
The bottom line is the topic of the origin of all biological diversity is beyond the scope of science as beliefs, and reasons to believe in it, are all anyone can bring to the table.
Here's what *is* science: A.k.a., well documented and published even in evolutionists' own papers (when they happen to include something that's actually observable, repeatable, verifiable biological, scientific fact when they're telling their common descent stories and why they believe in it) that demonstrates common descent from a first life form is anti-science. Science shows that it's observable, repeatable, verifiable scientific fact that, no matter how many generations go by,
no matter how much "change in genetic composition during successive generations",
no matter how much "change in allele frequencies",
no matter how much "development of new species",
no matter how much "natural selection acting on genetic variation among individuals",
no matter how much "adaptation",
no matter how much "mutation",
no matter how much "speciation",
no matter how much "migration",
no matter how much "genetic drift",
no matter how much "insert other claims here"
no matter how many generations go by, ALL populations of:
fish remain fish
amphibians remain amphibians,
canines remain canines,
felines remain felines,
reptiles remain reptiles,
birds remain birds,
viruses remain viruses,
animals that never had lungs to breath air do not evolve lungs
animals that never had hearts to pump blood do not evolve hearts
animals that never had eyes to see do not evolve eyes
animals that never had brains do not evolve brains
animals that never had mouths do not evolve mouths
living things that never had a reproductive system do not evolve a reproductive system
animals that never had (insert organ here) remain living things without that organ, and so on.
There are many more such groups.
Science shows that the "common descent from a first life form" evolution (some call Darwinian evolution, some call theory of common descent) is anti-science.
Evolutionist can never address these facts - many unfortunately just fall back on ad hominem, showing how they're seem to be really about deception that's contrary to actual science.
===== Part TWO =====
Here are a few objections/claims they may bring up when they cannot address the above observable, repeatable and verifiable facts:
*Evolutionists sometimes try to claim you're against science.*
Science is fine and requires no belief.
In the entire existence of the human race: Objects drop to the ground. Observable, repeatable, verifiable, no belief required.
In the entire existence of the human race: Diseases spread. Observable, repeatable, verifiable, no belief required.
In the entire existence of the human race: All populations of: canines remain canines, fish remain fish, reptiles remain reptiles, animals that never had hearts do not evolve hearts, animals that never had digestive systems do not evolve digestive systems (or brains, or eyes, or reproductive systems and many, many more cases like these). Observable, repeatable, verifiable, no belief required.
*Evolutionists sometimes try to say they don't claim that populations of 'animals turn into other animals' over generations*
Quite the opposite. Evolutionists claim the first life form was a single cell. They claim that it is the ancestor of all living things today. That's "animals turning into other animal" over generations of mythological proportions. They claim humans, apes, rats, banana plants (50% DNA similarity to human beings) are all related - that's again "species turning into other species" of mythological proportions, claiming all life is related.
At some point reptiles did not exist in their worldview. That means they claim over generations some populations animals that were never reptiles 'evolved' over generations eventually into reptiles - That's "animals turning into other animals" over generations to mythological degrees.
At some point no animals had brains. This means they claim over generations some populations of animals that never had brains 'evolved' brains over generations.
Yet when called out on this some evolutionists even try to say "evolution doesn't say species turn into other species", which again is just not honest. It shows they not only know they're wrong, but they show their intent to push this falsehood anyway.
*If you point out evolutionists "populations over generations" claims, and some will dishonestly pretend you're claiming evolutionists are saying that one kind of animal 'gives birth' to another kind".* Which again is clearly deception. Science shows *populations over generations* do not do what they claim.
*Evolutionists typically imply making up reasons to believe in their common descent from a first life form belief system is the same as "observing" it,* which of course is false and is just circular reasoning. Making up beliefs ABOUT fossils or ABOUT DNA *that never happens* does not then make fossils or DNA 'evidence' or an 'observation of' of the belief you just made up about them.
*Evolutionists also typically resort to the crime analogy.* For example, since you cannot "observe" a certain crime, but can look at "evidence" for a crime, that shows we can know things happened without observing it. But what they ignore: the thing called a "crime" is already observable, repeatable, verifiable reality, so now we can look for forensic 'evidence' of some *MORE* possible crimes that no one is left alive to have observed it. By sharp contrast, what evolutionists do would be the same as giving 'evidence' for some strange new crime that's never been observed even once by the human race, and yet claim that's also an observation of this crime that never happens actually happening (for example: a "crime" of turning someone into a tree).
*Even some people factually observing something that's never happened is not science if it's not repeatable and also verifiable*. So for example, hundreds of people are witness to the fact Jesus Christ rose from the dead (or that He raised others from death), and they wrote about it. Direct observation. But it's still not science because it's *not repeatable* and not *verifiable.* There's also evidence He rose from the dead, and some have observed Him alive after the fact, but it's STILL not science that people can be raised from the dead, in spite of evidence, and in spite of it also being directly observed - because it's not *repeatable* and not *verifiable.* And so it goes with the belief of common descent from a first life form - not only is it not *repeatable,* not *verifiable,* it's not even *observable* either - which makes the resurrection far more likely to be called science before the belief of common descent from a first life form ever could. But neither of them can be called science of course.
===== Part Three =====
*Evolutionists almost always are against Christ but are teaching their religion* that goes along with their belief of common descent from a first life form - the belief of 'nothing did it - it all just happened on it's own, including life - you're just another animal related to all animals - so live how you want and you'll rest in peace when you die". But they also pass this religion off 'you are god' off as science as well.
That in mind, I implore people to re-read the gospels and forget what any church or any religion or anyone has claimed they say and sincerely consider yet again for ourselves. Judgment is coming for us all for our lifetime of sinning AND refusing God's offer to forgive and forget in the person of Jesus Christ. But religions also twist God's truth to make people think it's their religion and system of rules that makes them right with God when it's about a person: Jesus Christ, and choosing to have a relationship with Him, having a change of mind about living for ourselves and turning back towards God/ Jesus Christ to live for Him instead.
John 3 : 14-21 *_"[Jesus said] And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up [i.e., on the cross]: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved [exposed]. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."_*
Live forever, friends!

