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Fishermen off Coronel cut rope and buoys from an orca's tail after it approached their boat
Damnthatsinteresting | by /u/trigger0069 | 117 comments | 2026-09-02T14:00:31+00:00 Central
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| /u/lsaran "Fuckin trust me, they'll do it." |
| /u/Prior_Dimension_6680 "William do not make those dolphin noises at me, I am your mother. But yes, I see.." |
| /u/999BusinessCard Fun facts: Orcas are the largest species of dolphin, belonging to the family Delphinidae. Killer whale is not a misnomer because all dolphins are whales. They all belong to the infra infraorder cetacea and the parvorder toothed whale. This also means that there are freshwater whales (river dolphins) |
| /u/Bloodlustt From this day forward I will refer to them as Killer Dolphins. |
| /u/EntityDamage Da surf must break you. |
| /u/No_Application_8698 "It's the least they can do, considering it's their fucking rubbish in the first place" |
| /u/TurboD16F20 "Hooman, come get your shit off me!" |
| /u/GeorgiaYork Exactly. Orcas are smart enough to be very aware that humans dumped these dam ropes and nets into their home and it's humans responsibility to fix their mess! |
| /u/HMS404 That was well... orcastrated by everyone involved. |
| /u/Bright-Avocado3761 Whale you please stop making puns |
| /u/GriffTube What's the porpoise in that? |
| /u/Ralph--Hinkley Dolphinatly something to be considered. |
| /u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel Whale whale whale, what magnificent puns. |
| /u/nastywillow That's the Fin-al one |
| /u/InvalidUserNemo I sea what you did there. |
| /u/sagacious_guy Sealed the deal with that one. |
| /u/Kevin_Uxbridge Otter consider the options. |
| /u/kalidoscopiclyso I thought it was fintastic |
| /u/throwuk1 Oh FFS, here's an upvote. |
| /u/FormidableMistress Take my angry upvote and get out. |
| /u/BiZzles14 Now imagine this happens to you and you don't record it, how many people would believe you giving all the details of this video lol. That what looks like a young orca, guided there by their parents, waited patiently on the surface for you to come over and kept their tail at water level for you to come and deal with. Pretty crazy story, but it's the older orca coming up immediately after the young one was released that I don't think anyone would truly understand. Just the timing of them surfacing, and the way they do so just to look above the water line, felt like a thank you and a shared moment between species. That's the story I'd be trying to tell at least lol |
| /u/gimpwiz People didn't believe the whole "giant squid" thing for god knows how long, until it was finally caught on film. Granted it didn't help that people also claimed giant squids were kraken shaped and kraken sized and could bring a ship down, so it was easy to write off the whole thing as a sasquach-like hoax. |
| /u/shakygator but there is a colossal squid and things used to be bigger before we started killing the earth so there very well could have been bigger squid, like a megasquid. also things like oarfish lead to stories about sea serpents, etc. |
| /u/Ganandof I thought the exact same thing, I'm happy to see it wasn't only me 🤣 |
| /u/Tomatoflee Keeping the truce between orcas and humans. Sensible. |
| /u/5H17SH0W This may have bought us a few more years. |
| /u/psy-study-oldie They didn't sink their boat at least. |
| /u/Own-Gap-8725 They aren't rich assholes either. Orcas smarter than we realize. |
| /u/explosivelydehiscent We will need them in the fight against AI. They are already training their young on rich assholes. We need to step up our game. |
| /u/suspendmeforthis We take the airports first, the orcas take the ports. |
| /u/Gregbot3000 "Snorky...talk...man..." |
| /u/RandomRobot We might need defense dolphins too https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/russia-se curity-sevastopol-black-sea-base-spy-dolphins |
| /u/disc0mbobulated You saying we need to amp up their capacity against larger boats? Yachts? Like say, everything pleasure boat in excess of 10m pounds? |
| /u/someanimechoob I say we attach laser beams to their heads and let them decide what to do with them. |
| /u/Tallman_james420 I trust the Orca judgement |
| /u/saskskua All hail, Orca overlords |
| /u/worldspawn00 I'd trust them over most politicians. |
| /u/keeper_of_the_donkey Hey, we can get the orcas to destroy the underwater data centers for us |
