Orcas are learning terrifying new behaviors. Are they getting smarter?

[admin]

From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are displaying some fascinating — and sometimes terrifying — behaviors.

Orcas are learning terrifying new behaviors. Are they getting smarter? : Read more

 

[SpaceCadet3223]

Could the Orcas be suffering mutations from pollution/ poisoning that have affected their brains?

 

[anim810]

Could the Orcas be suffering mutations from pollution/ poisoning that have affected their brains?

Don't see why not. We are.

 

[FMTrindade]

Neither playing with dolphins and other marine mammals (or birds, nor eating sharks livers are new.

Even the movie "Orca" from the eighties already revealed those behaviors.

Why do you refer these rather common treats as new?

 

[Judicious Jannock]

If they are getting smarter, they’ll likely be fraternizing and/or conspiring with the octopuses soon.

 

[J0s3ph$4pp]

Could the Orcas be suffering mutations from pollution/ poisoning that have affected their brains?

Is it possible that this aggressive behavior could be cause by the consumption of smuggled drugs like the occurrence where sharks consumed some off the coast of Florida?