As someone who lives on Vancouver Island and is graced by seeing these animals somewhat regularly for over a decade now, I can tell you that it never gets old and never ceases to amaze. They are so intelligent and curious about everything and it always blows my mind just how they know to navigate around us without causing harm.
I'm so blessed to live on the Puget Sound. We've been allowed by our local J-Pod of Orcas to visit and interact with them on so many occasions. They KNOW US! They know our boats and tge the sounds they make. God blesses us with their presence in earth. In the water, We're at THEIR HOUSE!❤
@@thezanzibarbarian5729 It was absolutely tragic and unnecessary. They should have tried to reunite Luna with his Southern resident pod. The gentle pescatarian subspecies has been declining for decades and is among the most studied in the world.
I had to come back and watch this video again. I absolutely fell in love w/ Luna. She's so smart, intelligent & naturally curious. She's a regular visitor who often drops by the docks, & seeks out a dockworker who drops in a fire-hose w/ the water on. She loves to delicately pick up the open end of it & spray the deck, oftentimes, she "accidentally" manages to spray her playful partners who dodge the spray, seeming much to her delight. She seems to meet a curious & playful black Lab, wanting to play their version of Marco Polo! Adorable!
Government. Government happened. Government banned anyone from interacting, feeding or playing with him "for his own safety" Then didn't even bother to send anyone to keep him company and watch over him while rehabilitating him for survival in the wild. So became so lonely he started hanging around with and getting in trouble with the commercial vessels docked in the area, then he got sucked into one of the big propellers of a tugboat. If the Government had not gotten involved he'd probably still be alive today Once again proving the saying that the 9 scariest words in the english language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
Love the story of Luna. He was a young Orca that got separated from his pod and adopted humans as his friends and family. Completely friendly, playful and gentle. The story goes on but will leave it to this point. ❤
I met one when I was a teenager out fishing in a small row boat In Hardangerfjorden (Norway) He ws curious, poked his head up and circled me a couple of times. I love them
They thought the boats upside-down with the rutter that looks like the top fin on an orca !! But cute scratching their backs. Helped people and animals! It's hilarious with the fire hose!!
Have a good friend who is kayak enthusiast . Off West Coast of Scotland he heard this sound and looked out to see Orca surfacing close enough for him to touch , lovely experience .
i was visiting my cousin in seattle,washington, last year fishing for salmon, we caught are limits for the day when a pod of orcas came on our boat, they looked and splashed at us, then i took 3 salmons out of the bait hole in our boat and throw out to the orcas they came right up to the boat watching for move so we threw 2 more in the mouths, . they looked for a little while at us and vs ers ah to them. in a motion they where gone, we continued to catch 5 more salmons and bigger then the one we throw to the orcas, and went home , best day ever?!!!
Never feed an orca!! You are teaching them that they can look to humans for food! That will make them dangerous and get them killed. Look what happens to bears when people feed them!!!,
You absolutely must never, never do that again. There are laws against feeding wildlife for many reasons 1 of which is survival another is they can become aggressive and attack humans if they associate humans with food. Please do not do this again.
Seen them off the coast of Cape Town South Africa, I remember my wrist watch band getting snagged on my camera strap as i was leaning over the edge of the boat and it fell into the ocean , the orca saw this and swam down (which I found strange at first) but it returned seconds later with the watch in its mouth. I didnt know what too make of this and was hesistant to reach out and take the watch for fear of getting pulled into the ocean . But the orca put its head closer to the boat as if to say "Here you dropped this " I eventually took my watch back and the orca swam around the boat and took off , I wonder if it was a tame Orca realeased back into the ocean , either way ive never seen such intellegence from any other animal .
God bless you! Thank you for sharing the truth and nature of these beautiful creatures. You’re videos are healing fear instilled by egos and accidents around the globe 🙏 ❤
Ive seen quite a few Orca when out on solid hull boats but when I was in an inflatable by myself in a remote part of New Zealand, I wasn't as brave. I didn't stop to be in awe, I carried on to get to shore.
@@cindyj5522 I knew that, my stupid phone is possessed. When I went to change it back, the edit wouldn't work. But thank you for making the correction for me.😁
I swam with the Norwegian orcas and they are so intelligent and aware of you in the water it’s scary. I will probably never do it again because it was so frighteningly thrilling
I would be tempted to swim with them. I recall seeing a youngling that separated from his pod to inspect our whale watching boat in Seattle. I was avoiding the crowd that was observing the pod on the starboard side and he came right up to me and gave me a brief greeting before rejoining his pod.
Marine Mammals are the coolest greatest creatures on Earth. Dolphins & Killer whales desperately want to interact & play with us. I just saw a vid of orcas imitating human speech (pretty well too)
If the orca had wanted the dog, it would have been able to get the dog. I suspect it was merely curious about the dog and humans and came by to say hello. 💗
When fishing in Alaska several years ago, a pod of orcas swam with the boat for about two miles and one juvenile kept swimming up to the boat to check us out. Of course our fishing wasn’t good until the pod left the area.
