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Old 08-04-2016, 01:24 PM   #1
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http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/ani...-animals-orcas

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Perhaps the most stunning aspect of this behavior is that it's not just a few isolated incidents. Humpback whale rescue teams have been witnessed foiling killer whale hunts from Antarctica to the North Pacific. It's as if humpback whales everywhere are saying to killer whales: pick on someone your own size! It seems to be a global effort; an inherent feature of humpback whale behavior.
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Old 08-04-2016, 01:28 PM   #2
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Pretty cool.

Orcas are badass though. Love the way they hunt.
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Old 08-04-2016, 01:42 PM   #3
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That's awesome. I wonder why they're doing this.

I'm guessing the Dolphins called on the humpback whales to intervene on the Orca's ISIS like ocean terrorism.
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Old 08-04-2016, 01:45 PM   #4
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That's awesome. I wonder why they're doing this.

I'm guessing the Dolphins called on the humpback whales to intervene on the Orca's ISIS like ocean terrorism.
Orca's eat baby whales. Humpbacks must be taking a page out of the human playbook and culling the numbers of an invasive species.
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The Aquaman movie PR team are going all out.
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Aren't Humpbacks twice the size of Orcas?
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Old 08-04-2016, 02:04 PM   #7
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Dont hump the humpbacks you Orca bastards!
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I though the question here was going to be something along the lines of "so we are considering getting a new pet and we have decided to get a fish or possibly a mammal"

free willy was an orca and looked how that worked out - although the crew of the enterprise needed to travel back in time and get themselves a pair of humpback's
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Aren't Humpbacks twice the size of Orcas?
Transient Orcas will hunt younger whales. They drag them down to the bottom and pin them until they suffocate and then only eat their cheeks and tongue. Sometimes they just kill them to train the younger Orcas.
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I think the most likely explanation is that because Humpbacks need to have the ability to foil orca attacks for their own survival, and responding to Orca hunt behavior even when they aren't the subject of the attack is essentially practice for when they are the targets. It increases their abilities to anticipate and react to orca hunting behavior.

At least personally, I think that's far more likely than the Humpbacks behaving altruistically.
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oh great... just wait until canuck fans get wind of this... i can hear it now....

"it's like the humpbacks are the refs/league and they are always picking on the orcas/canucks"
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We were out whale watching once off of Sidney, BC and had to turn around because a bunch of the transient Orcas showed up and were chucking seals with their tales. Apparently if one hit the zodiac it could sink it, so we didn't get to see nature takes it's course.
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Orcas also eat great whites:

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Orca's are the Wasp of the ocean.
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Orca's are the Wasp of the ocean.
They're not that annoying. they don't ruin picnics and bbq's. I see them more like the preppy jocks of the ocean. Driving around in the fancy cars their parents bought them, bullying all the other smaller sea animals. People come and watch them in their boats thinking they're so cool and beautiful which only feeds the orca ego.

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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all. "Whales Weep Not" - D. H. Lawrence.

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So if orcas are just big jerks anyways it is only fair we are jerks to them and force them to do tricks for our entertainment. It just sets the tone that we won't put up with their bully life style in the wild.

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Somewhere someone has just thought that Orca's versus Humpbacks is the greatest porn website name ever and is registering it.
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Whales in general are such an odd creature.

Blow holes on the top of their heads?
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Whales in general are such an odd creature.

Blow holes on the top of their heads?
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