Exactly! Then people want to be surprised when there's a problem of orcas attacking boats. Little do they know these may be pods that had babies stolen from them. This behavior only turns us into their enemies.
@@SPACEMAN_fkYT correct. And if things were different they wouldn't be the way they are. We can't change the fact we mess with animals on a planetary scale, so imo we have to help them now. It's an abdication of duty to act the part of God's, but deny that we do so, and refuse to use that power for good when we have the chance to do so. It's being willfully blind to all the harm we do to animals not to try and tip the scales back a bit towards their survival. I've always said we need to leave a note in the ocean somehow, written on a giant stone somewhere that it can be seen from space. On it we should write: "sorry it's empty of everything bigger than plankton. We couldn't help ourselves, everything was just so fucking tasty!!!"
I agree. Russian needs to make laws so the hunting and capturing of Orca's will end and China will either have to get their own or stopped buying them. China is behind the rest of the world in this situation.
Orca pods and matriarchs in captivity will adopt young orcas from different ecotypes and cultures. Take for example Kasatka adopting Orkid. Or orkid adopting Splash despite him having a neurological disability. So it’s decently possible she was adopted. Orcas are empathetic animals. I think it’s also possible a family found her that knew her family. I mean even transient pods are atleast vaguely interconnected in one region, they’ll meet up to mate and socialize.
Hello. tks for your very interesting comment. You say that Orca's are empath ? how do you know/conclude on that ? (i am sincerley curious on what observation we reach this conclusion)
@@tomcat9112 hi, so I major in psychology and minored ethology with a current interest (to the point of having my closest friends be marine biologist/cetologists) and from what I understand about orcas they have both behavioral and neuroscientific evidence concluding that they’re one of the most high empathy animals on the planet. To begin, they have one of the most elaborated and “wrinkled” insulas on earth. Insulas do various things including emotions consciousness and social cooperation. Second, their brain contributes more space to their neocortex, and they have extremely large prefrontal cortex in ratio to the rest of the brain. This is the part of the brain that controls judgment empathy abstract thinking and reasoning. The same part of the brain that is inactive in psychopaths and dysfunctional in people who are neurodivergent or have severe depression which is why it was manipulated in lobotomies. However in orcas it’s extremely complex and active. Quite literally the opposite of a psychopath. And lastly for the neuroscience, cetaceans have a unique feature called the paralimbic lobe. We don’t fully understand it but we know It connects their limbic system to parts of their brain that deal with hearing language and abstract thinking. This means it’s extremely likely it deals with processing visceral emotions with language and sound, it’s probably related to emotions when it comes to social behavior. It’s extremely advance. As for their behavior, orcas are extremely emotional and social animals. You’ve probably heard they kill for fun. However, this is mostly a myth perpetuated by fishermen when the us government needed a reason to kill orcas that competed with fishermen. In reality, they don’t surplus kill more than neolithic humans. They do have to ram prey, this is because their teeth aren’t serated like say sharks. Blunt force is kinda necessary. However, the majority of orcas for cultural reasons don’t even eat warm blooded prey. They have decided to only eat fish and some of these orcas may even protect seals from other orcas. Those other orcas don’t take conflict to this however, they only need warm blooded prey because they travel longer distances and burn more calories. In the wild and captivity we’ve observed extremely intense mourning behaviors in orcas. When a males mother dies he stops eating, he cries out for weeks and he may even die himself from stress of grieving. Orcas don’t have much caregiving “instinct” they learn to care give over their offspring and family from their relatives and culture. This allows for complex high empathy social systems and dynamics like in humans. For example male orcas don’t ever truly leave their family. He is tasked with watching over his younger siblings which he’ll do to a borderline martyr like degree. He’ll help is mother deliver and he’ll even watch over his nieces and nephews despite there being no evolutionary need to. He’ll always feed them first. Orcas do not mate within their families. So the only logical explanation is that orcas like in humans have feelings about their family and are bonded to them just like we are. Orcas for this same reason have the capacity to feel emotions towards other animals that they have no direct evolutionary reason to care for. This is why they often will adopt animals like other cetaceans. There’s also the fact that they’ve shown high empathy to humans. Orcas have interacted closely with humans for millennia. Even sometimes helping human cultures like in Australia and the PNW hunt. However they have some of the lowest likeliness of harming a human of any animal even domesticated ones like dogs. They’re compulsive sharers always splitting up their food with others even if it’s the smallest fish in captivity. I could keep going but I think this is long enough. Everything in their behavior is very social and almost altruistic.
