Wild Orca Imitates Outboard Motor

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This one comes to us straight from the bizarre animal behaviour department. Thanks to Fhernando for sending me the link.

Luna was a little wild orca-boy who lost his family and, after that, started to look for contact with people which, in my opinion, is the best example of orca’s demand for social intercourse. Just like people. It’s a very important demand for people. And it seems the same important for orcas. Luna left alone, he was boring, and started to contact with people. It’s interesting how they understand that people (and maybe some other animals, like dogs) are the same intelligent beings. Amazing is that even little orca-kids understand and distinguish people from other beings. Maybe did Luna learned something from his family, adult orcas? Maybe do they have a sort of lessons like in a school where adult orcas teach the kids not only rules of survival and hunting, but some basic knowledge about the world in general? For example, maybe they teach their kids that people are intelligent beings like orca and it’s not good to attack people and consider them as prey. Maybe, it explains that there are no any records of attacking people by orcas in the wild. Lucky for us :))

Saving Salmon

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I gave up on listening to the radio years ago. Although I’m a huge music fan, I got tired of listening to the same songs over and over on the radio. I used to just listen to CDs or my iPod, but a few years ago I fell in love with talk radio, specifically CBC Radio. Even what its bad, its still pretty good, and if not, at least I feel like I’ve learned something. Every now and then, there are some excellent guests, and last week I was fortune enough to hear the incredible words of Alexandra Morton, an expert on the study of wild orcas in British Columbia. A decade ago her focus moved to salmon, the main food source for orcas, and what she has learned should really be heard by everyone who cares about saving salmon

Click the image to listen, or follow the link at the bottom.

via CBC Radio