A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?
Yeah, they’re attacking boats, because we won’t stop fucking up their environment.
These are intelligent animals and this is learned behaviour.
The rotors of ships are cutting them open, gasoline leaks make the sea inhabitable for them and radar pings are basically fucking up their brains hard.
Like the article states, they could attack divers but won’t. They’re peaceful…
This is their last stand and they know it. Give it a couple of decades and most of marine life will be gone for good…
Yeah, absolutely. In my opinion this is a big part of what makes this emerging field of “digital bioacoustics” so interesting and important. If we are better able to understand the communication of other species then maybe we will be more likely to think a bit more clearly about how we treat them and the rock we are all sharing.
I’m currently reading How to Speak Whale and they talk a bit in there about how just getting the fact that whales were singing songs into the minds of the general public was enough to get us to put population saving policies in place. I like to think decoding animal language could take us another step in that direction.
The documentary Seaspiracy shows a lot of what we are currently doing to our oceans, and how much life we have already wiped out. It also shows some of what some people are doing to combat our negative effects in hopes of saving what life there is that remains.
Yeah, they’re attacking boats, because we won’t stop fucking up their environment.
These are intelligent animals and this is learned behaviour.
The rotors of ships are cutting them open, gasoline leaks make the sea inhabitable for them and radar pings are basically fucking up their brains hard.
Like the article states, they could attack divers but won’t. They’re peaceful…
This is their last stand and they know it. Give it a couple of decades and most of marine life will be gone for good…
Yeah, absolutely. In my opinion this is a big part of what makes this emerging field of “digital bioacoustics” so interesting and important. If we are better able to understand the communication of other species then maybe we will be more likely to think a bit more clearly about how we treat them and the rock we are all sharing.
I’m currently reading How to Speak Whale and they talk a bit in there about how just getting the fact that whales were singing songs into the minds of the general public was enough to get us to put population saving policies in place. I like to think decoding animal language could take us another step in that direction.
The documentary Seaspiracy shows a lot of what we are currently doing to our oceans, and how much life we have already wiped out. It also shows some of what some people are doing to combat our negative effects in hopes of saving what life there is that remains.