| /u/FormidableMistress "See that one? The boat is smaller, they hunt fish like we do, they will help us. They aren't the big boat." |
| /u/perseidot They've probably been fishing in the same water for years, and had plenty of opportunities to watch these humans before approaching them, too. They know what these fishermen are about. |
| /u/InMyNirvana I 100% believe this. Orcas are so friggen smart. They know where the threats are. |
| /u/CruxOfTheIssue Orcas have been known to listen for the sound emitted by a fishing boat when it's mechanically raising its line and stealing the fish from them. |
| /u/Technical_Scallion_2 I'm pretty sure they see us catching millions of fish and feel like we're all in the apex predator club |
| /u/sabertoothdog I'm sure they have better vocabulary than humans tho. They can hear & produce a much wider range of sound and in orcas, the part of the brain for social activities is much more developed than humans. |
| /u/Alarming_Orchid Intelligence comparable to humans and we treat them like this just because they don't speak English |
| /u/sayy_yes Someone's hiding the real reason the Titanic sank. |
| /u/External-Creme-6226 Cause yo mama sat on it? |
| /u/lordph8 Perhaps he will wear a salmon hat in his honour. |
| /u/Square-Dragonfruit76 Back in the whaling days orcas used to help hunt whales with people. |
| /u/Quiet-Ad-1464 Yes. There is a great documentary about a famous case of orcas who helped fisherman hunt for a few seasons. Fisherman had names for Orcas, and one hunted alongside humans for 30 years. https://explorersweb.com/orcas-hunted-alongside-humans/ |
| /u/enphurgen Dont get me wrong, it's good that we stopped hunting whales, but we missed out on domesticating orcas |
| /u/Critical_Watcher_414 I think SeaWorld tried that with pretty poor success. |
| /u/OffWalrusCargo I mean you keep someone in a cage away from proper socializing they will probably be pretty pissy too. |
| /u/umlaut-overyou That wasn't domestication, that was confinement |
| /u/lentil-wearing-a-hat Yeah, tortured enslavement. |
| /u/darkest_irish_lass There is domestication and then there is cooperation. I think orcas would prefer the latter |
| /u/greenskye I mean if we had found a use for them or had larger animals to hunt in the ocean we could've set up some sort of sheep dog situation. It's just a lot harder to take care of an Orca properly than a dog. |
| /u/Wild-Kitchen The sheep would drown |
| /u/Biodiversity1001 I read something similar and then some arrogant whaler came in and ruined it. The locals told them he had to leave the whale out overnight and the orcas would take the tongue as their reward, and he wouldn't do it. The orcas never brought another whale into the harbor. |
| /u/Megafaune That's how they got their name, asesina ballenas, badly translated as killer whales instead of whale killers. |
| /u/Helenium_autumnale Whoa! That is a fantastic TIL nugget! I can also see the relationship between "ballenas" and "baleen," a type of whale with the keratin mouth-curtains. Thank you! |
| /u/The_Tooter_Snooter I've heard stories from the pacific islands and stuff that in the past, the humans and dolphins worked together to catch fish and even had a shared language they could use to communicate. I fully believe that. |
| /u/kelfupanda Theres a reports of dolphins killing sharks that went near human occupied beachs. |
| /u/BoleroMuyPicante Dolphins straight up hate sharks and kill them for love of the game |
| /u/ItsDonDong My refugee family was floating in the ocean without food/water for about a week before a pod of dolphins just randomly showed up and started hanging with them. They followed the dolphins and was led to a fishing village... |
| /u/RandomRobot Have you tried contacting Disney? |
| /u/CvieYltidrekoof Imagine the recent orca attacks are from their anger at being ghosted by their longtime hunting buddies. |
| /u/aknoth Impressive that since gul'dan opened the dark portal no incident happened. |
| /u/Deatheturtle With this, the bargain is maintained. |
| /u/schmapeschmape Did you see how fast the fisherman worked to cut the ropes? We want to stay in the good graces of orcas. |
| /u/Jolly_Ad1631 Never been an attack on human in the wild! Mistaken or otherwise! This pod could have easily flipped this boat if they thought it was a risk. Love seeing how intelligebt they are |
