#orcas — Public Fediverse posts
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📑La Autoridad Científica CITES en España ha emitido un informe desfavorable al traslado. Desde PACMA defendemos que su futuro no puede ser otro delfinario.
🌊Por eso seguimos exigiendo la creación de un santuario marino como alternativa al cautiverio y luchando por el fin de los espectáculos con cetáceos.
📣¡Que dejen de explotar a Wikie y Keijo!
#Orcas #WikieYKeijo #StopDelfinarios #ÚneteALaRevoluciónVerde #ÚneteAPACMA
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The Orca Behavior Institute recorded a record-breaking number of Bigg’s killer whale sightings in the Salish Sea in July.
https://www.kuow.org/animals/2026-08-19/the-salish-sea-is-the-place-to-be-for-orcas-this-summer-whats-behind-this-trend
#KUOW #News #Environment #Animals #Orcas #Nature -
🐋 Orcas in the Gulf of California have been filmed using a coordinated ramming technique to explosively fragment sunfish, turning a two-ton fish into a cloud of scraps.
One orca holds the dead sunfish by its tail while another charges in at over 40 km/h, colliding snout-first with enough force to blow the fish apart. The behavior, documented in Frontiers in Ethology in July 2026, solves a real problem: sunfish have dense, rubbery skin that is extremely difficult to tear open with teeth alone.
The high-impact fragmentation creates bite-sized pieces that juveniles can easily eat, and researchers believe the technique also serves as social play and a learning exercise for younger pod members. It is the first documented case of orcas using ramming as a coordinated food-processing strategy.
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Transients are seeking sea lions for dinner. The resident orca pods, dwindling because salmon decline, only eat fish, and are family centered. The transient killer whales haven’t visited this close to humans in Puget Sound for years. I wonder whether they know humans are no longer hunting them.
#orcas #killerwhales #BallardLocke #Seattle
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/orca-sighting-at-ballard-locks-is-great-news-for-salmon/ -
On #Orcas and was waiting for a friend to arrive on that sailing of the Chalen. She finally arrived around 6pm, and I got her where she needed to go (a girls weekend). Hope you got where you aimed too.
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"Why the Ocean's Deadliest Predator Refuses to Hunt Humans
There is a predator out there that flips full-grown great white sharks like coins, drowns blue whales, and has started sinking yachts off the coast of Europe. Pound for pound, nothing in the ocean kills better. So here is what should terrify you and somehow does not. You could be floating right above it, soft and slow and completely defenseless, and it will not touch you. In every year humans have kept records, it has had countless chances to hunt one of us in open water and taken exactly none. The deadliest thing in the sea has quietly decided we are off-limits. Why?”
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"Orcas Are Sinking Boats in Spain Again
Orcas hate boats. Well, the ones in Spain do, at least. Last week, a pod of the ocean mammals disabled, damaged, and destroyed a number of vessels – the latest in a long-running feud between cetaceans and watercraft.
The trouble started Thursday when, as Spanish news outlet SUR reports, four craft were targeted. Around 5 p.m., the yacht Idem was attacked just over a mile off Estaca de Bares, located at the northernmost point of Spain. The craft’s rudder was destroyed and it began to sink, prompting a rescue of the two people onboard (who escaped from the ordeal unharmed). According to mayor Alfredo Dovale, a private boat attempted to tow the yacht to shore, but was unable to recover it before it sank.
However, that was not the end of it. 'While assisting the yacht Idem, it emerged another sailing vessel had also experienced an interaction with these marine mammals, but the damage to its rudder was minimal and it continued sailing to Viveiro,' added the Spanish Coast Guard. Another craft had its rudder rendered inoperable, and a third was attacked, but didn’t receive any significant damage.
The orcas struck again the following day, this time smashing the rudder of a 14-meter Swedish-flagged vessel named Vai. A Spanish coastguard vessel responded to a mayday call from the yacht and towed it to nearby Viveiro.
