The killer whale is one of the most dangerous predators living in the oceans and seas. Even great white sharks try not to cross paths unnecessarily. The killer whale feeds on almost everything that it meets on the way. But almost never this predator eats people. Quite an interesting fact and another mystery of nature.
1. Interesting fact
Despite the fact that the killer whale is called a whale, it is a member of the dolphin family from the order of cetaceans. It turns out that this is a dolphin, only of a large size. In length, an adult female reaches five to seven meters and has a weight of up to 1,400-2,700 kilograms, and a male - six to eight meters and 3,600-5,400 kilograms.
In its natural habitat, this predator almost never attacks people. An attack, of course, is possible, but only in captivity, in the same oceanarium. But even in this case, a person must get too much of a killer whale for it to show aggression. Although she attacks not to harm, but more to scare. If a person has the appropriate training, then he can have a great time with her in the same aquarium.
It would seem that the swimmer is the easiest and most accessible prey. Then why is it of no interest to the killer whale? In fact, this fact remains a mystery to everyone, although there are several options for assumptions.
2. Versions of the “dislike” of a predator for a person
First of all, it should be immediately noted that this predator in general with people in the open sea intersects too rarely. Unlike, for example, a shark, he prefers deep waters and silence, rather than shallow water.
There is an assumption that killer whales do not perceive humans as prey. From early childhood, their parents taught them to hunt only known living creatures, so to speak, tested by many generations.
The second assumption concerns the gastronomic preferences of overgrown dolphins. That is, an intellectual predator does not understand the taste of human flesh. Someone once came across a tasteless person, and the memory of him remained for many generations.
Other scientists believe that killer whales are intelligent creatures. They are well aware that when eating people, they are threatened by revenge from the two-legged, and only something, but a person knows how to take revenge. Naturally, they do not need extra problems, so they bypass people whenever possible.
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Another version is also connected with the intelligence of killer whales, which perceive people as their own kind. That is, they are treated as intelligent beings, which means that there are such people, it seems, as it is inconvenient. Perhaps each of these versions has some truth. In fact, killer whales do not need to eat people if they do not want to. At all times, a meeting with this predator instilled fear in a person, which is not surprising.
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