Orkid was raised by Corky. Kasatka accepted her into her family, but she was mainly raised by Corky. Corky also 'adopted' Sumar, Splash, Ikaika, and Makani. Orkid didn't 'adopt' Splash, he was her best friend.
Keiko didnt just die, he was lonely. they should've released kiska with him so he could have had a pod. he did learn how to fish for himself, he passed from pneumonia.
i never even thought of this but what a good idea it would be. Unfortunate the free willy franchise never mentions her and she remained obscure and lonely until her death just because her brother was in a movie and she wasnt... :(
I have gone when I was younger but now that I’m an adult I refuse. My family that has kids still go see it though and I don’t think anything I say will ever make them take animals seriously.
I disagree. We already have done so much to the environment, becoming almost god-like in our power to harm, that we must tip the scales back to redress the harm we cause.
Every animal on Earth is far more intelligent than humans think…even invertebrates show signs of understanding complex puzzles, and even engage in play. Some animals seek out humans for help…either for themselves or for their offspring. They watch and study us as much as we do them. Many help, and rescue people in trouble, just as we try to help an animal in danger. We need to re-define “intelligence” before we compound the mess we have already created by speeding up evolution for many, and causing the extinction of many more. We won’t be the only ones with opposable thumbs…and over time, most of the others already have workarounds that work for them.🖤🇨🇦
Omg, this makes me so sad. They shut down the circus, now places like SeaWorld need to be shut down. If people truly cared about these amazing animals they would not keep in captivity.
✨ I recall seeing on David Attenborough once, a pod of orcas that came across a common or bottle nose *dolphin that had such a badly deformed tail end - whether a birth defect or boat strike, idk, but because of it he couldn't swim fast or hunt enough to feed himself so the orcas (I know they're dolphins themselves) took him into the group & fed him as all he could do was slowly trail them on a hunt* .They came across the pod a few times in the following year & they were still taking care of the dependant dolphin, & it made me warm to orcas more than I used to before.
@@stellamaris5405 So beautiful are the creatures of God, Orcas to take of the dolphin. How amazing!! That you for sharing, it brought tears to my eyes, the instinct to know the dolphin need help. ♥️🙏🏻🙌
Back in the early seventies, I lived in San Diego, CA. My brother was working at Sea World. This was before scientists determined that Orcas did not belong in captivity and before the first trainer was killed. Anyway this was when Sea World was allowing Shamu to interact with the public. And my brother was in charge of picking an audience member to receive a kiss from Shamu. I asked him to pick me that day. It was an experience that I will never forget. I haven't been back to Sea World in over 30 years, but I hope that they no longer keep Orcas.
Imagine an alien took you from your home in USA and they decided to release you back in Russia. That must be hard. You don't know anyone in a new environment. That must be hard.
Humans do better! I'm getting so sick of hearing about greedy, terrible humans. This video brought tears to my eyes. No whale or any animals should be treated so cruelly. Leave them where they belong; in the wild
And humans can't figure out why Orcas are attacking boats? As agile as Orcas are I wouldn't want my child looking over a boat railing now that I see this.
They hadn't bee known for attacking boats. If they are it could be a bad relation with the boat. Personally I'd like to think that the released prisoners have been spreading the word on what happened to them.
How many of you saw ocean in real life? As someone living in the foothills of Himalayas, I have seen lots of high grounds and landslides but never an ocean or tsunami! I want to see ocean with my own eyes!
