Are they smarter than us?

I find Orcas very interesting. The alpha killing machine of the ocean that strikes fear into the heart of a great white shark and toys and torments its prey routinely, but there's no recorded killing of a human? To me that means there's some kind of impressive intelligence or guile there, maybe even oral history. Even if they are doing it they're doing it in very isolated, hidden ways, deliberately.

>>212762578 (OP)
No. They can never progress as far as humans because they have no hands, so that means an inability to build complex tools, and they live under the sea, so without land-based advantages like fire and accessible materials, they can't develop complex technology

>>212762578 (OP)
damn I thought blue whales and sperm whales were close in size but blue whales still mogg them pretty well. what kind of whale is the one below the blue whale?

>>212762578 (OP)
no
>>212762656
orcas are whale killers, sperm whale dislike orcas very much and messes with orcas hunting, sometimes body blocking orcas from their prey, there are recorded instance of a sperm whale defending a helpless seal for hours
orcas might be your funny predator of the oceans but they are quite cruel can be very psychotic, humans give them a pass but only whales know how terrible they really are, there are no instance of blue whale or sperm whale killing humans either, and they can easily with a swipe of their fins since they have so much barnacles on them

>>212762954
fin whale, modern day fins actually evolved from them

>>212762578 (OP)
no
show me one rocket or computer that they have built

>>212762578 (OP)
>Are they smarter than us?
Do they pay taxes ? No, so yes, they are smarter than us.

>>212762924
You are so pissed off that they'll never acknowledge the hall of costs kek

>>212763111
have any humans reached the bottom of the ocean?
>neither have whales
they have, you just don't know about it because as they are humble like that

>>212763253
Humans have reached far deeper than any whale could tho
>you just don't know about it because as they are humble like that
It's physically impossible for them to due so, their lungs would get crushed long before they'd reach there

>>212763253
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7_onr6O8os

our beer is already there and manned vehicles are coming. im pretty sure no whale could survive this depth

>>212763111
>>212762924
They are smarter than us but cannot build anything because they live underwater.

>>212762998

That's exactly why they are interesting though. Orcas are crazy, predatory, smart, plain mean in many cases. And yet they know to avoid humans. That's striking stuff. The other whales are nice in general so we wouldn't expect them to attack a human but Orcas you'd think would attack one regularly.

they are too smart for the food they each, which is mostly fish, they get bored so they start doing weird things, it's natural, they have few predators and since they are only aquatic there is no where for them to go, it's a depressing existence, once a while you might get a dolphin or orca too smart for their own good, venture too close to humans and get killed, such is life

>>212764044
they are dumb and gay

>>212764112
orcas are also very eusocial and matriarchic, so they are not like sharks, they are roamers and don't have a territory to defend, they also have very advanced emotional processors, long memory and such, humans are very body compared to the other foods they eat, there might be a passing of oral knowledge but they can also see that a human is very body, it mean it's not like they can chew very well either, also orcas's diet is 95% fish, when they hunt seals or penguins they do it cuz they are bored or some bonding thing

>>212764394
>very body
??

>>212764394
>body
bony*

i want bioengineering to get to the point we can give everything opposable thumbs
reckon that'll determine who's smart and who's not

my ancestor

>>212764872
koalas and opossum are not very smart so that's not the evolutionary advantage you think it is

>>212764872
Better: give people echolocation

>>212762578 (OP)
>>212762656
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>>212763182
make it international culture related or I WILL report the thread. do you understand?

>>212762656
>no recorded
I hate this sentiment to be frank. And this reason and sentence is always included when it comes to orcas

>>212764978
Those whales go through /int/ernational migration routes every year

>>212765068
I didn't ask you

>>212764978
Go back to your gay little twotter thread homo

>>212765155
lmao bodied that fat retard

>>212764978
(you), a land whale are now here thus making the thread /int/ related. thank you for your service

>>212762578 (OP)
They don't spend any time on 4chan, so yes.

>>212762656
Humans are too scrawny for orcas to be interested in eating us, they are extremely picky eaters

>>212765501
He must be so embarrassed rn I hope his attack by an orca will be the first recorded lethal and humiliating human torture Orcan-ritual.
If they’re so intelligent, sure they have rituals

>>212762578 (OP)
Yes.

>>212762578 (OP)
>they don't post on 4chan
You have your answer OP

What made you love whales? For me it was Moby Dick