No, male orcas stick with their mothers for pretty much their entire lives. Tilikum was abused in captivity by two female orcas who would rake him (run their teeth along his flanks) to demonstrate their dominance. Orcas live in matriarchal pods. It’s even been noted that orca mothers apparently serve as matchmakers…
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In Blackfish they made a point to say that no Orca, in the wild, has ever killed a human being. There is no record of this anywhere. The documentary stated it was ironic that they were called Killer Whales, because other than their food, they don’t just go around killing things for no reason. However, this Orca killed…
I’m well aware that the wild is a crazy-ass deathtrap.
Granny’s age was not unknown, just uncertain. 105 +- 12 years, according to the article in the Seattle Times.
Female orcas may have longer lifespans than males, though.
A well-known orca in the Southern resident population is presumed to have died recently. She was, possibly, up to 105 years old. The life span of a wild orca is 60 to 90 years old.
Orcas and other cetaceans are done for anyway. With Trudeau supporting the Kinder Morgan pipeline and the EPA about to be gutted, the wild orcas don’t have much time left. Add to that the Southern Residents lost several members last year, including Doublestuf who appears to have died from blunt force trauma.
I’m sorry, but who among us would not fuck Harrison Ford, especially Han Solo-Harrison Ford? It is for this reason (as well as murder Hitler when he was just a shitty art student, and someone else I won’t mention in case the Feds are watching) I would build a fucking time machine. To fuck Han Solo/Raiders of the Lost…
Telling my husband not to come back and changing the locks was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. I had found one instance of his Craigslist activities months before and was trying to figure out what to do, but that day, he didn’t log out of his other email account, and I saw that he had been sleeping with…
I left my husband a month ago. Because he was mean and shitty and I didn’t want to talk to him anymore. I can’t even imagine that + cancer the next morning. You’re a bad mamajama.
Are we twins? I was just explaining to someone, very young, why we will be hearing about Clinton and Obama indefinitely. They will be the blame for every single fuck up that the POS and republicans do. They never take responsibility for anything. Ever.
Worst week of my life? Probably two years ago. One night I told my husband of over a decade that I was going to leave, because he was mean to me and made me afraid of him.
The worst week of my life was when I found out that I was not only crippled for life, but that it had been done to me on purpose by a doctor who had decided to misdiagnose my injury (and the injuries of countless others). He did this because it allowed him & his practice to perform procedures that would make my pain…
When I was 18 years old I had a ton of money saved up from working summers before college. My friends and I decided to do a trip to england on our own money and stay with my family’s friends there.
On election day this week, I found out that I got an interview with Boeing for a paid internship this summer. I was elated. It is literally the path to my dream job. I was prepared to get smashingly drunk that night to celebrate getting an interview opportunity and seeing the first woman President. We bought champagne…
I know I am not the only one who has spent the last 4 days blindingly drunk, but I actually called into work today just to specifically get crap housed again. I am a chef at a country club and I don’t know if I can make food for a bunch of Trump supporters anymore. I seriously don’t know if I can do it anymore.
Though I certainly understand why he chose not to, I honestly wish Biden had run- and please don’t take that as anti-Hillary, because I have a lot of faith in her. But I often think that Biden would not only wipe the floor with Trump, but do it in such an all encompassing policy and straight-talk smackdown way that…
Fuck anyone questioning timing of this. He fucking triple dog dared these women to come forward with his supposed respect for women. Here’s a man used to doing whatever he wants, to whoever he wants knowing they cannot do anything back because court is expensive as fuck. This is such a beautiful thing to witness.
Something like this happened to me when I was thirteen. I was groped in an elevator by the father of a classmate. I never told anyone except for a couple of friends when I was in college. I feel people will dismiss this woman’s account because “it’s not like he raped her,” or this does not “count as assault” or maybe…
My heart broke into one thousand pieces for this woman. my god. MY GOD. I CANNOT.