Are Orca Whales Friends or Foes?
Science Quickly
Scientific American
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Orgus have been all over the news recently. |
| 0:24.5 | A playful orca has cheekily splashed a man. |
| 0:27.3 | The latest on the series of Orca's... |
| 0:29.3 | Orca's killer whales. |
| 0:31.3 | Earlier this year, the story of Orcus ramming into yachts off the Spanish coast kind of took off. |
| 0:35.6 | As are attacking and sinking both of a harrowing killer whale encounter at sea. |
| 0:41.0 | People on the internet were calling them allies hoping they would sink |
| 0:44.0 | billionaires and making other jokes about Orca's being behind the Titans |
| 0:47.3 | immersible tragedy. Then there are stories of Orca's ripping apart |
| 0:51.0 | great white sharks and antagonizing all sorts of sea creatures from minky |
| 0:55.0 | whales to porpoises. |
| 0:57.0 | I found it fascinating that these hero and villain narratives exist at the same time, that these charming, silly, sympathetic animals could just as easily be cast as mean |
| 1:05.8 | bullies. So to answer my question, I thought I'd ask some killer whale scientist to humor me. |
| 1:11.1 | In a game show I'm calling |
| 1:13.0 | Organize, friends or foes. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Curin Leong and you're listening to science quickly. Ladies and gentlemen, see enthusiasts and skeptics alike, welcome to this one time and one time only game show. I'm your host |
| 1:35.6 | Karin and today we're diving into an exhilarating journey that will challenge |
| 1:39.9 | your perceptions of one of the ocean's most iconic inhabitants. Are they allies or total |
| 1:45.8 | assholes? Welcome to Orca's friends or foes. For years we've been fascinated by these magnificent creatures, but today we're delving deeper. |
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