The Truth of Orca Evolution - Part 1 

Orcas are Sapient along with Sperm Whales, Dolphins, Elephants, Certain Cephalopod Species, and Humans.

Everything you said is true. What's also true is that they are the apex predator in the ocean. They kill sharks, granted they only eat the liver and somehow they know they get the best nutrients by eating just the liver

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While they are possibly the most intelligent animal in the sea (we don't know how smart sperm whales are since they can't be studied in human care), a lot of things that are seen as "so cool" are in fact found in many other animals as well. Cattle for example, stay together as mothers and daughters for life. Prairie dogs have the most complex non-human communication ever discovered. Killer whales do have very unique cooperative and innovative hunting, wolves and lions just can't hold a candle to them, but humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins are also innovative and can teach each other new special ways of hunting. What makes killer whales stand out as similar to humans, I realized when I rewatched Namu last year, was that all creatures of our respective realms are scared shitless of us. Everything on land, from tiny birds to huge giraffes and elephants, are scared of humans. Everything in the sea, from small herring to giant sperm whales and great white sharks, are terrified of killer whales.

Imean they feel the most human in a way and that makes me wonder if there are like dumbass orcas that the other orcas think are idiots as well

Keeping any living being in prison should be considered a crime.

My cat will fight you and your whale pal any day.

Do not insult orcas by associating them with humans.

@@planetvegan7843 Sorry loser, Im not a misanthrope.

​@@planetvegan7843 omg ur username says it all lmao, humble yourself you're just an human too and orcas have behaviour that you would say is cruel too tho we have a great relation with them so stop acting like orcas ar3 angel and humans are demons lmao.

Have you seen prehistoric hyenas? It's so fascinating. They are such awesome types of creatures, same with the musteladid family of animals idk if i spelled that right?

I had no idea about hyenas, I figured they were about as smart as Shenzi and Ed

@@NickDBaker , Good Lord no! The spotted hyena is probably the smartest land carnivore. Their clans are larger and far more stable and organized than a chimpanzee troop. In many tests, they are smarter than chimpanzees. They definitely cooperate better for common goals than chimpanzee and dwarf lion intelligence. Interestingly, lions steal hyena kills more often than hyenas steal lion kills. You really should read up on them.

Apparently, in European zoos, they grow a winter coat in response to the cold

@@EternalEmperorofZakuul , I am not at all surprised. Dogs will respond like that depending on the local conditions and after all there is good evidence that they evolved from Asian/European animals, hyenas that appear to be of the same species that lived in very cold areas not all that long ago.

No need for the apostrophe

The recurring theme of land-dwelling animals taking over the oceans is actually kind of hilarious. Whales today are the successors of ichtyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, and mosasaurs when it comes to wrestling the title of sea rulers from sharks.

And apparently seals can tell the difference between fish eating and seal eating orcas

Basically what happened. Ironically, a lot of sources claim the opposite (that the evolution of orcas wiped out these predators, even though orcas didn’t become potential competition until after they were already gone)

​@@bkjeong4302maybe in the future orcas will likely grow to livyatan/perucetus sized whales

I got an image in my mind of Orcas on holiday walking around with cameras around their necks and "I love Canada" tourists t-shirts haha.

@@jamesoshea580 The funny thing is that I had the same thought after I wrote the post! I even reworded it slightly! Originally I wrote 'I too have loved Orcas since I was a kid after seeing them on Holiday in Canada!' 😂👌

Look out, oceans of the future. Neorcinus diablos (a.k.a. the devil whale) is coming.

@@dynojackal1911 hahaha you never know? Creative name 😄

Wait until you learn about octopuses my human

There should be more Killer Whale horror movies.

Possibly a split between the giant mammal eaters and the smaller fish eaters. The largest killer whales are the minke-hunting type A in Antarctica, followed by the sadly nearly extinct North Atlantic "type 2" that lived mainly off Scotland (only two elderly males remain), and the transients on both sides of the Pacific. By comparison, the herring-eating whales in the North Atlantic for example, are much smaller, and have different social structures (males leave upon maturity, for example).

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Ocean Erectus

While funny, probably not best joke to popularize, people might believe it.

@@seraphwithatank6535But it's true.

@@seraphwithatank6535 Yeah, I wasn't joking.

On land there is alot of fighting because of territorial rivaley. I guesd that its fifferent in the ocean.

Great Question!!

I hope Part 2 has a bit about Old Tom!

It's really excessive to insert actual language and culture into their vocalizations. They can learn to mimic each other's vocalizations (as seen with the unrelated Ulises and Nakai at SeaWorld), they can learn to mimic bottlenose dolphin vocalizations (also Ulises, among others) and even human speech (as everything from birds to dogs also have done), there is no reason to think they transmit information of the sort we do when talking. We've been studying killer whales intensely both in the wild and human care for over 50 years, yet the only time it's been scientifically described that a non-human animal tells another to do something with sound, was orangutan mothers telling their young of danger. Killer whales are awesome but they are the most hopelessly anthropomorphized animal. The most "human" thing I can find about their vocalizations is that the babies "babble", before they learn to communicate like the adults, but so do parrots.

@@Aethuviel I am fairly certain that orcas have been shown to have differences in their vocalizations from pod to pod or region to region that are akin to dialects, and there is plenty of proof they each have individual clicks for each other, aka names. If orcas can transmit culture, which we know they can, oral history isn't out of the question.

Thank you for your video! I can't wait for part 2. They're fascinating creatures. Will check out your mother's channel!

It's really odd that killer whales have not yet been classified even into different subspecies, only the other year was the Antarctic type D finally recognized as possibly a different species. They live in permanent populations all over the world, from the residents in Alaska, BC and Washington, the Bigg's from Alaska-Mexico and the offshores in the same waters (mysterious and almost nothing is known of them), in the Galapagos, at least two populations in Argentina, in the Caribbean, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and Norway, off Iberia, Gibraltar, South Africa (they hunt great whites), the Indian Ocean, some very unique whales in Antarctica (4-5 distinct types), Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Russia. Yet all the ecotype posters only give us "here are the Antarctic types, the North Atlantic types, and the American pacific coast types". They vary in maximum sizes from 6 to 9.5 meters. Some eat only herring, some specialize in large whales, and everything in between. Their markings and social behaviors are very different, with the mammal-eaters usually living in much smaller, transient groups of 3-5 individuals, the fish-eaters in larger pods in a few dozen, and the shark-eating offshores (American pacific coast) supposedly in large pods of 100+. Yet they're all just called "Orcinus orca".

The same thing applies to different human races. It’s not so hard to imagine when you look at it that way.

Facts

My cat would win. 😸

Can the cat fight goku

It really makes so much sense

There used to be many more, but they have since gone extinct.

By group, yes.

indeed

They have eye sockets because they have eyes. The same reason you have eye sockets.

May I ask why? Like genuinely with no ill intent.

It’s a toothed whale

Basically, yeah. Another group is the raptorial sperm whales like livyatan and zygophaseter, which was basically the orca of it's time. Baleen whales also weren't that big until recently so they had plenty of potential enemies.