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We're going back to the usual setup this week. I have not chosen a specific news article to go over with you

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So we got feel good including UFOs because they make us feel good feel bad same amount of bad news

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I don't think that any bad news has been added to it just in case that

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No bad news is taking place. It's the class looked. Yeah. Oh, I got pretty sure this is bad. Is that a new one?

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That's a new one feeling uncertain. Can't choose between good or bad feelings. I also haven't memorized these

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I need to scroll down and read them as I go and we got feeling like science, you know, let's do a feel good

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Feel good. Okay. Have we had an update on orcas recently? I think the last update would have been in the New Year's Eve episode

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Let's go with it. They're my favorite guys right now. So this is on live science live science the debate continues

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We refuse to look it up

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How would you look it up though? And this one's titled orcas are learning terrifying new behaviors

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Are they getting smarter or are they the regular amount of smart that they always were that was my addition to the title

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If we just discredit how smart they were to begin with exactly we just underestimated the orcas

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These are my new heroes of planet earth. I feel like they're here to avenge

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something bad

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billionaires from sinking boats and

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feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun orcas are displaying some

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Fascinating and sometimes terrifying behaviors this article is from October 22nd

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2023 by Sasha pair for live life science in March 2019 researchers off the coast of southwestern, Australia

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Witnessed a gruesome scene a dozen orcas ganging up on one of the biggest creatures on earth to kill it the orcas

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Devoured huge chunks of flesh from the flanks of an adult blue whale which died an hour later

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Oh, this is a sad story. This was the first ever documented case of orca on blue whale predation

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But it wouldn't be the last in recent months orcas have been spotted abducting baby pilot whales and tearing open sharks to feast on

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Their livers and off the coast of Spain in Portugal a small population of orcas has begun ramming and sinking boats

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Are they like solely attacking sharks just for their livers in certain places? Yes, they're like finding

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Shark corpses without livers. That's so weird all of these incidents show just how clever these apex predators are

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These are animals with an incredibly complex and highly evolved brain

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Deborah Gillies an orca researcher at the University of Washington and the nonprofit wild orca told live science live science live

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Live science. They've got parts of their brain that are associated with memory and the emotion that are

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Significantly more developed than ever in the human brain in quote

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I didn't start the quote, but that's where the quote ends

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But the scale and novelty of recent attacks have raised a question are orcas getting smarter and if so, what's driving the shift?

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It's not likely that orcas brains are changing on an anatomical level said Josh McKinnis a marine ecologist who studies orcas at the University of British

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Columbia behavioral changes can influence anatomical change in an animal or population

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But only over thousands of years of evolution McKinnis told live science

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I guess that means that they are always this diabolical and that's exactly how I would describe them

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I hypothesized that we took the dumbest of them captured them and put them in our tanks for our entertainment and the smart ones

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Survived that trickery only to make the species outside in the wild smarter

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And if they're that smart only the dumb ones are gonna get abducted. Yeah, the dumb ones can't breathe now exactly

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Um, well, I think we're on to something but orcas are fast learners

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Which means they can and do teach each other some terrifying tricks and thus becoming quote smarter as a group

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Still some of these seemingly new tricks may in fact be age old behaviors that humans are only

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Documenting now and just like in humans some of these learned behaviors become trends ebbing and flowing in social waves waves

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Frequent interactions with humans through boat traffic and fishing activities may also drive orcas to learn new behaviors

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And the more their environment shifts the faster orcas must respond and rely on social learning to persist

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There's no question that orcas learn from each other many of the skills these animals teach and share related to their role as highly evolved apex predators

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Scientists described orcas killing and eating blue whales are the first time in a study published last year in the months and years that followed the first

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Attack in March 2019 orcas preyed on a blue whale calf and juvenile in two additional incidents pushing the young blue whales below the surface to

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Suffocate them this newly documented hunting behaviors is an example of social learning with strategies being shared and passed on from adult

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Orcas to their young Robert Pittman a marine ecologist at Oregon State University

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Marine mammal Institute told live science in an email

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Anything the adults learn will be passed along from the dominant female in the pod tour offspring

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He said taking down a blue whale requires cooperation and coordination Pittman said orcas

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May have learned and refined the skills needed to tackle such enormous prey in response to the recovery of whale populations from whaling

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This know-how was then passed on until the orcas became highly skilled at hunting even the largest animals on earth Pittman said it goes on

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I like this quote killer whales are like humans and that they have their preferred cuts of meat Pittman said when preying on large whales

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They almost always take the tongue first and sometimes that is what they will feed on

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It does seem like a big feat to take down such a massive animal

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But it should also be noted that this very large animal feeds on plankton like it doesn't have real defenses

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Others than just being massive hunting. It seems impressive. I can't foresee it being that hard on an orca

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You hunted big whale. Yeah, no, I mean the orcas are like

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Well, they're smart for one not only are they smart. They also are assholes

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It turns out we probably should have been capturing the assholes of their society to make them a nicer species

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What if they're all assholes and jokes on us?

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We got the dumb ass because not that we should be capturing any of them here was what I was gonna say

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I wonder if anybody ever considered speaking to the orcas instead of twain twain seem to have came in peace

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I wonder what the orcas would have had to say for themselves because they're they seem to be pretty advanced

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Yeah, although to be fair, they're not assholes to humans

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Like I've said before there's no recorded death by a killer whale in the wild in human history

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Of course that might play into the orcas are smarter than we realize and that they have a way of

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Changing human history to make them seem like nice guys

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The article does go on for quite a long time after this and it's a mini so you know

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We have time constraints on this mini and this was just a taste of just how intelligent and

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Underestimated orcas actually are in a larger piece of the story to do with our heroes

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Going after the billionaire yachts off of Spain

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Unfortunately, they do have a taste too for shark as their populations have dwindled what with our love of shark fin soup

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Hopefully we can get that figured out but in the meantime, I need to stress in the next 48 hours

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Nobody should be eating shark nor after that, but the 48 hours is what I have to talk to you about

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Put the shark down put it back in the water. I know you want to take a big bite out of that raw shark put it back

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We'll see you in 48 hours. Bye. Bye