HAHA...One smart killer whale.... OWNED!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - HAHA...One smart killer whale.... OWNED!

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:21:00 AM EDT

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - An enterprising young killer whale at Marineland has figured out how to use fish as bait to catch seagulls — and shared his strategy with his fellow whales.

"One day I noticed one of the young whales appeared to have come up with a procedure for luring gulls down to the pool," the professor said. "I found it interesting so I noted it in my log."

First, the young whale spit regurgitated fish onto the surface of the water, then sank below the water and waited.

If a hungry gull landed on the water, the whale would surge up to the surface, sometimes catching a free meal of his own.
Noonan watched as the same whale set the same trap again and again.

Within a few months, the whale's younger half brother adopted the practice. Eventually the behavior spread and now five Marineland whales supplement their diet with fresh fowl, the scientist said.

"It looked liked one was watching while the other tried," Noonan said of the whale's initial behavior.

The capacity to come up with the gull-baiting strategy and then share the technique with others — known as cultural learning in the scientific world — was once believed to be one of those abilities that separated humans from other animals.

But biologists have since proven certain animals, including dolphins and chimps, do this.

"This is an example in which a new behavior spread through a population," Noonan said. "We had the opportunity to see a tradition form and spread in exactly the way that cultures do in humans."

He first shared his research earlier this month at the U.S. Animal Behavior Society Conference in Utah. Since then, he said, his phone hasn't stopped ringing.
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Posted: 9/7/2005 8:23:34 AM EDT

[#1]

blame Canada

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:25:23 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
blame ~~Canada~~ Bush

Fixed!

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:25:56 AM EDT

[#3]

Amazing.

Of course, anyone who has been to Sea World has to admit that killer whales are smart animals.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:26:18 AM EDT

[#4]

Sweet! Maybe the Navy should've used Orcas for their biological weapons program instead of dolphins.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:26:21 AM EDT

[#5]

When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:30:41 AM EDT

[#6]

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Sweet! Maybe the Navy should've used Orcas for their biological weapons program instead of dolphins.

they all ready have them, and a few other types..

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:31:09 AM EDT

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When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:31:25 AM EDT

[#8]

I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:32:29 AM EDT

[#9]

You've got to be crazy to be one of the trainers that jump in the water with these orcas. Taste for blood is a bit un-nerving.

We're ok unless they can be zombie-ized. Then we're screwed.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:34:25 AM EDT

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they all ready have them, and a few other types..

Ah perfect, I can see a SEAL operator riding an Orca to shore with guns blazing!

And he's yelling, "Yo Joe!"

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:34:51 AM EDT

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I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

maybe not higher intelligence, but it for sure is intelligence.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:35:01 AM EDT

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I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

So almost no people are intelligent.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:35:28 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

I'm not sure I follow.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:38:28 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:39:38 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
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I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

I'm not sure I follow.

The monkey is smarter then.

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:49:22 AM EDT

[#16]

That's cool as hell.

Here's another Orca story with a graphic photo of a whale dying spewing blood everywhere (warning)

http://www.thememoryhole.org/whale-death.htm

Posted: 9/7/2005 8:56:40 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

I'm not sure I follow.

The monkey is smarter then.

Nevermind I see what he's saying now. The monkey would take the sand/rice mix and throw it in the water to seperate the sand and rice. From the way he worded it, it sounded like a researcher was throwing it in the water.

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:02:36 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
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When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

Man, I am still wiping the tears!

TRG

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:26:46 AM EDT

[#19]

I was at the Maui Ocean Center this summer and listened to a presentation on shark behavior. Apparently great white sharks have learned that there's tasty meat to be had in kayaks off the coast of California and Baja. There has been an increase in the number of missing kayakers and when the kayaks are recovered they're empty. Maybe it's all supposition but there have apparently been a couple verified attacks.

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:27:37 AM EDT

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Quoted:
When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

There is a sig line....................

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:30:02 AM EDT

[#21]

Have you all ever seen the video of the 2 killer whales killing the whale shark?

team work I tells ya

I'm not having any luck finding the video, but still looking.

anyone got the video?

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:34:32 AM EDT

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Have you all ever seen the video of the 2 killer whales killing the whale shark?

team work I tells ya

I'm not having any luck finding the video, but still looking.

anyone got the video?

I saw a Discovery special on Killer Whales. There's a Pod of these suckers that's learned to ride waves up onto the beach to catch seals. It's amazing to watch. I'm glad Humans aren't on their menu.

