[LostTrackHowM]

Sadly I can't recall the name of the book I read as a kid, but it was all about dangerous animals. The kind of stuff pre-teen boys are super into.

Well, I was hoping for adventure stories, but the book ended up being a dry and technical description of incidents. Yet, still interesting. One horror story I recall was of Orcas harassing an Inuit family in their canoe. And them having to throw one of their kids overboard to get away.

No idea idea if the stories in the book were real or made up. But just based on the dry and technical descriptions, part of me has always suspected they might have been real.

[satori99]

About a century ago on the south coast of New South Wales, A patriarch Orca named Old Tom teamed his pod up with human whalers to decimate the local baleen whale population.

He co-operated with 3 generations of a human whaling family before he died a natural death.

His skeleton remains on display in the local museum to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_(killer_whale)

edit: longer story about him;

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-lege...

[justinclift]

> No idea idea if the stories in the book were real or made up.

Hmmm. "If you don't behave, we'll give you to the Orcas..." sounds like the kind of thing some pissed off parents would tell their kids.

[bangonkeyboard]

"Sedna is a giant, the daughter of the creator-god Anguta, with a great hunger that causes her to attack her parents. Angered, Anguta takes her out to sea and throws her over the side of his kayak. As she clings to the sides, he chops off her fingers and she sinks to the underworld, becoming the ruler of the monsters of the deep. Her huge fingers become the seals, walruses, and whales hunted by the Inuit." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(mythology)