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[–] [email protected] 155 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Dude that author should be ashamed of themselves. How could you report on the topic and NOT provide a pic? Geesh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So they stretch it over their fin or what, how is it staying on

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Through sheer audacity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking, perhaps by sucking through the blowhole, but I haven't looked it up yet so don't trust me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does the blowhole do in? Would that not make it a suckhole? I am admittedly ignorant in whale anatomy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought the blowhole had reverse ?? like, this is what they breathe in through, isn't it ?

Apparently yes : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_(anatomy)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah it definitely must be, here I am thinking they're mouth breathers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It can go from suck to blow.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A jaunty chapeau! Perched just so!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

In my experience, finding a relevant image in an online article is a 50-50

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Makes sense. Fashion is cyclical.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Yeah, these young orcas today think they know it all. Always vandalizing yachts, and harassing the poor seals. I'm like just eat your food. Stop flinging it around.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ahh yes, MOGA. Make Ocean Great Again. Those guys.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This for some reason made me think of Anya Taylor Joy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

She could definitely pull of the look..

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a sign. People are going to start planking again.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm almost certain orcas have near human level intelligence but because of their lack of suitable appendages, this is their only way to show it.

They are trying to talk to us and we are too stupid to listen.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

"near human level intelligence" well, they are smarter then the average US citizen, that's for sure. I prefer to wear a dead salmon as a hat a million times over voting for Trump. It's the smarter choice. Orca's are like dolphins:

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Only 80s orcas will understand it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

"oh, so we stopped being weird and y'all still made anti planet governments in charge? okay. then we're going back to being weird and violent. fuck you"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Under water, with no hands, how are they getting the fish in place? And perhaps more difficult, how do they keep it there? Anyone aware of a video?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm completely guessing, are they able to create suction with their blowhole?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some people have posted pictures in the thread now, and it looks like you might be correct. Seems odd - the blowhole is analogous to a nostril. Sucking something against your nose a swimming seems like it would be uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fashion is almost always uncomfortable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Beauty is pain; and pain beauty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Correct! High heels are seldom comfortable and rarely rational.

Maybe the orcas are trying to show off that they are hard and can hold their breath longer?

[–] Mongostein 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re trying to show us the destruction we’re causing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jailbreak from the factory farm. "Quick, no time to explain! Pretend you're my hat!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Skibidy Salmon dum! dum! dum! yes! yes!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

'90's fashion is making a comeback here too, but damn... Didn't expect that to extend to the ocean

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its called fashion, look it up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So it's not just humans who are into the 80s…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It'll be the latest trend at the Orca's this year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Fashion is cyclical, as they say.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Its not a phase mom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fish being cruel to eachother, it's the same everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, they are technically fish. Just like we and all other tetrapods are

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's basically impossible to have a complete phylogenetic tree of bacteria and how they relate to eachother vs how they relate to common ancestors with the original eukaryotes let alone multicellular complex life. Prokaryotes as far as I know are seen as being a completely different branch more related to eachother than any eukaryotes so no, not really. Fish are a much more problematic group to exclude tetrapods from because bony fish like trouts, tuna etc are significantly more closely related to the tetrapods than either are to sharks and the other cartilagenous fish, all of which are more closely related to eachother than to the jawless fish like hagfish and lampreys.

Tldr, if both trout and sharks are fish then monophyletically people also fall under the category of "jawed fish"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A trend every Destiny player understands and agrees with.

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