Seit 2020 werden immer wieder Zwischenfälle mit Orcas an der Straße von Gibraltar gemeldet. Nun hat eine Gruppe von Tieren eine 15-Meter-Jacht versenkt, die Besatzung wurde gerettet. Experten gibt das Verhalten Rätsel auf.
I finally made the trek to meet Bruunidun. She’s a #ThomasDambo giant #troll making her home next to Puget Sound in Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Idun is playing a troll sized flute to call home native #Orcas.
Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
A pod of about a dozen orcas was trapped by drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. The orcas managed to free themselves as gaps between the ice grew