This is merely the latest in a long string of orca attacks, spanning years. Since 2020, killer whales have regularly accosted boats around the Iberian Peninsula, with hundreds of attacks reported each year. There are various theories as to exactly why they have taken to doing this, with some theorizing the behavior is revenge for a vessel strike, while others characterize the attacks as 'play behavior.'"
https://www.theinertia.com/surf/wavegarden-british-columbia-sea-to-sky-corridor/
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@DolphinSeeker/117004095399410379
The Orcas are just reflecting Human vibes...
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More oil pipelines to B.C. coast ➕ oil tanker traffic, adds negative repercussions:
➡️more underwater & air pollution
➡️potential devastating #oilspill on generations' worth of marine pop.
➡️#ClimateChange + warming oceansB.C. estuary lost approximately 85% of salmon habitat due to #fossilfuel development and infrastructure, and warming ocean
Chinook salmon is main food source of the southern resident killer whales:
🚨only 75 #orcas remain in the world
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/southern-resident-killer-whales-alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7282483
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"Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/orcas-ramming-prey-hard-explodes-playing-game
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Watch an orca ram into a sunfish so hard it explodes!
Science News reports that scientists think the orcas might pulverize prey to help feed their young — or just for fun.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋💥 Researchers in the Gulf of #California filmed orcas ramming dead #sunfish so hard the carcasses exploded.
The high impact strategy breaks #food into smaller pieces for juveniles and may also serve as #play. The sunfish’s rudder like tail seems to make a convenient handle for the #orcas to hold while striking.
👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/orcas-team-up-to-ram-sunfish-until-they-explode/
#marine #science #animals #behavior #ethology #mammals #whales #predator #prey #ocean
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“ #Orcas (Orcinus orca) have been spotted ramming sharp-tail sunfish (Masturus lanceolatus) so hard that they explode. For fun.
The gory display involved a female orca holding a dead sunfish in place for a male to speed into.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/orcas-ramming-prey-hard-explodes-playing-game
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New Orca fashion for the season...."exploding sunfish"
Personally I preferred the "Attack Yachts" craze, this just seems pointlessly malevolent.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/orcas-ramming-prey-hard-explodes-playing-game
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Orcas Are Kerploding Sunfish Into A Thousand Pieces
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/orcas-are-kerploding-sunfish-into-a-thousand-pieces
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Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-orcas-ramming-world-heaviest-fish.html
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Exhilarating captain's log entry from Monterey Bay where the captain and passengers of Sanctuary Cruises captures incredible video of a pod of Bigg's killer whales hunting 15 dolphins. High wire acrobatics etc.
"Seeing a predation event of this scale is a stark reminder of the raw, trophic dynamics of Monterey Bay. While these encounters can be difficult to watch, they represent the natural ecological balance of a healthy, functioning marine sanctuary."
https://www.sanctuarycruises.com/captains-log/entry-1784508111383/
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The #Orcas have been pretty frequent in #Vancouver this past month.
we have seen orcas twice in May. from shore! -
University of Washington: Decades-long dataset shows which orcas are most at home in Puget Sound. “Looking at data from The Whale Museum’s Sightings Archive between 1978 and 2022, University of Washington researchers modeled migratory trends based on observations from researchers, recreational boaters and whale watchers. They found that K and L pods are visiting Puget Sound less often, but […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/26/university-of-washington-decades-long-dataset-shows-which-orcas-are-most-at-home-in-puget-sound/ -
24-Jun-2026
44 years of killer whale (orca) data from the waters of Washington state reveal how endangered fish-eating #killerWhales are less present in recent years
Meanwhile, populations of Bigg's killer whales, which eat seals, dolphins and other whales, are becoming increasingly presentI just love the fact that there are groups of #orcas with different culinary cultures ...
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Family Group (Pod) Of Seven Or More Orcas Feeding
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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #CamelCase #Photography #Travel #Animal #TravelPhotography #Norge #Animals #PhotoOfTheDay #BNW #POTD #Norway #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Orca #Orcas #Whale #Whales #Sea #Ocean #Oceans #Water #Arctic #Norwegian
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France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/france-to-send-its-last-captive-orcas-to-marine-park-not-sanctuary/
