They’re Orcas, not “Killer whales”.
Can whales eat humans?
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
They’re Maine Coons, not ‘House Cats’
They’re just commonly understood colloquial names.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Iirc it was a mistranslation and the actual name translated to whale killer.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are you saying the Bible is a lie?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
tbh the guy famously survived
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Yes, people didn’t exist back then.
huf@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
no, it’s illegal to eat humans.
Infynis@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Can’t believe the woke mob is coming for Pinocchio /s
thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Don’t worry, whales don’t attack humans in the wild
Only at theme parks
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
…yet
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The orca would rip you to bits before eating you.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 intakexilliah@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
🤔 What does a diver taste like?
Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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…
Dufurson@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
I only hope
ooterness@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Orcas (so called “killer whales”) aren’t whales at all, they’re actually dolphins.
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Depends on how your language classifies their names I guess.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Cetaceans technically, dolphins being the most well-known cetacean.