Ours are too small, not the fat they search for, and being fellow apex predators as they are, our livers store toxic "forever" chemicals (PCBs), as theirs do. Great white sharks' livers make up to 1/3rd of their bodies & filled w/ fat for buoyancy.
Poor, beautiful, wonderful Tillikum, he will always have my heart, such grace and beauty, wasted.....he would have made a pod proud, but he never got the chance to live up to his potential 😢
I womder if the orcas like the positive response they get from is. You know, the “oooh and awwws!” The high pitched baby talk. I think they even respond in some Way when we name them.
I have to ask...would YOU ever think of slipping into the water for a little swim? I must confess, if there weren't too many, and they seemed playfully curious for a while, I would seriously consider slipping into the water for a few minutes to test them out! That's on my bucket list for sure!!
I would consider it but keep a respectful distance, if they were to approach I would hope no harm would come but it would have been my choice, I have been around seals whilst diving and as long as your respectful they leave you alone with sometimes they nibble your fins but no harm, if they meant business I wouldn’t have to be writing this message wit my left eyebrow 👍🏻
@@juliaforsyth8332 Most countries have laws protecting sea wildlife from harassment however I do some sea swimming here in the UK and should the extremely unlikely event arise like New Zealand where there s a chance If they were to approach me in their realm then it wouldn’t leave me much choice. The issue of eaten for my liver as another commented I can only say that there has not been any recorded events of Orca’s attacking humans in the wild (in captivity is another matter) I would not be so foolhardy to swim with leopard seals or many other such large mammals like sea lions etc as they are known to be aggressive. The same with dolphins which can be unpredictable and not the cuddly cute creatures that people think they are.
Ya, no. They aren’t as nice as videos like this make them out to be. Watch a few Killer Whales/Orcas hunting videos then you might reconsider. They like to play with their food before they eat it, and I’m pretty sure that dog would have been lunch if it didn’t get out of the water.
I think they are smart enough to understand we can wreck them if we want. They have language and culture. They see what we do to the ocean life and want no part of it.
Such beautiful, intelligent creatures. How awesome it must be to meet them out in the ocean. That is definitely on my bucket list. Live, or die.I seriously want to swim with them. Who can help me do that? Anyone?
I think they dont attack because of 4 specific reasons. We are not their natural prey. We are foreign to them, our smell, noise, and movement patterns are alien to them. They have more curiosity when around us than anything else. Lastly, I believe that on top of being curious about us, they recognize that we are highly intelligent and social creatures.
Around Spain and Portugal, orcas have been attacking yachts and fishing boats for some years now. Nobody knows why. In some cases these attacks were fatal... for the boats...
This a Mammal that has been swimming around well before the human species without a huge forehead started to walk out of Africa. They are a Learning Species.
All dolphins are whales, just toothed whales specifically. Killer whale was more of a slight mistranslation anyway, the original nickname was whale killer because some orca groups feed on larger whales.
Orcas don’t eat humans because not enough fat. To say they don’t know humans have livers doesn’t make any sense. They are smart creatures in fact reports of them saving humans.
In regards to Orcas attacking boats, I offer another opinion, it's nothing about revenge, or personal orca issues. As it appears only the rudder's are broken off. Why is this? And are all vessels attacked? My theory is this, that is most sailboat rudder shafts, the tube that goes up into the boat to which the rudder is connected to, is loose in the shaft log housing. This allows a vibration or resonance to occur due to loose rudder shaft, and or out-of-balance rudder with fairing issues setting up a vibration in the water. It is this vibration the Orcas take exception too. Why else would they only break off the rudder and not attack the keel, or the hull itself? It's the vibration of the rudder passing though the water which is annoying them. Note, most sailboats do not have bulkheads to prevent water from getting into the vessel interior once the shaft log is breached, cracked or broken in the case of oraces bumping, smashing and crashing into the rudder itself. Additionally, most sailboats do not have adequate bilge pumps to handle high water flow other that an small leak, hence they sink in deep water.
In Spain the fishing boats have been harassing them badjy. trying to ram them and shooting at them. Even if they sink the boats they don't go after the men in the water. Noise has a massive effect on whales especially sonar, so probably Orca too.
it's much better seeing an Orca at sea where they belong then at SeaWorld because you definitely get a better and more experience then at seaworld I've come across so many Orcas During my time as a volunteer Lifeguard During the 80s at Ocean Beach just three to 5 Minutes going past Onarah Northern Whangarei New Zealand as well as Rurakaka 5 to 10 Minutes allso just going out of whangarei going towards Auckland central city New Zealand
Orcas are sentient beings meaning they're extremely intelligent. All they're doing is that they're sussing out if you are a prey or something to relate to.
