Teen orcas just want to have fun…by sinking yachts.
Since 2017, there have been regular “attacks” on boats in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Orcas have been ramming themselves into boats to the point that they actually sunk at least four boats. One boat off the Strait of Gibraltar was sunk just this past May. Especially during COVID lockdown, it was hard to not interpret the orca incidents as killer whales protesting humanity. Turns out though that despite over 670 “interactions” over the past four years, the orcas haven’t actually turned into a rogue Extinction Rebellion chapter. And no, the orcas don’t look at sunbathers on luxury yachts like lobsters to be picked out of a tank for dinner. According to a new report by the Atlantic Orca Working Group (GTOA), Shamu’s Iberian cousins are just playing.
Imagine being an extra bored teen that’s going through a growth spurt to weigh 16 tons. They don’t have Play Stations underwater so what’s a young orca to do? Not hunting. There’s been an explosion in the bluefin tuna population, so the pod of about 40 critically endangered Iberian orcas don’t have to chase after every meal they spot. As a result, there’s been extra free-time for developing some hobbies. As one of the smartest creatures on the planet, this curious bunch needs some mental stimulation.
Out of the 40, there’s been a core group of 15 mischief makers that have been taking part in what is the orca equivalent of a TikTok challenge. All of the orcas are either juveniles or adolescents, and overwhelmingly they’re male. Once one cool orca started bumping rudders, all the others started modeling his behavior. The problem is they’ve all been getting much bigger, leading to the unintended mayhem.
Apparently, just like humans, killer whales are susceptible to being influenced by trendsetters. In the 1980s, one hipster orca in the Puget Sound was spotted wearing a fish as a hat. Then, within two months, orcas from three neighboring pods were sporting fish hats. Then they stopped suddenly, as if the dead fish were no longer considered chic. Another group of male orcas like to move fishermen’s prawn and crab traps around. Scientists are fairly certain this is purely in fun as they don’t typically eat crabs or prawn. In other words, the orcas don’t intend any harm, but maybe stay out of their way until they find a new trend to follow.
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a never before seen organelle found in life called nitroplast
Links: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s…
Coccolithophores:
• Coccolithophore Evolution Is Driven B…
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0:00 Complexity of life
0:40 Symbiosis and organelles
2:35 Another organelle from more recent times
3:30 Endosymbiotic theory
4:00 Nitrogen and plants
5:15 New organelle that fixes nitrogen
5:50 Strange organism that possesses this
8:00 Confirmations
8:40 Important organism overall
9:20 Using this for plants?
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Chase the blues away and be tickled pick in another episode of Words Unravelled. In this edition Rob and Jess explore the origins of a whole spectrum of color words (or as Rob calls them, “colour words”).
🌸Does pink really exist?
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⚫️Can black actually mean white?
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These questions answered and many more in Words Unravelled 🌈
Stories of what Bruce Springsteen’s iconic song means to people around the world.
“Dancing in the Dark was written under duress!” Bruce Springsteen tells us. “I had no interest, whatsoever, in writing any more. I had been killing myself for a year and half or two years just to write what we had, much less trying to write another song! All I could do was write another song about not wanting to write another song”.
“I get up in the evening / And I ain’t got nothing to say” – By 1984, Bruce Springsteen had been recording songs for his album Born in the U.S.A. for two years. He felt the album was finished, but producer Jon Landau told Springsteen that the album still didn’t have a lead single. “I’ve written 70 songs for this album,” Bruce responded. “You want another one, you can write it yourself.” Two nights later, back in the hotel after a recording session, Bruce sat on the bed with an acoustic guitar and played Jon Dancing in the Dark – he’d written the song in just 40 minutes. They went into the studio the next night with the E Street Band and cut the song in just a few takes: “When you have a great song sometimes they can be the easiest to record,” Jon tells us.
“I ain’t nothing but tired / Man, I’m just tired and bored with myself” – Kieran Leonard’s mum was a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. He remembers her putting his music on loud to clean the house on a Saturday (and to force the kids out of bed to help) but he could never connect to the music himself. Through his twenties Kieran felt stuck and lost and Springsteen’s lyrics started taking on new layers of meaning. After he lost his mum to cancer, he paid tribute to her by performing Born in the U.S.A. (dressed as Bruce) in full on stage. Singing Dancing in the Dark live became a celebration of his mum’s life and gave Kieran a new sense of drive and focus.
“You can’t start a fire / You can’t start a fire without a spark” – Ian Gravell was driving to pick up his daughter from nursery on a snowy evening when a lorry appeared out of nowhere. He spent weeks in the hospital recovering from the crash and thought he might never walk again, until hospital staff played his favourite Springsteen album in the physiotherapy room and the lyrics compelled him to his feet.