It’s one of the most spectacular experiences you could have in life. Make the effort, you will not be disappointed. BUT you will have to cross many types of people that are sometimes cruel so take care.
The movie orca in question, Keiko, was pronounced Kay-ko. I live were the Free Willy movie was filmed & had the pleasure of seeing Keiko in person at the Newport Bay Aquarium in Oregon before he moved north for release. He was so sweet coming to check out the crowd at his tank window. We all had such hopes. May we learn from this experience.
Man they got to make stricter regulations and laws on capturing these animals they don’t belong in captivity to start with have humans not learned the lessons on what can happen to them while having orcas enclosed in a small concrete pool! There should be very strict laws for all of these sea creatures that roam our oceans they all have such an important role to play in our world and ecosystems! Those poor beluga whales also have to endured such harsh treatment from humans and the saddest thing is that they are also such social animals and yet we sit here and think about how to make a profit from them man this is so damn insane!
There's no need to hold animals like this, we need all countries to comply but that will likely never happen due to less moral cultures, yeah I said it.
At least Xena (not sure if this is how they spell the name) has a happy ending. Orcas in captivity don't do well when they are released most of the time.
I was in British Columbia last year. Our boat was surrounded by an orca pod. They were so beautiful and playful. There were 3 calves in the pod. It was the experience of a lifetime.
I appreciate the video, but resent that you drew us in with a pic of orcas in a circle on the oceans bottom and never linked or explained it. I like your animal ethics and narration, but not your honesty.
Every problem that humans have are human caused.😢 and then we are shocked at these stories, it feels like our species is doomed to destory us all. All animals, too😢
Thanks for the recent videos on orcas and releasing animals back into the wild. Good stuff! Didn't even miss Steve. You don't need him. Keep up the good work.
Whats crazy is the people jumping in the water with them to do tests, surprised at least some of them didn't lash out blindly because of the stress of being in a tiny cold cage.
Humans are responsible for so many deaths of lives of innocent animals in this world it is hard to imagine 😢😢😢 The stories are endless, one is more heartbreaking, than the other… Time to learn. And get wiser. 🐳🐬🐢🐙🦈…😢
Orcas vocalise and when she called out her family probably recognized her call and they met they came together because they recognized her what a beautiful thing
That first beluga: "I'm flying!" I hard "released" a squirrel during the spring. She was born in late summer 2023 and I raised her through to May of this year. Her siblings were released in the fall, but because she was the runt and so socialized (I had to force feed her for a long time before she figured out how to nurse, so she got a lot more handling than the others), I thought I was going to need to keep her. Her release was not ideal. Normally she'd have spent several weeks being soft released, but we were outside and she got off her leash, got scared and wound up in the small strip of forest behind the house. While hoping she'd come back to me (I thought she didn't have the skills to survive on her own) that same evening I observed her meeting another squirrel. There was a quick zipping around in the trees, then she went into a nest with another female and two little ones I figured belonged to that female. This whole interaction took seconds. The only thing I can figure is that she found her sister who had had a small litter that spring. For four days I watched them and not once did she do more than hang out in the trees high above me and watch me. She never got close enough to catch. Every night she'd join the other female in her nest. If she hadn't been accepted into the nest I would still be worrying and hating myself for what happened on her release. I'm just glad things turned out ok.
Oh wow, that communication makes sense. I’m a first generation Mexican born in The states learned Spanish first but English became my dominant language, then while at work I met a central Latin American person and her Spanish and accent was like almost a language barrier lol Yeeeeaaah
The Orka is named Xena. Which means she has the Force is Female power, so she can simply use the Force to survive. We saw on Asoka that a human can exist for hours underwater and still live using the Force is Female, so an Orka, who is female, using their Intersectional Feminist Force Power, could survive for years. She don't need a Man. She don't need a Pod of other Orca. She is a Strong and Independent Wamens Orka named Xena, HERonine of her own story.
