A recent study assessed the hypothesis that killer whales (Orcinus orca) are preying on their own species.
Researchers found two examples of severed killer whale fins bearing telltale marks of killer whale bites, both on Russia’s Pacific coast off Bering Island. Discovered just over a mile apart, the fins were from a juvenile killer whale and an adult female or juvenile male, respectively. The spacing and size of the fresh bite scars pointed to an act of killer whale predation.
An obvious question is whether the bite marks were evidence of a fight rather than premeditated murder. But, “if it was just aggression, they wouldn’t bother to tear off the fin,” reasoned study author and whale biologist Olga Filatova in a press release. When killer whales hunt, they tend to go for the richer body parts like organs, leaving fins and other low-energy parts behind. So, the detached fins suggested an act of predation—a fin torn off to access the soft body parts.
>>5119010(OP) >if it was just aggression, they wouldn’t bother to tear off the fin that does make sense thought what a bullshit article
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Anonymous04/25/26(Sat)08:24:37
>>5119023 did you read the rest of the paragraph? orcas tear off the fin during predation to access the softer body parts for consumption. That's how they hunt sharks, porpoises, other cetaceans, etc.
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Anonymous04/25/26(Sat)10:19:50
>>5119026 >That's how they hunt sharks, porpoises, other cetaceans, etc It isn’t though. Large sharks have their abdominal cavity split open so the liver can be removed, while large cetaceans like minke whales have their tongues/lower jaw eaten. In both cases the rest of the body is discarded with fins intact. Smaller prey like porpoises are consumed entirely. If this was the result of cannibalism then the removal of dorsal fins is new behaviour
>>5119050 You think this is the result of aggressive play rather than predation?...
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Anonymous04/25/26(Sat)12:46:17
>>5119054 this is what Megalodon did to orca ancestors back in the day
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Anonymous04/25/26(Sat)13:54:01
>>5119054 You say that as if orcas don’t regularly pummel other animals to death and rip them to shreds during play. Also I didn’t say that it wasn’t predation, just that if it is then it’s completely different behaviour to what we see when they hunt sharks, porpoises, etc
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Anonymous04/25/26(Sat)15:47:43
>>5119080 If it was predation, then it was cannibalism
>>5119010(OP) Brothers and sisters are natural enemies Like sperm whales and orcas Or humpbacks and orcas Or minke whales and orcas Or orcas and other orcas Damn orcas, they ruin the ocean!
>>5119054 why does it need to be just aggressive play, I bet there are situations where orcas just straight up murder each other for other reasons than eating the opponent. and tearing off fins seem like a great way to incapacitate another orca
>>5119142 I don't see how that makes them different from any other animal, especially humans. btw I'm not basing this on anything but I bet humans aversion to cannibalism is mostly a cultural thing, I bet grugg didn't give a shit about chomping on another human, or at least ones that didn't belong to his own tribe
>>5119297 >I bet grugg didn't give a shit about chomping on another human, or at least ones that didn't belong to his own tribe Neanderthals for one apparently preferred not to: there are a few examples of cannibalized remains, but they're rare and sloppily butchered (indicating far less experience at dressing the carcass than that of other animals), so it's unlikely to have been common and more probably only done in dire conditions where no other food was available, potentially on those who had already perished (not unlike what happened with the Donner party or Franklin expedition)
>>5119297 >jews drink human blood from the child’s penis during bris >Africans practice voodoo and eat their enemies / rival tribesmen Outside of that I don’t think humans are cannibals at all, unless you’re climbing some uncharted mountain and get caught in an avalanche and have to eat your dead comrade to survive.
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Anonymous04/26/26(Sun)15:57:07
>>5119297 >bro they’re just like humans We have to maintain nation scale societies or be killed/enslaved by people who do
Orca are atomized tribes of 80 IQ aquatic retards that our rich scientists like to jerk off to and may as well be any other fish
Whatever is natural or apparently logically the same between humans and orcas, morally, isn’t. What is acceptable or advantageous behavior for an orca is not and will never be conducive to human life.
>>5119314 That aside, habitual cannibals tend to be conquered or killed by other humans and only survive in isolation because humans dont want to be eaten, and prion diseases are a bitch.
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Anonymous04/26/26(Sun)18:17:18
>>5119347 The mexican dish posole, pic rel, used to be made with human meat.
The Spanish conquistadors made the natives switch to using pork. It was said that the taste of the posole did not change.
>>5119303 >>5119359 I thought prion disease only is a thing if you eat the brain
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Anonymous04/26/26(Sun)20:37:46
>>5119414 Yep, specifically from someone that already has it
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)06:29:18
>>5119010(OP) sick fucks, same for everyone defending this behavior
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)11:20:46
>>5119010(OP) They attack our yachts, and now this?
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)14:53:15
>>5119347 Victorians were really into eating mummies. And of course the medieval practice of eating the part of the body you had an illment on.
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)14:59:57
>>5119632 >Victorians were really into eating mummies. Proof?
