Orca Talks to a Motorboat


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A killer whale named Luna was separated from his family and lived off the coast of Vancouver Island until his death in 2006. He was friendly with people in boats who went out to visit him, but did he like the people or the boats? In this video, he is imitating the sound of a boat motor. Was he trying to communicate with the boat? Read more about the orca at Wikipedia. Link -via Buzzfeed


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This actually makes a terrible amount of sense now. Luna died as a result of a collision with a tugboat and its incredibly powerful engine blades.
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Maybe he's mentally challenged and doesnt know it's a boat, maybe it's like me walking up to a tree and trying to have a conversation my making leaves in the wind noises.
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He's saying "You know the machine you have there that makes this sound...'PPPppppffffffff'? Could you, like, stop running it in these waters? I have to live in this area and you're choking it up with gas and oil residue, assholes. It'd be like me coming into your living room and farting. Knock it off, butt-heads. Thank you."
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My mum worked in London during the war and for some years after - she remembers the pea-souper fogs. She said you couldn't see your hand in front of your face and that bus drivers had to have someone hanging out of the window following the kerb.
She also remembers a particularly cold winter just after the war when pigeons were dying on the wing and just falling out of the sky at you.
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Yeah underpantsgnome, that's exactly what I was thinking!! According to the first article on waterspouts, they are just condensation, but the next ones about raining red and the next about raining fish, say just the opposite!! I hate this kind of conflicting evidence. It makes mores sense to me that something supernatural is happening in the last two cases.
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Yeah, I just always assumed that waterspouts were responsible for that frogs and fish nonsense was true until I read the skeptoid article linked above. So it's a little disappointing when Neatorama fails to research these things and set the record straight.

In conclusion: Needs more googling!
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Cola, researchers often develop theories based on what information is available to them at the time. Right now those theories are the most widely accepted by scientists and even the skeptic's article had comments contradicting his facts. As I said in the intro, many of these have yet to be fully understood.
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