| /u/MondoStoked They sound spanish. There's actually been an ongoing break on those truces for the past years near the Iberian Peninsula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks I was just thinking I hope these orcas go and tell their friends that we're cool again Edit: turns out that this is in Chile, let's see if the message travels |
| /u/unfortunatebastard That's definitely a Chilean accent. On the human at least, not sure about the orca. |
| /u/uhmerikin The orca had the same accent, I heard it. |
| /u/superanth "Hey man, do a fellow mammal a solid?" |
| /u/SharpKaleidoscope182 My two favorite monster species and I'm really glad they get along |
| /u/Espressone Honestly this is incredible! It totally knew humans could help it and waited patiently for them to help. |
| /u/cookiesarenomnom I think some orcas and dolphins know humans can help. There have been lots of cases of dolphins swimming up to divers to cut things that are caught on them. Just like, Hey! You human! Help please! |
| /u/Special_Capital_8281 I grew up surfing off the beach in my backyard in CA (HMB, couple miles south of Mavericks). For three years when I was in highschool, the same harbor porpoise (unique, specific scars on head and fins) would show up around the months of july-august and hang out with us. We'd be out in the line-up between sets, and he'd just pop up and start chittering at us and would hang out for hours. Immediately friendly, let you rub/pet him. He'd get right next to you on your board, and talk to you. Sometimes just sit and float with us without making a sound, hanging out. EDIT: And yes, he would ride waves. I was never lucky enough to share a wave with him, but it happened to two of my buds at least once each that I saw. EDIT2: Just remembered having friendly encounters w/ Sea Otters too, down near Steamers Lane in Santa Cruz. Climbing up on your board and sunbathing, etc. Also had some rather rude sea otter encounters there. lol |
| /u/crazycat690 Elaborate on the rude sea otter encounters?? |
| /u/bkbales Sea otters are super violent. If you want to know more just look into how they mate. |
| /u/IamRasters Maybe there is no heaven, but the kind people get reborn as intelligent sealife. The rest become plankton. |
| /u/YippieKayYayMrFalcon "I need help! I don't have thumbs!" |
| /u/potentalstupidanswer https://theonion.com/dolphins-evolve-opposable-thumbs-18 19565718/ |
| /u/Pandas_dont_snitch Stupid human - your people did this so fix it! |
| /u/Starfire2313 Even baby squirrels ask humans for help, human/animal relationships are so interesting to think about. Did we evolve alongside other species as being their shepherds? I guess so as far as domestication but it seems there's a little bit of that in wild animals too |
| /u/transemacabre There's a lady who started removing hooks from sharks and sharks began approaching her for help. Which is wild because -- orcas have very developed brains. Sharks are dumb as rocks in comparison but have some capacity to learn?? |
| /u/TheSteelPhantom If we're talking about the same lady, I've dove with her and 50+ sharks swarming all around us. Out of UNEXSO in Freeport, Bahamas. It was one hell of an experience. I almost paid to take her course where you wrap up in chain-mail and learn to hand-feed them too, but it was storming the next day and I had to fly within ~8 hours the day after. :( |
| /u/SpaceShipRat Mutualistic relationship with "cleaner fish" are common in the ocean, making lots of sea creatures kind of predisposed to look for help with grooming. Man, imagine if there was some global terrestrial equivalent, like those cleaner birds in north africa, and all animals kind of occasionally walked up to humans for a scratch. |
| /u/Espressone It's just crazy that it's a normal and regular occurrence. |
| /u/LiteraCanna "Hey! Come get your shit!" |
| /u/Same-Fee-1669 See I think of it more like "you fuckers did this, you fix it." They wouldn't need help if we stopped trashing their place. |
| /u/not_me_nope_never Yup, my internal monolog when I aee things like this... Orca "do something with your thumbs, you two legged twat monkey!" |
| /u/CalmTheAngryVoice It occurs to me the vast majority of orcas have never seen a monkey before |
| /u/DaddyBearMan I watched this video and then immediately next subreddit was a video of an orca tail slapping a pregnant sting ray so hard it caught 20 feet of air and spurted out its babies. The dichotomy of Orcas man.... |
| /u/Ornery_Hair3319 Just like humans right |
| /u/RandomPantsAppear Sir, there is no way I could throw a stingray that high, and I have no tail. |
| /u/ExtentOdd4325 We can make an air cannon for it, we have the technology |
