“Maybe he just wanted to play. Or look me in the eyes. Or to get rid of the fishing line” 🐋 An orca whale rammed into a yacht off the coast of Scotland on Monday
A pod of killer whales struck a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar, near Spain, on 4 May piercing the rudder.: “There were two smaller and one larger orca.
One theory is that the incidents were being led by a female orca known as “Gladis” who may have been traumatised by an incident such as becoming trapped in a fishing net or being hit by a boat.Orcas are highly intelligent and able to copy behaviour which might explain their wide range of hunting styles.
However, scientists have been left surprised that the boat-ramming behaviour has reappeared in Scotland, thousands of miles from the Strait of Gibraltar.
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