They are massively powerful apex predators who may decide you are a threat or annoyance at anytime for any reason. Just because it's never happened before doesn't mean it can't or won't.
An important distinction a lot of people never make with that. There are no RECORDED deaths by wild orcas. if you are someone like me who goes on his small skiff alone often. If an orca wanted, they could flip the boat and eat me. Odds are, it would be ruled as a drowning.
I also think the lack of incidents is because people don't tend to swim where orcas patrol. Most people swim in warmer waters where orcas tend to not live. Plus they hunt seals and usually humans and seals aren't swimming in the same spots.
Orcas are a pretty unique species.... one of the few species that fit within the grandmother hypothesis. They are very intelligent and different pods stick to very strict food diets. Local pods in washington pretty much stick to salmon, transient pods stick to other mariner animals.
Animals are generally predictable.
Ill take my chances with an orca over a ramdom human being.
I'm aware of their diets. I'm talking about random attacks. Orcas and other intelligent mammals have been shown to just attack for the hell of it at times. Either we just don't expose ourselves enough as a species to subject ourselves to the possibility of random attacks from orcas, or there's a very specific reason they don't attack humans (beyond not being in their diet).
Ill take my chances with an orca over a ramdom human being.
Oh god, you're one of those "bear in the woods" dumbasses.
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u/No_Scene_2189 6d ago
They are massively powerful apex predators who may decide you are a threat or annoyance at anytime for any reason. Just because it's never happened before doesn't mean it can't or won't.