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:37:48 AM EDT

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I was at the Maui Ocean Center this summer and listened to a presentation on shark behavior. Apparently great white sharks have learned that there's tasty meat to be had in kayaks off the coast of California and Baja. There has been an increase in the number of missing kayakers and when the kayaks are recovered they're empty. Maybe it's all supposition but there have apparently been a couple verified attacks.

crosses sea kayaking off of the list of things to do

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:39:02 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

Or donuts...

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:42:27 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

It called observational learning and if you didn't do it yourself, you would probably be considered a moron.

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:42:48 AM EDT

[#26]

Orcas rule!

Posted: 9/7/2005 9:55:01 AM EDT

[#27]

All killer whales need to learn how to do this. The fewer sewer falcons (gulls) that we have, the cleaner our boats & beaches.

Posted: 9/7/2005 10:03:43 AM EDT

[#28]

There was a study years ago similar to this with dolphins

They had 2 captive dolphins in separate tanks where they could not SEE each other but they could hear each others 'noises'

on the wall of each tank was a grid of different shapes in different colors. they showed the one dolphin how to get food by pushing the one green triangle in with his nose. doing this worked like a candy machine and ejected a fish for the dolphin to eat. so every time it was hungry, it would go over and push teh button and get food

on the second dolphin they did nothing, just let it swim around. they were also monitoring the communication 'sounds' between the two and as the second dolphin became more and more hungry (not sure how long this took) the communication of clicks and other sonar stuff between the two increased and seemed to become more tense.

the second dolphin then went over to his identical panel of shapes/colors and pushed the green triangle and got his fish on the first try.

my dad told me this from an article he read years ago. this is what i remember, if anyone finds this actual story / article please post the link in this forum because i want it.

Posted: 9/8/2005 8:29:29 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
There was a study years ago similar to this with dolphins

They had 2 captive dolphins in separate tanks where they could not SEE each other but they could hear each others 'noises'

on the wall of each tank was a grid of different shapes in different colors. they showed the one dolphin how to get food by pushing the one green triangle in with his nose. doing this worked like a candy machine and ejected a fish for the dolphin to eat. so every time it was hungry, it would go over and push teh button and get food

on the second dolphin they did nothing, just let it swim around. they were also monitoring the communication 'sounds' between the two and as the second dolphin became more and more hungry (not sure how long this took) the communication of clicks and other sonar stuff between the two increased and seemed to become more tense.

the second dolphin then went over to his identical panel of shapes/colors and pushed the green triangle and got his fish on the first try.

my dad told me this from an article he read years ago. this is what i remember, if anyone finds this actual story / article please post the link in this forum because i want it.

I'd like to read that as well. interesting indeed.

Posted: 9/8/2005 8:35:44 AM EDT

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Orcas rule!

+1

I totally want to go diving off Vancouver island some summer, and try to see one in the water.

If I'm lucky, they're smart enough to tell the difference between a human in scuba gear and a seal. If not, I'll be just as famous as that idiot who got eaten by bears!

Posted: 9/8/2005 8:38:08 AM EDT

[#31]

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Have you all ever seen the video of the 2 killer whales killing the whale shark?

Whale sharks are toally harmless creatures - but I have seen a video of Orcas killing a humpback whale calf - by chasing the mother and calf until they were exhausted, and then drowning the calf by holding it underwater.

Smart animals.

Posted: 9/8/2005 8:44:28 AM EDT

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If I'm lucky, they're smart enough to tell the difference between a human in scuba gear and a seal. If not, I'll be just as famous as that idiot who got eaten by bears!

"Famous" wasn't the word most of us used to describe him.

Posted: 9/8/2005 8:48:02 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
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When the start spittin up Ribeye's, I'm screwed.

+2

Posted: 9/8/2005 8:57:19 AM EDT

[#34]

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Have you all ever seen the video of the 2 killer whales killing the whale shark? team work I tells ya I'm not having any luck finding the video, but still looking. anyone got the video?

I found an article where the mother Orca took one out for it's baby! www.cnn.com/EARTH/9710/08/whale.vs.shark/

Posted: 9/8/2005 9:10:35 AM EDT

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I remember reading about some kind of monkey. Some scientest threw rice in the sand, and one figured out they could throw handfuls of sand/rice in the ocean and the rice would float... scoop up and eat.

BTW, I don't think "Monkey see, monkey do" really counts as intelligence!

More intelligent than those that stayed in New Orleans!

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