Can whales eat humans?

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• ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Orcas (so called “killer whales”) aren’t whales at all, they’re actually dolphins.

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  • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cladistically dolphins are a type of toothed whale. They’re more closely related to species like sperm whales than toothed whales and baleen whales are to each other.

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on how your language classifies their names I guess.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cetaceans technically, dolphins being the most well-known cetacean.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re Orcas, not “Killer whales”.

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re Maine Coons, not ‘House Cats’

    They’re just commonly understood colloquial names.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Iirc it was a mistranslation and the actual name translated to whale killer.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you saying the Bible is a lie?

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tbh the guy famously survived

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, people didn’t exist back then.

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• huf@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  no, it’s illegal to eat humans.

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• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t believe the woke mob is coming for Pinocchio /s

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• thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, whales don’t attack humans in the wild

  Only at theme parks

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …yet

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The orca would rip you to bits before eating you.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, the last documented orca attack in the wild was in the 1800s. The orca but the human once and spit the guy out. Didn’t even sever the arm that got bitten. Orcas as a species will eat anything in the water, including the occasional polar bear, except us. Individual Orcas have very narrow diets depending on the pod. Their eating habits are fascinating if you look into them.

    Now if the orca was put into a fishbowl, and forced to do tricks while in solitary confinement? Well PTSD is a motherfucker.

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• nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  sure but if i’m in the position where the silver lining is “that whale can’t actually swallow you” i feel like i’m already done for.
  if nothing else i can’t imagine that being in the mouth of a whale would be good for my micromort intake

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• xilliah@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🤔 What does a diver taste like?

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I heard a story a while back about A SCUBA diver that was sort of swallowed by a whale. He was allegedly all the way in, then the whale spat him out and he was only bruised. It appeared to be an accident. But if I remember correctly, the credibility of the story was in question.

  Sooooo… not sure why I answered. Well I’m this far now…

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• Dufurson@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only hope

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