Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by agent13 756 days ago
TLDR; its the orca equivalent of the latest tiktok trend.
5 comments

A few days ago, onion published a list of interviews with orcas. Only a few of them were motivated by TicTok.
The pod challenge?
Fifty years ago we would have explained it as religious worshipping behavior, now it's just for fun.
This would be 100 years ago. 50 years ago it would be action against imperialism.
Whale booping and sidehugs. Beware when they start planking.
Or the plot to Finding Nemo
A film literally about the consequences of a young fish 'booping' a boat.

Ah, is it because Orcas aren't fish?