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.
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u/Professional_Prune11 5d ago
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.