Its going to be hilarious to hear them talk sh*t about us

It's odd to think of who we companion with. Whenever I see my dog chewing bones, I'm reminded of how one predator has domesticated another. Those same jaws crunch MY bones, yet there is no fear.

Free willy

Same! I fell in love with them as a child after my grandma gave me a stuffed Keiko. My mom showed me free Willy and I decided I wanted an orca themed bedroom. I’m 25 now and orcas are still my favorite animal. I’ve seen a pod in the wild before, brought tears to my eyes.

a lot like me. I also has a plush orca. It was my favorite animal. I didn't know it was at the stop of the food chain, when i was aware of that fact when i was older, i thought the comment was joking or just typical just exaggerating their favorite animal. Turn out orca are really the most powerful in the ocean.

Hail fellow orca lover, well met

Depends on what you count as an attack. Some orcas do sort of attack small boots at times and iirc there was at least one surfer who got bit by an orca (pretty sure there is a video of it, too) and required stitches for his wound. But as far as I know there are no known fatalities bc of orcas in the wild.
But given how big and powerful they are and how easy it would be for them to kill us (be that by literally ripping us to shreds or simply drowning us) and seeing as they simply don't feel the need to do so, I'd say that one recorded bite of a human in the wild is negligible.

I'd heard about Tahlequah. Such a sad story. I'm so jealous you get to see them in the wild. Lolita is the last surviving Southern Resident in captivity. She has been living in the smallest orca tank in the world since 1970. Her tank is only 22 feet deep, Lolita herself is 20 feet long. She is from the L pod. Her mother is L25 'Ocean Sun.' Lolita was captured during the infamous Puget Sound round ups. Corky is the oldest orca in captivity. She is the last surviving captive Northern Resident and member of the A5 pod, which consists of her sister, brother, niece and grand nephews. She is known as the sweetest orca in captivity. She lives at Seaworld San Diego. She has been a wonderful adoptive mother to many orphaned orcas such as Orkid (known as the most intelligent orca in captivity, she is mentioned in Blackfish), Splash, Keet, Makani and Tilikum's sons Sumar and Ikaika. There is a campaign to retire Lolita and Corky to a sea sanctuary.

Have you heard about this symbiotic relationship humans had with them from Eden on the east coast of Australia?:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_(killer_whale)

How often do you see them at Pugent Sound?

@Leira Acevedo-Fu I live on the water and it’s usually every few months. They just went by a week ago so probably won’t see them for awhile

I would try and swim or kayak with them

Exactly my thoughts. They're essentially an aquatic counterpart to humans, who however don't have the ability to use tools, and probably won't master the use of fire, which were two key factors that allowed human civilization to progress beyond a primitive tribal stage.
Yet, those human ancestors that started with those basic inventions are genetically still *very* similar to modern humans (one of the main factors that leads to us developing biological differences seems to be nutrition).
So you could theorize that, if we were able to communicate with Orcas, and provide them technology to overcome their biological limitations in regards to tools, that they could possibly catch up to human civilization by virtue of already being 'biologically there' in terms of intelligence...

And they are cruel to other animals for no apparent reason. So yeah, they really are like humans

Actually they're endangered, according to some sources while others don't have enough data

@Alblaka Aquatic species don't discover electricity. And if they do, they won't be able to tell anyone. 😳