Baby Orca Plays with a Dog

14327says...

Actually this story has a tragic ending.
Luna was a young orca who got separated from his pod up here around Vancouver Island, Canada.
He took up residence in a bay outside a resource community where he became a celebrity with locals and tourists for activities like this. He would often play with boats or pop up near the piers to watch people.
Because orcas are social animals, he adopted humans as his family when his own family was unavailable.
Some thought it was cute, some thought it was annoying -- when killer whales play with boats they can do a lot of damage, however unintentionally.
Eventually, our Department of Fisheries came up with a plan to capture him and return him to his pod further south.
Regrettably, the stupid local native band decided that Luna was the re-incarnation of a recently deceased chief and they sabotaged the reunion efforts several times.
Luna was killed shortly after after he was torn up by boat props. Marine biologists figure he was probably playing with the boat in his usual manner and miscalculated the pull of the props.

14338says...

Ya, stupid local natives! I wish they would just let the DFO save them. The government has been doing this for decades in Canada and I don't see why they would stop now! I guess they don't know a good thing when they see it, some people.

budzossays...

Yup, just another example of religion interfering with critical thought, to the detriment of everything on the fucking planet. Honestly, every day I wake up with more and more contempt for religion.

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