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)15:30:32
>>5119633 To correct the other anon, Europeans (not Victorians, but earlier) ate a lot of mummies as a "medicinal" practice. So many that it nearly depleted the world's supply of mummies, I believe. This happened for multiple centuries. Here's the "proof" you wanted but this was easy to google: https://explorersweb.com/why-rich-europeans-ate-up-all-the-egyptian-mummies/ https://theconversation.com/why-did-people-start-eating-egyptian-mummies-the-weird-and-wild-ways-mummy-fever-swept-through-europe-177551 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2540910?seq=1 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)18:45:18
>>5119639 Yeah this didn’t happen and if it somehow did it was jews. Just like the “white” slaver ships.
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)22:16:36
>>5119680 I mean if you wanna see it that way, that's fine, but it doesn't really add anything useful to the conversation.
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Anonymous04/27/26(Mon)22:35:02
>>5119680 >what an american education does to a mf
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Anonymous04/28/26(Tue)14:57:08
>>5119639 damn, Europeans are nasty. You'll never see a Chinese or Korean person doing that.
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)08:25:36
>>5119010(OP) dayummm they really are just like us, I'm black btw
>>5119962 I'm too autistic to pick up on sarcasm so I'll throw in that the Chinese loved to eat one another throughout history and wrote about it a lot, and North Korea had a famine in the 1990s that supposedly had everyone and his grandma munching on orphans.
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)14:25:21
>>5119962 >he hasn’t seen the chinese human butchers
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)17:18:39
>>5119743 That’s the exact opposite of what American education teaches tho.
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)17:53:41
>>5120266 Rather that's what a lack of education in America does. >>5119680 is most likely from the South where they view education as a librul conspiracy and thus have the worst reading/writing/math scores in the country. Funny thing is that that poster probably voted for that orange pedophile that's the biggest Jew enabler on the planet.
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)18:02:58
>>5120285 The slave ships actually were owned by jews. Also, kamala literally promised war with iran (and open borders) and was supportive of all the covid bullshit so imagine, for a second, believing america is a democracy. You do not get to choose. Your vote does not count. They can add or remove millions of votes at will. Non citizens vote. People vote multiple times. Dead people vote. Votes appear and vanish as needed. You do not live in a democracy. You have no power. You have no rights. Your rulers system is decentralized and utilizes hidden leadership. They are immune to political violence. You have no friends, no one is on your side, and no one is coming to save you. You lost. You are a serf.
When you accept this politics will make sense and you’ll stop being a bitch about redteam blueteam.
You are a serf. All of you are purposefully oppressed. De-educated. De-industrialized. Replaced with labor scabs, so they can be replaced by labor scabs. You only exist to provide a moral justification for the financialized debt economy. Otherwise you’re a waste of air. If you ever produced something it would promptly be turned into corn farming or a useless tech company providing nothing of practical value except for surveillance and taxable rent and debt. Deal with it.
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)18:39:45
>>5120288 >The slave ships actually were owned by jews. Proofs????
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)19:50:06
>>5120288 >The slave ships actually were owned by jews what I don't get about this one, even if every single slave ship was owned by jews and every slaver was a jew and the entire slavetrade was a jewish business, it doesn't make the act of buying and keeping these slaves any better
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)21:06:07
>>5120310 Don't try and make sense of incel logic. They literally got it from a /pol/troon infographic. I know exactly the one. I've never seen any credible source and we won't see one ITT
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)21:19:48
>>5120326 >White people did not invent slavery and weren’t the sole people to blame for slavery. Every ethnic and religious group did the same thing. We should let the past be the past instead of trying to use historical tragedy to justify racial hatred. >INCEL NONSENSE! WHITE MEN ARE THE PROBLEM! With leftists like this running around trump is guaranteed a third and fourth term solely because no one on the blue team is willing to put freaks like you in their place. Thank you for supporting ULTRA MAGA!
If you mald at this post don will bomb tehran again
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)21:51:29
>>5120328 See what I mean? 2 posts I've brought up talking about a source and the incel still can't provide one.
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)21:56:02
>>5120336 Repeat after me: White people did not invent slavery and weren’t the sole people to blame for slavery. Every ethnic and religious group did the same thing. We should let the past be the past instead of trying to use historical tragedy to justify racial hatred
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)23:07:39
Libs: owned Trump: elected America: great again Israel: safe Iran: bombed Palestine: imaginary Animal cruelty: federal crime Our bacon: saved Wolves: shot Bears: blasted Cougars: capped Fish: bout yea big Leaves: raked Lawn: mowed Nature: doing ok after a brief recovery period Yep, it’s freedom time.
USA USA USA USA
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Anonymous04/29/26(Wed)23:28:15
>>5120337 3 posts. You'd think he'd provide one already just to shut me up but lolnope
>>5119054 >aggressive play Nobody said it was play you colossal retard
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Anonymous04/30/26(Thu)10:09:01
>>5119010(OP) Well they're not called sparer whales...
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Anonymous05/01/26(Fri)00:12:51
>>5119054 This could be taken as evidence of orcas engaging in warfare to eradicate a competing pod. We already know chimps do it and orcas have similar mental capacity.
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Anonymous05/01/26(Fri)00:17:57
>>5119103 No it wouldn’t be cannibalism because resident and Bigg’s killer whales are different species. That’s like saying a coyote eating a pomeranian is cannibalism