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Johnny555 on Nov 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks

But fishing boats are (relatively) new to their environment -- Orcas have coexisted with sharks for ~10 million years.

It seems unlikely that they've just learned that behavior in the ~200 years we've been observing them scientifically

nikofeyn on Nov 19, 2017 [–]

i am not arguing about orcas eating sharks being new behavior. i was just pointing out that one of the most intelligent species on the planet learning major new behavior is not breathtakingly unlikely.

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