| /u/Key_Signature2296 On a different note, I'm glad they don't view us as food. Orcas seems to have something that makes them seem sadistic & psychopathic. Maybe it's down to the fact that they are highly intelligent which is a contributing factor. |
| /u/brunocborges > Orcas seems to have something that makes them seem sadistic & psychopathic. Maybe it's down to the fact that they are highly intelligent I like how you equally described humans. |
| /u/Administrative-Bid61 Edit: Not in a million years would I have guessed that I would receive my first and only award for a comment on a video filmed in my country. Thanks kind stranger. |
| /u/Trackpoint Well, hunter recognizes hunter being after game, but I get your point! |
| /u/Key_Signature2296 Indeed, we are. There's no denying this. |
| /u/EducationalTip3599 My work was primarily with killer whales/orcas and belugas studying behavior. While we can't call them psychopathic scientifically, we can say that they do definitely find play behavior incredibly rewarding. The issue is that the human world and theirs is so wildly different, we often see them doing things that are problematic for interpretation in the human world. Some of these behaviors include playing with live food until it dies, raping of both their food sources and non food sources, and sexual behavior seemingly outside of reproductive purposes, and homosexual behaviors. The last two are not evil or sadistic, but small portions of humans would consider it immoral. The disconnect comes from the fact that animals don't have the same cultural stigmas and may lack the empathy sometimes present in human cultures. So the idea that seeking experience that provides them some sort of reward for them is natural. It has no connection to human morals as they are of course, not human. |
| /u/Burning___Earth I'm sure if we showed an Orca a factory farm and it could understand what it was seeing, it would think we're psychopathic. |
| /u/EducationalTip3599 That would be interesting. I'd honestly imagine they'd be excited for food, and wonder why we don't include playing with the chickens or cows more. |
| /u/Mun-Mun Maybe we just look nasty. Like how you look at a worm and don't want to eat it |
| /u/Sarallelogram Honestly this, but taste, is a big part of why a lot of things like sharks would just rather not. We are very weird animals slathered in sunscreen and deodorant and shampoo and fabric softener. Most animals, including small ones like spiders, are just gonna go "ew". |
| /u/Key_Signature2296 Really well explained, thanks a lot brother for explaining this to me. |
| /u/browsing_nomad Wow, today i learnt they are the CATS of the ocean :) |
| /u/DaedricNick All pods have different taught diets. We are not in the water enough and way to skinny for us to be considered food. |
| /u/Oggel Put me on a beach beside a walruss and you'd have to get real close to see any difference. |
| /u/GS-LW-SH Something like that happened in Alaska in 2005, when a 12 year boy was playing on a beach frequented by Harbor Seals an Orca appeared but realized he was a human at the last moment and spared him: https://web.archive.org/web/20120820041306/http://junea uempire.com/stories/081905/sta_20050819039.shtml |
| /u/eh-man3 Ok. So it really is just a choice then. One every single one of them have all made, apparently. This one bailed on what was certainly a predation attempt and then seems to have gotten the entire pod to do an elaborate display...to apologize? That might be over anthropomorphizing the behavior, but they definitely some odd behavior after. Fascinating. People call them savage, but can you name an animal you think no human has ever killed, despite many opportunities? |
| /u/Starfire2313 Orcas are one of my all time favorite animals. Whales seem so emotionally intelligent compared to us I wish so badly we could translate their language and talk to them and share culture |
| /u/Appropriate-Prune728 Do you like food? You sonofabitch, I like food! Also, there's some amazing research regarding neural networks, llms and whale song. Like... It's not unreasonable to think we'll be able to communicate at some point. |
| /u/BigBungholio Orcas have highly complex brains, with the parts that process memory and emotion being more developed than even humans. It's definitely not a stretch to think they were trying to say "whoops my bad" or their equivalent of it. Orcas are amazing animals, and quite possibly the smartest after humans on the planet. |