• Sludgehammer
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      2 months ago

      I’m thinking more of a lure, have some nice rotten salmon smell leaking out of your “hat” and hope that some tasty fish, sharks or seals show up looking for a meal.

      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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        IIRC Orcas are one of the species that does shit that appears to have no biological advantage. Other species of dolphins do too.

        Dolphins as a whole have some really creative behaviors, especially in social circles. And it appears that they do these things “for the hell of it.”

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        Do they eat salmon? Maybe they are signaling to the humans that their ships and garbage are killing off their food.