A group of orcas damaged a sailing boat off the coast of Spain, straying from their historically peaceful nature.
A sailing boat was making headway to Gibraltar in the early hours of Thursday when a group of orcas pierced the boat’s hull and broke the rudder. A rapid-response vessel was deployed to assist the 66-foot British vessel and towed it to the port of Barbate, in the province of Cadiz, for repairs., leading researchers to question why the killer whale, which is a historically peaceful mammal, has suddenly begun attacking sailing vessels. But one researcher in Portugal thinks he may have the answer.
The attacks may have stemmed from an orca who scientists call White Gladis, when she experienced a “critical moment of agony” involving a boat, Alfredo López Fernandez, a marine biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, told . “That traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of physical contact with the boat,” he said, adding, “The orcas are doing this on purpose.” But other researchers are not so sure.Andrew W. Trites, a professor and director of Marine Mammal Research at the University of British Columbia toldthat he doesn’t believe the whales are retaliating.
Shields confirmed that orcas are generally gentle beings, not known for being aggressive toward humans, even when they were being attacked and placed in captivity. “They’ve certainly had reason to engage in that kind of behavior,” she told the outlet. “There are places where they are shot at by fishermen, they’ve watched family members be taken from their groups into captivity in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
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